A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Macbeth Muet is a bloody mess, but it’s a bloody good mess. La Fille Du Laitier has brought their silent adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the Toronto Fringe Festival, and it’s a fun, wacky, smart sight to see.
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It’s a tall order for one person to tackle a couple dozen characters in one show. And in Magical Mystery Detour by Gemma Wilcox at the Toronto Fringe Festival you’ll see it being done quite beautifully.
This is a touching show about a woman on a solo road trip at the end of a very long and trying year. It is at times funny and heartbreaking, and Magical Mystery Detour is one of the most impressive Fringe shows I’ve seen.
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Written, produced, and starred in by Mia Raye Smith, I Am Hope, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is an autobiographical account about what it is like to live with mental illness, how to deal with anxiety, and the struggle that comes with it on a day to day basis.
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Becoming Me, produced by Something In The Six Theatre Company, is a touching original musical about the struggles of depression as seen through the eyes of Andrew, a high-strung twenty-something who moves out of his abusive father’s house in search of independence, only to get diagnosed with a mental illness soon after.
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Theatre by the River‘s 4.48 Psychosis feels like a 60-minute suicide note. It should, given that it was the final work that British playwright Sarah Kane wrote before she took her own life. As such, it’s not for the faint of heart: the Toronto Fringe Festival production explores the tormented thoughts looming in the mind of a severely depressed woman. It drowns you in the twisted, isolated, and bittersweet mindset that comes with major depression. There are funny and charming moments to this poetry of self-disgust, but somehow this portrayal of deep emotional turmoil ultimately left me numb.
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