On Thursday evening I saw A King’s Heart at Factory Theatre. There are two things I need to admit to before I say anything about the show.
One – I chose it because I was seeing a show at 6.30 at Factory and I didn’t want to have to go to another theatre afterwards. It’s actually as good a way as any to choose shows, I’ve discovered some pretty great stuff that way.
Two – I’m an atheist. Chances are that I’m not going to be saved and come to Jesus as a result of a play.
The adoption of web and mobile technologies has revolutionized many aspects of our lives. MSM [men seeking men] presented by lemonTree Creations as part of the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival examines how gay dating and hook-up culture has been influenced by online platforms.
The show is a piece of stylized dance-based verbatim theatre conceived and directed by Indrit Kasapi and performed by eight dancers; Cole Alvis, Aldrin Bundoc, Corrado Cerruto, Andrew Hartley, Ryan G. Hinds, Louis Laberge-Côté, Cyril Limousin, and Nico Racicot.
The company started with transcripts of online conversations between men who seek other men and used layering and repetition of choreography to create interpretive scenes based on the transcripts and performed to a soundtrack provided by a DJ spinning live (DJ Scooter). Continue reading MSM [men seeking men] (lemonTree Creations) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
I am often drawn to solo performances as I am fascinated by how one performer can generate energy and drama as well as stage an engaging story all on their own. After Watching Cold Comfort, presented by Fly on the Wall Theatre playing at St. Vladimir’s Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, my standards have been significantly raised.
This afternoon I saw Rovero and Juliet at the Palmerston Library. I had hoped to have a kid with me but he couldn’t come so I was there on my own. I was a bit concerned that it would seem weird, an adult at a kid’s show without a kid but I needn’t have worried. We made up about half the audience.
The show is a re-telling of the Shakespeare play but with puppets and a happy ending. In this play the feud is between the Muttagues and the Catulets, the nurse is a cow and the friar is a camel. All the characters find true love, so it’s a happy ending all round. Continue reading Rovero and Juliet (The Manipulators) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
Steven Gallagher in Stealing Sam had me laughing, crying and on my feet clapping loudly by the end of the show. Whatever he was selling throughout his stellar performance, I bought into it. If you are looking for a Toronto Fringe show that tells a compelling honest story then Stealing Sam at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse is a show you don’t want to miss!
Now what would you expect if you see an average-looking middle-aged man dragging his medium-sized suitcase with him as he walked on to the stage? That maybe you are about to see a show of a typical business-like man who is possibly leaving town? Or maybe that he has a dead body inside his big suitcase and that body happens to be Sam? Neither of which is true. What you see is not always what you get. And that really is the underlying premise of the whole story.
The adoption of web and mobile technologies has revolutionized many aspects of our lives. 
This afternoon I saw 