A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
“You can’t be that attractive and funny” — well, not unless you’re Caitlin Robson and Eric Miinch. Catch the comedic duo in Caitlin & Eric Are Broken Up, produced by Squeaky Wheel, and playing now at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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The play Motherland, a show put on by Amber Heart Productions currently running in the Toronto Fringe Festival at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, takes a hard look at the complicated relationship people in our globalized world can have with their homelands. Young Armenian actor and musician Davit finds himself faced with a hard choice, between the poor homeland he loves and the wider world with its terrifying openness.
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Perhaps you were not aware, as I was not before going to see Pineapple Club, that “comedic dance” was a thing. After Robin Henderson Company’s 2017 Toronto Fringe show, I can tell you for sure that it is, and that it’s both delightful and hilarious, and that I have almost no idea what Pineapple Club was about, and I don’t really care.
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The Miserable Worm is a modern reimagining of Anton Chekov’s first untitled play (often called Platonov). It’s being put on by Let Me In Theatre at the Toronto Fringe Festival. That original piece has a runtime of about five hours, is apparently very nuanced, and to be honest I didn’t know anything about it going into this.
The Miserable Worm follows Platonov, played by the show’s creator Justine Christensen, an intellectual who’s gathered her friends for a weekend of debauchery in celebration of her birthday. Christensen gives us an aloof, arrogant, and deeply selfish character who ruthlessly turns her friends against her over the course of the show.
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There’s a lot happening in Love and Information, produced by the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Featuring a talented ensemble cast, this play is structured as a series of unconnected short scenes. There’s much to enjoy in this well-acted, polished production — as long as you’re not looking for a linear narrative.
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