Fringe Festival

A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.

Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Tuesday, July 7

fringe-for-free-graphicPhew! First week’s over and we here at MoT have been working around the clock seeing shows, Fringe-ing it up and getting all shows reviewed so you can browse at your leisure and find the ones that pique your fancy.

If you need us, we’ll be sleeping…or at the beer tent. Probably at the beer tent.

But, Fringe for Free continues today with another five shows under the cut that we’re giving away a pair of tickets to. We’re doing this every day until Friday July 10 so keep checking back for new shows and keep entering. It’s easy to do! Send an email to us with the show’s title in the subject line and that’s your entry in the contest. Remember, one email per show so if you want to enter for all five shows, you need to send five separate emails.

But without further a do, keep reading for the five shows playing on Tuesday, July 7.

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Klondyke: Stand Up Straight From The Yukon (Jenny Hamilton) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Jenny Gold from Yukon Gold ComedyIt takes a big personality to fill the Tarragon Mainspace, and also a big crowd. While Jenny Hamilton didn’t have the latter for her 11pm show of Klondyke: Stand Up Straight From The Yukon at the Toronto Fringe Festival, she certainly has the former. Possessing the classic Yukon values around propriety and the vocabulary to match, Hamilton takes us on a whirlwind that starts with an encounter with a homeless Tim Gunn-wannabe on a Toronto sidewalk and finishes… at the gynecologist’s office. There are plenty of laughs in between.

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Gavin Crawford: “Friend” “Like” #Me (Idlemind Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

Gavin Crawford

When I first got the press materials for Gavin Crawford: “Friend” “Like” #Me, I was nervous: comedy about the Selfie Generation usually takes the form of smug indignation about Kids These Days With Their Apps, hyuck hyuck hyuck. But Crawford’s Toronto Fringe Festival show takes it in a completely new direction, culminating in a rallying cry for those of us who aren’t ashamed to “get” technology. Continue reading Gavin Crawford: “Friend” “Like” #Me (Idlemind Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

I Love You, Judy Merril (House of James) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Jim SmithJudy Merril, pioneering female science fiction writer of the 1950s, anthologist, and dissident, seems like a fascinating thinker who is unfairly being forgotten after her death in 1997. Unfortunately, I felt I learned more about her from the attractively-designed program than I did from  I Love You, Judy Merril (House of James) Jim Smith’s one-man Toronto Fringe Festival show, which is well-intentioned, but only orbits its subject.  Continue reading I Love You, Judy Merril (House of James) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

A Drop of Water (Slice of Pi) Toronto Fringe 2015 Review

Cast photo from press kit

Gwen is dead, and three loved ones — her sister, best friend, and girlfriend — mourn her. Drawing inspiration from imagery of waterfalls, A Drop of Water conjures forth parallels and convergences between these three women, and knits them together through monologues to tell a story of grief, memory, and the bonds which tie us together. It’s heavy stuff for a Toronto Fringe Festival show, and while the performance is watchable, the chosen devices can’t quite bear the strain of this ambitious project.

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