A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
An emotionally moving, clowning look at doing a Fringe show, Bad Baby Presents: Rules Control the Fun produced by Lark & Whimsy Theatre Collective was an delightful surprise!
It’s Bad Baby’s (Janelle Hanna) first time at the 2017 Toronto Fringe and she’s not clowning around… well kind of. She has set up all the rules to deliver a hit show, but as she runs late to her own production, all of her rules become harder to follow.
Mutts or: 101 Libations
produced by Gracie May Theatre Company is playing at the 2017 Toronto Fringe. Warren and Bruce are long time buddies and fellow alcoholic dog-nappers. They both find themselves at rock bottom, ready to give up their lives of crime and their friendship. As their last heist goes awry, they come face to face with the consequences of their addictions and unhealthy relationship.
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The Old Wolf and the Sacred Trout, presented by Arbez Drama Projects playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a movement/dance piece that follows a wolfpack in the woods. The performers in the piece had such flawless beauty; I couldn’t even imagine moving my body in that way. With very few vocal notes, aside from a few sentences that weren’t in English, the piece was a stringent display of movement.
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Seasons produced by Sol Express playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is not your typical Fringe show. Most of the performers are members of L’Arche Toronto, a community of people with intellectual disabilities who live and work together. In Seasons, they explore life through the lens of the four seasons in an hour of movement, music, poetry, film, and clown. It’s an incredibly moving work.
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Wanted, produced by Guayoyo Creative Collective, is a one-woman clown show playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Although Mélanie Raymond offers an energetic performance, I thought the uneven tone and (in my opinion) problematic echoes of this play made it difficult to enjoy.
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