What do you get when you combine time travel, social commentary and an introspective look at one gay man’s coming of age story? Well, you end up with Do These Pants Make Me Look Fat’s contribution for this year’s Toronto Fringe entitled, The Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos.
Based on the premise of what would happen when a person’s past and present selves are brought together, this play, which runs at the George Ignatieff Theatre, chronicled one gay man’s regrets and triumphs during a 20-year span.
Mo and Jess Kill Susie is the first play I have seen at The Toronto’s Fringe Festival 2013. It might also be the best play I’ve ever seen at Fringe. It’s a site specific play with performances happening at the lower level of Trinity-St. Paul’s. When the play finished, I dried my eyes then contacted my editors. My message was simple: I love this play!
The cast of three is all female, and the audience was at least 80 per cent female on the night I attended. Don’t get the wrong idea though: Mo and Jess Kill Susie is anything but a stroller convention. This could very well be the most intense, violent play I have seen.
Radio :30 opened tonight to a full house so if you want to see it make sure that you arrive early to get tickets.
I’m not sure that there is a ‘typical’ Fringe show but if there is Radio :30 isn’t it. It’s a fine example of what a Fringe show can be when it grows up. Chris Earle wrote Radio :30 and performed it at Fringe in 1999. Since then it’s won both a Dora and a Chalmers award. Continue reading Radio :30 (the night kitchen) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
The Factory Theatre was on fire tonight, and not only because the weather finally hit the height it’s meant to in early July. It was on fire because the packed house of The Musical of Musicals: The Musical (say that ten times fast) was alight with intense glee (not a pun, I swear) at the incredible show they just witnessed.
