A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
I laughed. I cried. There were sex jokes galore, and tales of blowjobs gone horribly, horribly wrong. Mostly I watched one woman’s heartfelt story of finding love, and herself – with the help of a children’s book and potent hallucinogens – in Dance Naked Productions’ performance of Lust & Marriage, part of Toronto Fringe Festival’s 2015 lineup. Continue reading Lust & Marriage (Dance Naked Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
HEADLESS/The Play by Marbles Theatre is currently playing at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace for this year’s Fringe Festival. The title is a bit misleading, since the show is less of a grim murder mystery and more of a comedy. The show (directed by Bruce Hunter and written by Tommy Jeff McAteer) is based on a real 2014 George Brown playwrighting class, and centres around the meta-commentary of the nature of writing, acting and theatre.
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You Know I Know by Fourth Gorgon Theatre, playing at the Toronto Fringe, is not just a performance — it is an experience. It started as unexpectedly as it ended and made me feel like I was an integral part of it from beginning to end. Continue reading You Know I Know (Fourth Gorgon Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
It’s tough to be a girl, especially when you’ve got world domination on the mind. So claims Shevil, the comic-book musical playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse during Toronto Fringe, about a female supervillain and her struggles against good and the sexist world she lives in. What’s even worse, though, is to see the genuine potential in such a strong premise mostly go to waste.
Continue reading Shevil: The Musical (Comic Shop Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
What annoys you the most about people? When they bail on plans? Or text and drive? Whatever it is, it’s probably featured as a musical number in People Suck, the Nutmeg Creations’ hilarious musical playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. People Suck doesn’t have a plot or storyline. It’s a collection of songs that revolve around one theme: all the ways in which people are the worst.
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