A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
pomme is french for apple is not about cooking, or about the French language. Let’s just get that out of the way. It’s also not for the kiddies, so leave them at home.
Continue reading pomme is french for apple (Paul Watson Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
S-27 is a powerful play currently onstage at Annex Theatre as part of Toronto Fringe Festival.
The play was inspired by photographs taken of prisoners at a Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia. At the prison where the photos were taken, 14,000 entered. 7 survived.
Sarah Grochala won Amnesty International’s Protect The Human Playwriting Award in 2007 for S-27. This mounting marks the play’s North American premier.
Continue reading S-27 (Intersection Theatre) 2012 Toronto Theatre Review
Life in the Raw is perhaps the most ambitious play I’ve seen so far at the Fringe, incorporating music, historical detail and and family drama into one 60-minute show.
Continue reading Life in the Raw (Thick and Thin Productions) – 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Terry Pratchett is an award-winning English novelist known for his work in the comic fantasy genre, most notably the Discworld series. The Discworld is a realm in which the world is flat, balanced on the backs of four elephants all of which are also balanced on the back of a giant turtle. Did I mention he has the delightful ability to throw in a strong element of whimsy and humor into his work? In Socratic Theatre Collective‘s Fringe offering Mort, the cast invite you to enter the Discworld where anything can happen.
Continue reading Terry Pratchett’s Mort (Socratic Theatre Collective) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Arrive at Fake News Fangirl knowing what to expect, and you’ll walk away impressed. Sharilyn Johnson (Third Beat Productions) puts on one-woman show at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace that’s part memoir, part exposé, and peppered here and there with comedy and the awkward anecdotes of adolescence and early career.
Continue reading Fake News Fangirl (Third Beat Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review