A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Campfire’s offering in the Toronto Fringe Festival is Dominion, a story about nature and our place in it. Perched high above a national park, in their own distant watchtowers, two men discover their potential while the forest looms below. Continue reading Dominion (Campfire) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
I felt compelled to see Morning Buzz Live! at the Randolph Theatre by Mixtape at the Toronto Fringe Festival because I was curious about what a show about a morning talk show would be like.
The show’s description piqued my interest, and I wanted to know exactly how the topics of sexism, racism, and diversity hiring would play out on stage. There were some good points to Morning Buzz Live!, but its execution left something to be desired.
Continue reading Morning Buzz Live! (Mixtape) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
Settle This Thing (playing at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival) proposes a revolution in relationship therapy. Here’s the model: marriage is a trap, affection is just chemicals, everything’s about sex (until the sex disappears), and arguing just doesn’t work.
But if arguing doesn’t work, we need a new tiebreaker: a way to Settle This Thing. So on your way in the door, you’ll be presented with a voting paddle, and the show repeatedly asks you to pass judgement. Who won the argument? Who’s in the right? And who has to apologise?
Continue reading Settle This Thing (bick/antzis) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
The Toronto Fringe Festival has offered up a real gem with Restless Spirit, produced by Lago di Lupi Productions, playing at Theatre Passe Muraille – Mainspace.
Restless Spirit explores the question of whether or not ghosts exist, and if those who claim to communicate with them are all frauds, bent on exploiting the bereaved.
Continue reading Restless Spirit (Lago di Lupi Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
RAGE AGAINST The Inferno (Jerusalem), a Toronto Fringe Festival show put on by Sketch Platform Productions–currently playing at the Robert Gill Theatre–is an unsettling play.
The audience is taken into a complex realm of dreams and nightmares, where reality blurs and questions of morality take on an importance impossible to handle, to a place where certainty is impossible. The haunting intensity of RAGE AGAINST The Inferno (Jerusalem) makes this show worthy of attention.