A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
What if the CN tower was obliterated in a sudden attack? What if an unknown force laid siege to Toronto and advanced neighbourhood by neighbourhood to root out its citizens? Toronto’s Theatre Lab explores this apocalyptic scenario with their Toronto Fringe Festival production Centre of the Universe. Continue reading Centre of the Universe (Theatre Lab) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
Theatre Howl’s production of Aiden Flynn Lost His Brother So He Makes Another plays at the Tarragon Extraspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s an inventive and touching little show, a truly great start to my Fringing.
This show tells a tale of a young boy who tries to help his family heal from a tragedy by creating a brother from scraps found on their farm. It cleverly riffs on the familiar Frankenstein’s monster but this story’s intentions are quite different and the echoes from Shelley’s classic are light and airy.
The Wishes Mystical Theatre Company production of The Devil’s Circus at the Toronto Fringe Festival is an endearing love story with spectacle to spare. The hour-long puppet show is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, blended with the Christian story of The Fall of Man, and set in a circus. In this fractured fairy tale, Orpheus the tightrope walker drops Eurydice to her death, where she meets and falls in love with the devil.
Continue reading The Devil’s Circus (The Wishes Mystical Theatre Company) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
HAPPY FRINGE! The Toronto Fringe Festival opens today with over a hundred theatre productions performing from now until July 13. Here at Mooney on Theatre, we’ll have our full Fringe coverage complete by Friday so be sure to check in regularly for reviews to help secure your Fringe picks. Don’t forget to book your tickets in advance as 100% of the tickets to each show are available for pre-sale this year.
But wait! Here’s your chance to check out some great theatre for free on Day 3 of our Fringe for Free contest!
For every day of the festival, we’ll be giving out tickets to 5 shows. Exciting, right? What’s even more exciting is how easy it is to enter – you can enter each of the five contests by sending us an email (more details below).
Remember, you need to enter each contest individually. If we pick your name, you’ve got two tickets heading your way.
Check out the list of the 5 shows playing on Friday July 4th after the break.
If I had to sum up Great Battles in History by Mark Shyzer at the Toronto Fringe Festival in one word, I would call it an experience. This touching, hilarious, one-man show tells the story of a failed collaborative project that examined great historical battles from a futuristic perspective. Without giving much away, the story of the steadily declining production crew coupled with historical tidbits about past warlords reveals the significance of individual losses.
Continue reading Great Battles in History (Mark Shyzer) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review