A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Despite the best efforts of its cast, Man & Son’s production of Man & Son: Ladies First at the Toronto Fringe Festival simply didn’t evoke much enthusiasm in its audience. Unfortunately, at the performance I attended, there wasn’t much laughter at this comedy.
Continue reading Man & Son: Ladies First (Man & Son) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Neil McArthur wants to freeze your head and make you live forever. As part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016 at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, Let Me Freeze Your Heard is a convincing call for cryonic preservation. Attend this info-session for more information about how this service can buy you more time on earth. Continue reading Let Me Freeze Your Head (Neil McArthur) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Evolution / Mr. Truth is a dance-theatre double bill, currently playing at the Randolph Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. The first half-hour’s show, the dance show Evolution, choreographed by Angela Blumberg, is a fluid exploration of change through dance. The second half-hour show, the Lester Trips group’s Mr. Truth, makes use of dark comedy to explore the ugly and uncomfortable elements in modern sexuality.
Continue reading Evolution / Mr. Truth (Angela Blumberg and Lester Trips) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Far Away is a fable about a world where war has so thoroughly consumed the planet that nature itself has begun to take sides: the cats are in cahoots with the Argentinians, the river is working with the dentists, and nobody is totally sure where gravity’s loyalties lie.
Caryl Churchill‘s script is fiercely abstract, set over fifteen years and sprawling as large as the director allows. This Toronto Fringe production finds its anchor in movement, threading careful choreography through every scene and moment, which makes this production a joy to watch –and peculiarly accessible.
Continue reading Far Away (PreShow Playlist) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Asiansploitation is a local comedy institution: an all-Asian company which strives to create work for audiences who — except for nerds and “kooky ethnics” — rarely get to see themselves in comedy spaces.
Be More Pacific (their new revue, running at the Toronto Fringe Festival) continues their legacy of exploring all facets of life from an explicitly Asian-Canadian perspective: identity, culture, authenticity, ancestry and modern living are all on the table. Continue reading Asiansploitation: Be More Pacific (Asiansploitation) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review