A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Despite what the cover photo may lead you to believe, MEANT is a comedy musical that follows two new parents as they find out that the Fates have made a huge mistake in planning their lives. MEANT is produced by Under Pressure Productions and is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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The “F” Word, produced by SaMel Tanz, is a dance show that celebrates being a woman in all of it’s glory — bras and all. Everything from Modern technique to Argentine Tango to Krump was explored, each number having it’s own unique approach to a different topic surrounding feminism.
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In Hyena Supbpoena, written and produced by Cat Kidd, and playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, the writer/performer stalks about the stage like a predator sizing up her captive audience. She opens by telling us that, were she able to be a hybrid, she would choose to be part hyena. In other languages, the word for hyena also means to vacillate or be in flux, changeable or metamorphic. This state is celebrated in Kidd’s wending, mesmeric piece; derided for their strange laughs, ugly visages and unusual anatomy, we find hyenas are actually practical, efficient, and above all, intense.
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Aptly titled, SELF-ish, now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, reminds us that some stories are not just about you. It reminds us too that who we are is more than just ourselves. In this one-woman show, we encounter Esther Jin (Diana Bang), the complicated relationship she has with her parents, and the even more troubling ways in which she tries to grapple with loss and grief.
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What would you do if you could turn back time? As it turns out, there are only so many ways humanity can profoundly change the course of history. When time travel hits the open market, it’s not long before everyone’s already done the good stuff. Someone’s already gotten to Hitler, so why not go back and change something a little more low-stakes? Like, say, the course of a beleaguered actor’s career? Such is the set-up of Bugger the Butterfly, a quirky and winning Twilight Zone-style comedy by Pencil Neck Theatre that’s currently playing as part of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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