A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Disengaged is a comedic and truthful retelling of Efthimios Nasiopoulos’s love life from age eight onwards. Disengaged is produced by Efthimios and is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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A Magic Show by Rebecca Rose Productions at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival is a bare bones magic show. Little grandeur, little story, and little character make this a cute experience. A pleasant nod seems the appropriate response to this mixed bag of tricks.
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Three Dates and a Flooded Basement, happening at the Factory Theatre Studio for the Toronto Fringe Festival 2017 makes me feel very nervous about going anywhere alone for the next week. Even so, it’s a very entertaining show that isn’t what you’d expect.
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The Food Project, produced by Theatre By Committee, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, understands that it’s hard to talk about the convoluted ethical quagmire that comprises the choice of what we eat daily. After all, eating, they acknowledge, is one of the things we do most, and it’s one thing we can’t stop doing if we want to stay alive. It’s particularly hard to talk about this type of ethical choice without being didactic, the death knell of effective theatre everywhere.
The actors, therefore, deliver their lecture with a wink, obviously aware that a show on this topic can never quite lose the aspect of well-meaning lecture. There are a lot of hard truths to digest here, but they’re sure portrayed as entertainingly as possible.
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White Wedding was such an uncommonly cool theatrical experience. Playing in the upstairs hallway of the Artscape Youngplace, this Toronto Fringe show is a site specific piece that used its space to its advantage. The show explores unrequited love, the ways in which nostalgia can affect our choices and memories, and whether or not love actually conquers all.
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