A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
My (face) cheeks are still a wee bit sore (in a good way), several hours after seeing 2hoots Productions’ one-man stand-up show slash photography exhibit, Pretending Things Are A Cock, part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Produced by a new Halifax-based company Transitus, How Often Do I Dream is an intimate, touching performance about memory loss. Performed by Katie Dorian as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, this multi-sensory session at the Tarragon Theatre Solo Room gives us stories about Dorian’s grandfather’s dementia, and it also includes singing, tasting, smelling and touching–by the audience.
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Pace Theatre Toronto, co-founded by Andrea Hluscu and Meghan Jones, makes its Toronto Fringe Festival debut with their dark comedy Cut-Throat: The Isolation of Ambition. The play is written by Hluscu in collaboration with Jones and Pace Theatre Toronto Company and explores the question, how far will you go and what are you willing to do to make your dreams come true?
I’ve always been a big fan of the art of burlesque and when I saw that a burlesque performance featuring the ladies from Love Letters Cabaret would grace the Al Green Theatre stage during the Toronto Fringe, I was thrilled. Having seen the performance, I honestly have to say that I’m rather conflicted. The actual burlesque in Becoming Burlesque is smoking hot, however the story itself has me feeling lukewarm.
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Mixed Chick is a one woman Toronto Fringe show, written & performed by Toronto’s Coko Galore. The opening performance was nearly sold-out, and those assembled were very energetic and responsive to Galore and her material. This beautifully arranged, funny and well-articulated show explores the politics of identity in the life of a biracial woman whose ancestry is proudly African AND Chinese. Surrounded by those who seek to categorize and limit her, she strives to make her way in the world in a manner that feels personally authentic.
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