A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
It takes an incredibly likeable person to entertain you for an hour straight without getting on your nerves. Luckily, Zabrina Chevannes’ extreme likability, combined with some of the most outrageous anecdotes I have ever heard, renders her one-woman show A Nurse’s Worst Nightmare a more than palatable production at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading A Nurse’s Worst Nightmare (A Nurse’s Worst Nightmare) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Who in their right minds would try to turn Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a puppet show for kids? Shakey-Shake and Friends would, offering Hamlet…A Puppet Epic! at Toronto FringeKids! 2015.
When you first walk into the Randolph Centre for the Performing Arts’ Annex Theatre during the Toronto Fringe, you are struck by a musty darkness. Tonight was a little different though. Although the smell was still there, the stage was not barren. Rather, it was populated by a half-naked DJ, pumping the jams in high heels and a gold lame mask, ready to celebrate Big Love. And that’s when the party started.
Continue reading Big Love (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
18: Foursome Majeure by Church Basement Amateurs is a light comedy and a not-so-light satire set against the backdrop of a golf course, being shown at Toronto Fringe 2015. The relationships portrayed in the performance definitely had more than 18 holes. The performances didn’t, and they are what I liked the most about this show.
Continue reading 18: Foursome Majeure (Church Basement Amateurs) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
One play making its appearance in this year’s Toronto Fringe is OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Darryl. The latest staging of the one-man show performed by comedian Darryl Pring in the Robert Gill Theatre, OCD portrays Pring’s struggles with mental illness. What were these struggles? Did Pring recover, and if so, how? What does it mean to be “crazy”? With a guitar, a nifty video projector, and his own charisma as a performer, Pring answers these shows and others, making OCD a show that informs and delights.
Continue reading OCD — Obsessive Compulsive Darryl (A Pring Thing) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review