A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Folk Lordz: Warriors & Fools surprised me. I expected the kind of storytelling you get where someone stands and tells you things – I figured this (at Factory Studio) would be a two-person version. Instead, it’s…well? It’s a Cree-Yiddish improvised cultural storytelling (#becausefringe). And it’s a real treat.
Continue reading Folk Lordz: Warriors & Fools (Rapid Fire Theatre) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Wow! Two firsts for me. My first Sky Gilbert play and the first time I’ve seen David Benjamin Tomlinson. The play was Toller playing at Tarragon Theatre Extraspace as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival. I loved it. Except for the part I didn’t love.
It’s a beautiful production. The set is gorgeous: a wicker chair draped in long flowing white fabric, a small table with a candelabra, a wine decanter and wineglass, and a small heart-shaped box of chocolates. Continue reading Toller (Toller-on-the-run Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
On Alice’s sixteenth birthday, her father Frank, a celebrity self-help guru, dies in a car crash on the way to her celebration. Alice tries to navigate her life and find some meaning in it by questioning and exploring her complicated relationship with him, and the family, friends and acquaintances that surround her. Life After, from the Life After Collective, is a beautiful new musical making its stage debut at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Continue reading Life After (The Life After Collective) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
WILD/SOCIETY by star star theatre at The Tarragon Theatre is an environmental awareness-raising addition to the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016.
Continue reading WILD/SOCIETY (star star theatre) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert is a play put on by 3 Ducks in a Row Productions for the Toronto Fringe Festival. It follows a pair of friends, stranded in the desert after their car breaks down on a road trip. This was the most traditional performance I have watched at Fringe this year; it didn’t try to reinvent a new way of storytelling, so it was still familiar and easy to follow. It was supposed to be a production by and for women, but to me it seemed to have missed the mark.