A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Continue reading Twelfe Night, Or what you will (Ale House Theatre Co.) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Life Records, by Beefman Jones Productions, is a one-woman show performed by Rhiannon Archer as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Part stand-up comedy and part confessional, the show is an exploration of how the music we listen to affects our lives, in which Archer delves into stories from her own life as comedic and eclectic examples.
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In Morro and Jasp do Puberty, presented as part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, clown sisters Morro (Heather Marie Annis) and Jasp (Amy Lee) are going through puberty, a time when everything is awkward and nothing is certain. Puberty might be unsure of itself, but this duo is anything but; having toured their shows at Fringe for almost a decade, they are masters of the craft. They have exquisite timing, hilarious dialogue, and a stubborn streak of empathy and melancholy that makes this show more than just a good time. Continue reading Morro and Jasp do Puberty (Up Your Nose and In Your Toes Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Have you ever, in your long and lucky life, met someone who just smiled at you and somehow their smile hit you right in the heart? I have. But never has such complicated, raw, needy nonsense ensued as is acted out in Skunkweed, my first Toronto Fringe show of 2015 (playing at Theatre Passe Muraille in the Mainspace). This production of Skunkweed, an Eric Bogosian play, is 100% Bogosian in plot (sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll) and in theme: what would happen if you stopped behaving as you were supposed to, and did what you wanted instead? Continue reading Skunkweed (Triple ByPass Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Four girls, one junky car, and infinite possibilities: be they sexual awakenings, post-grad anxieties, or your typical mid-20s identity crisis. That’s the basic premise of Out of the Blue Theatre Company’s Rounding the Bend, a new musical playing at the Robert Gill Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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