A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
We live in a fame-obsessed culture. The popularity of the Kardashians and Paris Hilton point to the fact that we somehow value fame as a legitimate goal in and of itself. Nobody’s Idol presented by Alexandra Lean as part of the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival attempts a satirical examination of our society’s fetishization of fame. Continue reading Nobody’s Idol (Alexandra Lean Productions) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review
I admit it. I went to see Fuck Shakespeare because of the title. It’s certainly going to draw a larger audience than ‘Orihime and Hikoboshi meet Shakespeare’s vixens’.
It’s a play within a play – very Shakespearean – about two young men who are putting together a play. As the writer writes they both slip into the play he’s writing.
Continue reading Fuck Shakespeare (Argentan Heart Productions) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review
Alex Nussbaum’s Handbook to the Future: A Brave New Worrier, a thought-provoking play about the future of humans and technology at the Toronto Fringe Festival, proves that creator and performer Alex Nussbaum really does know about what we humans should worry about in our increasingly online future.
It’s to Nussbaum’s credit that in this his first Fringe production, he makes the stuff of staid futurists a smart laugh-out-loud evening at the theatre.
Fact, faith, blind trust, truth, free will and of course, the usual: who, what, why, when and where is God, are all questions probed in the quick witted Jesus Jello: The Miraculous Confection. It seems almost too obvious to perform this play in a church, but it works just the same. Especially for the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Continue reading Jesus Jello: The Miraculous Confection (Zaw Theatre) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review
Tangled Web Theatre’s Toronto Fringe Festival debut of their inspiring FringeKids! show Handle With Care is remarkable theatre! When you first walk into the Palmerston Library stage you are greeted by a charming woodland scene. It was so much fun to see the children discover the flitting butterflies and the caterpillar inching its way along a branch!
And then the show begins, and you are swept away on a whimsical journey. Bonnie Thomson’s script is full of natural childlike banter, and the three cast members (Bonnie Thomson, Helen Juvonen and Tyler Seguin) are spirited as three kids who stumble upon a mysterious box labeled “Handle With Care.”
Continue reading Handle With Care (Tangled Web Theatre) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review