2 Man No-Show: Frozens (Zoot Zoot Productions) features Toronto Fringe veterans Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall. A last minute addition to this year’s festival, 2 Man No-Show: Frozens is a fully improvised affair this time around. Truth be told, I’m not exactly sure what I ended up watching. I have no idea what the theme of this show was and the improv wasn’t all that great. In fact, this show would probably land in the top 5 of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. And I absolutely loved it.
First things first – this isn’t a show about the mayor of Toronto. The Robert Ford in the title is the man who killed Jesse James. You probably recognize “dirty little coward” from the folk song Jesse James. The show is the story of Ed O’Kelley, the man who killed Ford.
As I walked into Citizenry, a boutique on Queen West where Criminal Theatre is presenting their site-specific show True, there was an actor playing the piano built into the bar. His playing continued until the reveal of the first sister of a trio and the introduction of the main question in the play. Can you change your memories to change the result; the past’s future. Every year there’s a handful of good dramas presented at the Toronto Fringe Festival. This is one of them. Continue reading True (Criminal Theatre in association with Aluna Theatre) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review→
It’s a little unfair for a seasoned comedian, writer and performer like Briane Nasimok to have his show Confessions of an Operatic Mute in the Toronto Fringe Festival, along with every other schmendrik in Toronto who woke up one morning and thought perhaps they had a show in them and $742 to spend.
The cavernous George Ignatieff Theatre was more than half full for the opening on a Wednesday, no doubt filled by fans and friends of Nasimok who arrived to hear stories of wordlessness and wooing among the supernumeraries of the Canadian Opera Company for most of the 1970s.
