A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Lucking into seeing The Theatre Elusive’s A Bitter Shrew at the Tarragon Theatre Solo Room during The 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival apparently made some of my fellow reviewers a tad bit jealous!
After seeing the hilariously honest, touching, and slightly risqué one-woman patriarchy-smashing show, I can understand why. The good news: you still have time to catch it!
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Dinner becomes a family’s bone of contention in Gnaw by Birch Stone Theatre and Theatre Mies playing at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace as part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Eerie and atmospheric Gnaw is a Hansel and Gretel retelling you won’t soon forget.
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Postcard Theatre brings That Joyce Girl, a one woman show written and performed by Kate Cattell-Daniels, to the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival at the Factory Theatre Mainspace.
The play focuses on Lucia Joyce, daughter of literary master James Joyce, and her struggles with his increasing fame, her desire to dance and her lifelong battle with mental illness. The story of this woman is extremely dramatic and therefore perfect for the stage, but why did I come out of the theatre not feeling completely moved?
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Here’s what I can say about How May I Mate You? (at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 2016 Toronto Theatre Festival) — the group of sixteen-year-olds beside me LOVED it. They laughed at all the jokes, and left the theatre chattering happily about how much they’d liked it. Maybe I’m just too old for this show, but I never really got any better than “mildly amused” during this hour-long performance.
Continue reading How May I Mate You? (The Poorhouse Players) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
I’ll be honest. This was my first time attending the Toronto Fringe Festival so I didn’t know what to expect. Walking into the theatre to see Michelle/Ryan’s “Ze”: Queer as f*ck!, I realized that I probably wasn’t expecting a very spry person wearing a jockey harness and big purple dildo doing stretches on the floor.
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