I went to opening night of One In A Million (a micromusical) at the Randolph Theatre at Toronto Fringe Festival. The show is billed as a comedy but I am deep in the throes of a philosophical quandary as I write this.

We struggle a great deal as human beings. We feel joy and pain, anxiety and neuroses, love and lust. Imagine how much more stressful the life span of a single sex cell is?

One In A Million (a micromusical), written by Ron Fromstein and directed by Steve Morel, is the story of conception told from the perspective of some very earnest sperm cells and a very eager and impatient ovum, the Great ‘She’, and her ovaries-in-waiting.

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PornStar is one of the most buzzed-about productions at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, written by perennial Fringe favourite Chris Craddock (Bash’d) and performed by the artists behind Morro and Jasp, it sounds like a marriage of Fringe royalty. Continue reading PornStar (Beefy Geek Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review →

The Little Mermaid currently playing at the Toronto Fringe doesn’t seem very Fringe-like at all. And I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a visually stunning show with grand costumes and an ensemble cast of 16! Now that’s worth seeing. Continue reading The Little Mermaid (Sisters of Salome) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review →

Sometimes a Toronto Fringe show goes on to fame and fortune outside of the fringe circuit. Last year it was Kim’s Convenience. This year it could be The Wakowski Brothers. This is a play that should go on to bigger and better things.

It’s not the show I was expecting based on the program blurb. I thought it would be “a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants”. There was a lot of song and a lot of dance, no seltzer, a pie that didn’t get thrown, and a fairly complex story in between the vaudeville bits.

I wasn’t the only person who was surprised, and impressed. The buzz in the washroom after the show was all about how terrific it was, and how it was so much more than people were expecting. Continue reading The Wakowski Brothers (Aim for the Tangent) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review →

There’s nothing quite like family. The Ballad of Herbie Cox presented by Co. Sum of Its parts & Cie. Jozsek Trefeli at the Randolph Theatre joins the dance innitiative at the Toronto 2012 Fringe Festival from Melbourne, Australia. It is a patchwork quilt of song, dance and spoken word woven together by family stories.

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