A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Not Enough, a one-person show starring Megan Phillips currently running in the Toronto Fringe Festival at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace, is a powerful show. Phillips’ compelling performance as a person trying to save herself through a ten-day meditation retreat, built on a heartbreakingly frank script and supported by inventive sound design, is a must-see.
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Falling Angel produced by RealSpace Theatre is a site-specific show performing at Shaw Park, next to the CAMH campus on Queen West, as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Written by Erica Wood and Bruce Hunter, the show is described in the Fringe program as “part contemporary vaudevillian comedy with a little existentialist dilemma and a few musical numbers of sorts thrown in.” If that description sounds vague and a bit unfocused, the show matches.
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Did you see the Facebook invitation? Are you going to the party? You’ll definitely want to join the fun at The Monarch Tavern for Maddie’s Karaoke Birthday Party, produced by Charcoal Sketch Productions at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading Maddie’s Karaoke Birthday Party (Charcoal Sketch Productions) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
High Park Noir, produced by Simply Twisted Productions, embraced the night by opening late at 10:30pm at the Toronto Fringe Festival. I found it a fascinating take on the noir genre, focusing on a group of quirky but loveable animals caught up in corruption, murder, and condo development.
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It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To, written and produced by Jamie Black and playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, isn’t particularly bawdy, as the title might suggest. Instead, it’s a sweet, earnest show about gender roles, far more Lesley Gore than Lady Gaga in tone (though the latter is what’s on the soundtrack). It’s charming and heartfelt, but feels oddly unfinished, a bit like the conversation about gender itself.
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