A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Sometimes comedy needs a measure of heartbreak to make it perfect. Or maybe heartbreak needs comedy to make it bearable. Either way, comedian Franco Nguyen’s solo show, soaring in liquid skies, (FraGu Productions) playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is the perfect mixture of both. Continue reading soaring in liquid skies (FraGu Productions) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
Confidential Musical Theatre Project produced by The Confidential Project performing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival is one of those gimmicky concept shows you’ll often see at Fringe. Individual cast members are given scripts and scores then sworn to secrecy about the show and their part in it. They show up and perform with no prior knowledge of who they’ll be performing with and with no rehearsal. The audience comes not having a clue as to which musical they’ll see.
On a distant island awash in magic, an airy sprite and a tortured mortal meet and form a strange friendship. Together, the two negotiate the meaning of freedom while a distant threat looms over the island: Prospero, the infamous magician from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Theatre Arcturus‘s Rough Magic takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and gives it the Wicked treatment for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, imagining a potential friendship between The Tempest‘s supporting characters Ariel and Caliban.
Oh, and aerial acrobatics. That part’s important.
Continue reading Rough Magic (Theatre Arcturus) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
Magic to the Future, produced by The Great & Powerful Tim and performing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a magic show with a plot: a hapless magician’s assistant from the future is sent back in time and tasked with saving the world by … putting on a magic show.
Yes, it’s goofy as all Hell but the premise works and the show is actually a lot of fun. Continue reading Magic to the Future (The Great & Powerful Tim) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
ECM Theatre’s production of Nourishment is a must-see at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s a wonderfully conversational and inviting experience into the many strengths and frustrations of what it means to be a female in 2017. You should go, especially if you’re tired of talking about feminism. Continue reading Nourishment (ECM Theatre) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review