A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
With four shows left of The Gravity Hour at the Toronto Fringe Festival, here’s a little bit about the project director, choreographer and dancer Kiri Figueiredo as added incentive to check it out. Continue reading A quick Q and A with Kiri Figueiredo: 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival Dance Preview
Playing at the Toronto Fringe this year, Botched (Cleen) is the story about a girl who survives almost being aborted and now, 18 years later, is on a quest to find her birth mother. Continue reading Botched (Cleen) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
2012 Toronto Fringe is still chugging along, full speed ahead – and you should see a show this week! And what better way to go to a Fringe show than for free!? As you know from last year we like to spread the love during Fringe and invite our readers to participate in contests for a pair of FREE Fringe tickets to SIX shows every day of the festival. So enter a contest and Fringe for Free! Today’s contest features a pair of tickets to five shows on Wednesday, July 11th.
The shows are:
Smart Food – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 12pm show at Annex Theatre (Venue 5) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Smart Food contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Everything I Never Knew I Wanted – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 12pm show at Tarragon Extra (Venue 2) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Everything I Never Knew I Wanted contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
The Virginity Lost & Found – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 2:15pm show at Tarragon Extra (Venue 2) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “The Virginity Lost & Found contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
I Became My Mother – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 7:45pm show at St. Vlad’s Theatre (Venue 7) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “I Became My Mother contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Botched – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 1opm show at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (Venue 11) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Botched contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Mum and the Big C – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 11pm show at Randolph Theatre (Venue 4) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Mum and the Big C contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
See below for details on each show, how the contest works:
If you want to simply attend the theatre and switch your brain onto autopilot, I suggest you find a different venue. But if you have been waiting for theatre that challenges the status quo, then you have arrived! Bound to Create Theatre has brought dirty butterfly to this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
Continue reading dirty butterfly (Bound to Create Theatre) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
A young man is determined to save his hometown, Vic Harbour, from the ghosts, drugs and isolation which are threatening to overwhelm it. He seeks the help of a young woman and the old lighthouse operator to overcome these forces. But will it be enough, or is the town’s decline inevitable?
Playing at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Mainspace under the auspices of the Toronto Fringe Festival, this show has a lot of interesting ideas in play. Is it worth your while?
Continue reading Vic Harbour (The Four Winds Collective) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review