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With a real-time runtime of 28 minutes, Driving Home is possibly the shortest performance Toronto Fringe has to offer.
The creative result of first-time playwright Heather Sande’s 365 consecutive days of blogging, Driving Home is set in the same place many of us use to get to the theatre: the car. Continue reading Driving Home (Working Artist Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
It’s been three and a quarter hours since I left the Fringe show It’s my Show and my cheeks and jaw muscles are still hurting from laughing so much and grinning widely when I wasn’t laughing. It’s My Show is comedy writ large.
George Westerholm is a very funny man. His show is the funniest that I’ve seen at Fringe this year an I’ve seen some funny shows. He and Patrick McKenna wrote the show, McKenna directs it. Westerholm is accompanied by Jake Wilkinson on the piano and Chris Bennett on guitar. The music is wonderful. Continue reading It’s My Show (It’s My Show) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Poetic and lyrical, The Canary Wallpaper & Underwood presented by Ink on Paper combines striking choreography accompanied by compelling musical scores and a powerful narrative. Sure to be one of this year’s most unique pieces at the Toronto Fringe Festival, The Canary Wallpaper & Underwood is hauntingly enticing. Continue reading The Canary Wallpaper & Underwood (Ink on Paper) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Avenal Player’s Honour Killings is a modern tragic story of a family gone wrong. Where pride in the family name can override such things as love and kinship. Where three sisters and a first wife are drowned after dishonoring their family and bringing shame to the household. This is a story that takes a closer inspection at old, painful traditions, and a Canadian government and society that fails to come to their aid. Continue reading Honour Killings (Avenal Players) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Stop. Look. Listen. I almost feel like I should thank Bad Connections? for reminding me to do this in my daily life. This solo show by New York playwright Michael Levesque is all about stopping and listening, to avoid the miscommunications that we all experience.
Paul Cosentino plays nine interrelated characters, from a new-age guru to a pregnant woman to a 4-year old boy, all dealing with a variety of personal issues. The play starts out as a series of monologues, but really picks up the pace in the second half when the characters interact and Cosentino is playing two-handers opposite himself.
Continue reading Bad Connections? (Thom Fogarty) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review