A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Theatre Brouhaha’s Help Yourself, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is the sort of play where men yell profanity-ridden tirades about sex and violence at each other until it culminates in an act of violence that involves tables being turned. I feel like that is its own sub-genre and that Help Yourself didn’t do anything new with it, but that’s ok because it’s funny and dark and dirty. Continue reading Help Yourself (Theatre Brouhaha) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
With Love And A Major Organ, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a quirky love story with so much heart that it’s never too twee. Writer Julia Lederer also plays one of the three characters, a girl obsessed with a man she sees every day on the subway. I found this really relatable, as once upon a time I had a crush on a gorgeous man I saw every day on the streetcar reading the Sheltering Sky on my way into a temp job.
Limitless Productions return to the Toronto Fringe Festival with another show – Sex, Bollywood and Other Lies — that provokes the edges of South Asian and contemporary dance. Here’s a six-question Q and A with co-choreographers Ashima Suri and Imran Mohammed and the company. Continue reading Limitless Productions’ Sex, Bollywood and Other Lies: 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival Dance Preview
Ten Foot Pole Theatre and writer Rob Salerno are known for taking on political issues with a biting satirical edge. Their latest show at the Toronto Fringe Festival, RAW, tackles the issue of HIV disclosure versus personal responsibility.
James (Jason R. Stroud) learns he is HIV positive from an anonymous letter informing him that he has been exposed to the virus and should get tested. In a rage, he hunts down Stephen (Rob Salerno), the man James believes he contracted HIV from after they had unprotected sex together at a bathhouse. Continue reading RAW (Ten Foot Pole Theatre) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Welcome to the year 2015 and to the first inaugural meeting of FLIP (Foundation for Lasting International Peace), an organization whose purpose is to promote world peace by bringing global communities to follow a secular world view and eliminate religion – the cause of most world conflicts. At this meeting, the film The Omega Project by FLIP members Daniel and Lindsay Cooper, an eye-opening documentary of the 2011 Egypt conflicts, will also be debuted. Continue reading The Omega Project (Glasswater Theatre) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review