This is a hard one. Shadowlands, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, ended quite a few hours ago and I’m still staring into space deciphering what I just saw. On the surface, it’s one of those non-linear pieces of storytelling where each bit and piece at first glance makes absolutely no sense until you follow the rabbit hole to the end.
Only thing is, this story is also told in darkness with shards of concentrated light meant to direct your attention for a bizarre and intriguing effect.
True North Mixtape, produced by Edge of Sky Theatre, is performing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. This is the newest show from the production company behind monster Fringe hits like Summerland and The Fence. At this point we pretty much know what to expect from them; fantastic musical performances, polished group dance numbers and an impossibly large cast of fresh-faced young performers. Once again, the team delivers, big time.
What does it mean to be in your 20s in the 2010s? Writer Rose Napoli offers an earnest response to this question at the Toronto Fringe Festival with Theatre Rhea and Neoteny Theatre‘s joint production of Ten Creative Ways to Dispose of Your Cremains. Napoli stars as Lucy alongside Jakob Ehman’s Bennett in this story of two ambitious 20-somethings who meet at a party and later spend an evening together, having intimate conversations and eating popsicles.
In his wisdom, the Great and Wise Vladimir Putin (democratically-elected leader of the free world) has dispatched Vasily Djokavich: Russia’s #1 State Approved Comedian on a cultural exchange to the Toronto Fringe Festival. He has brought many laughs, many tears, and also possibly potato! (There is not actually potato: is old Russian joke!)
Was he or wasn’t he? Was that a surrogate or was it Clark with a bucket and a tiny monitor on his head? I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only person in the audience watching 
In his wisdom, the Great and Wise Vladimir Putin (democratically-elected leader of the free world) has dispatched