A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
From Press Release
“The Whores” walk the streets of the Toronto Fringe
TORONTO, Ontario (May 10th, 2010) – The 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival will feature Fishstick Productions’ presentation of Charles Crosby’s daring exposé of the world’s oldest profession.
DALE BEANER AND THE TURTLE BOY
AT ROYAL ST GEORGE, JUNE 30 – July 11 2010
TORONTO, ON – Baseball. Of all the lessons the game imparts on the field– teamwork, perseverance, patience – there is a strong lesson to be learned in the stands as well. That lesson, of course, is proper parenting. Devon Hyland (Second City Theatricals, A Night at the Improv) and Connor Thompson (Lusty Mannequins, Theatresports) have refined through hours of improv a funny ha-ha All-Star game where the action is in the crowd, on the field, and in the booth. Dale Beaner and the Turtle Boy: an hour-long two-man eight-character play – part of the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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From Press Release
Comic, poet and reformed psychiatric nurse, Rob Gee presents a user-friendly guide to losing the plot with “FRUITCAKE – Ten Commandments from the Psych Ward“.
Fruitcake charts a night shift on an acute psychiatric ward, seen through the eyes of a nurse who hears the voice of God. In this case, God is a kindly Jamaican woman – acclaimed dub poet Jean Binta Breeze.
Its creator, Rob Gee spent eleven years working as a registered nurse in psychiatric units around the U.K and Australia. Specialising in acute psychiatry, he has also worked with drug users, people with eating disorders, adolescents and the elderly.
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From Press Release
“A story is a thought with an axe in its heart
and needles thrust into its tips, keep it nice and linear.”
Presents
HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS
Written by Anna Roth Trowbridge and Directed by Nathaniel Bryan
HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS is part memory-play, part folk-tale set in the cold reality of Montreal and the mystified wilderness of New Mexico.
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From Press Release
“Hello? Are you there? I can’t hear you…”
The Go Two Company
presents
UNDER ANALYZE ME
Choreographed and performed by Aria Evans and Candice Irwin
UNDER ANALYZE ME is a world premier of four new dance works centering around the theme of technology and the messed up role it plays in the way we communicate. The dancers explore the absurd lengths that one sometimes goes to so as to avoid human contact and the confusions such types of interaction can lead to.
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