Pardon Me Cow by Farm Fresh Productions, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a fast-paced one man show about growing up, and coming out, on the farm. When his family leaves town for greener pastures, Taylor Scott’s life gets turned upside-down: stripped of the modest luxuries of town life, he finds himself crushing on the dishy veterinarian, mastering his farmer’s blow, and befriending Nadia, a cow who may or may not be a bit of a queer steer herself.
I hit the door of the Al Green Theatre for my first show of the Toronto Fringe, The Urinal Dialogues, full of enthusiasm.
As a gender-studies enthusiast and former bar employee, my experience with all genders of washrooms is vast; I also recently saw and reviewed Queer Bathroom Stories for this site. I was perhaps more enthusiastic than I’ve ever been to be faced with a row of urinals. My excitement, regrettably, did not last.
A late-Victorian week on the Thames isn’t my idea of a good time, but luckily I’ve got Pea Green Theatre Group’s Three Men in a Boat to keep me company, and what a ride it becomes. Easily one of the finest pieces you’ll see in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, it surprised and delighted its opening-night audience (a sell-out crowd, I might add), blending clever movement, innovative text and language, and a deep knack for physical comedy into one of the best things I’ve seen on stage in a good long while.
I hit the door of the Al Green Theatre for my first show of the Toronto Fringe, 