Fallsview to a Kill (part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival) is an improvised pastiche of James Bond: six actors play supervillains, mooks, heroes and badgers as S.M.A.S.H Agent Brent (Jon Blair) works to thwart Dr. Thompson’s sinister plan to seize not just Niagara Falls, but the entire greater Golden Horseshoe.
And it works! Concept-oriented Fringe Improv is a field littered with shows that had great concepts and zero follow-through; this company knows their stuff and deliver the goods. It’s polished, it’s beautifully paced, and it all hangs together beautifully.
There’s nothing like a Morro & Jasp show: not in other time slots at Tarragon Theatre, not in the whole of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, not ever. Toronto’s favorite clown sisters have a new two-hander in the Fringe this year and it’s everything you ever wanted from them – bickering, antics, deep emotional engagement with the foundations of human connection, belly laughs and snacks.
The ambitious new play Under the Knife by Brandy Baker, mounted by Two Planks, debuts at the Randolph Theatre as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. With a cast of seven playing twelve roles, an eighty-five minute running time, and nearly twenty scenes, the scale of the production doesn’t always live up to its aspirations.
