A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
I enter the scene of The Virginity Lost & Found at this year’s 2012 Toronto Fringe Fest to find elderly gentle-lady Mary Pat Susan Jean (writer/performer S. Bear Bergman) seated at his/her desk, modestly dressed in a long flowered skirt, a light cardigan, and sensible men’s shoes.
Her/his short, grey bob is perfectly coifed, complementing his/her scruffy, brown beard. Continue reading The Virginity Lost & Found (Flamingo Rampant) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
A Slight Ache is a one act by famed English playwright Harold Pinter that explores that great destruction that can be caused by small annoyances. It is presented at the Toronto Fringe Festival by Toronto-based theatre company Red Rabbit Theatre Productions.
Continue reading A Slight Ache (Red Rabbit Theatre Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
MUSICAL PAWNS utilizes choral singing, scenes and dance to bring the story of the obscure compose, David Nowakowsky to life. It was created by Lost Music Productions and has come to the Toronto Fringe festival after being given the Audience Choice Award at the FRIGID New York Theater Festival.
The story opens with a descendant of the composers speaking to a university dean about the location of the irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind original sheet music of Nowakowsky. The sheet music is discovered to be missing and the story of how it came to the university in the first place unfolds.
Continue reading MUSICAL PAWNS (Lost Music Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Barbara Lorraine Laing opens her performance of Dreamplace & The Blackbox Memoir at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Fest by briefly describing what we are about to experience. It is a 45-minute work-in-progress that experiments with poetry as a storytelling method.
I had my reservations. I was also curious to see how an actor could pull off a solo show in the Tent at the Fringe Club. Continue reading Dreamplace & The Blackbox Memoir (She’s Making A Spectacle Of Herself!) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Like A Dog is anything but a dog of a play. Your Good Friends let the dog out at Robert Gill Theatre as part of Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s also the first time the legendary Peter C. Wylde has performed in almost a decade.
I would describe Like A Dog as a cross between the old television program The Twilight Zone and a William S. Burroughs novel. It is a mixture of many different genres including drama, psychological thriller, science fiction, suspense, and horror. It is thought-provoking, a gigantic “what if?” Writer and director Matthew Gorman has created something special.
Continue reading Like A Dog (Your Good Friends) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review