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Dead for a Ducat by Reign or Shine Productions at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a mash up of a classic film noir detective story and Hamlet. I like film noir. I like Shakespeare. And I definitely liked Dead for a Ducat. It’s an ingenious new take on a classic tale. Continue reading Dead for a Ducat (Reign or Shine Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
The Girl in the Photograph, written by Joel Pettigrew and directed by Victoria Urquhart playing as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, is all too relatable. Too almost uncomfortably relatable, which I guess is why this play hits so many notes, both pleasant and not so much, and why it will stay and haunt me for a very long time. This is a tale of forbidden attraction — she’s 14 and he’s older, charismatic and dangerously slick. He knows exactly what to say at any given time to coerce, manipulate and charm his way into whoever he wants.
Continue reading The Girl in the Photograph (Quirvan Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
Playing at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival at the Al Green Theatre, All of Me by Theatre Insomnia is an interesting show for people with brain on the brain.
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Any high expectations for The Easter Bunny are instantly changed upon reading the program. Not the cover, where it warns of descriptions of violence and sexual assault, and that it is one of the few Toronto Fringe Festival 2018 shows that isn’t a comedy. No, inside the program are three paragraphs from theatre company Marble Theatre Group, where they explain that The Easter Bunny is not the show they intended to mount. Another show was too expensive, then there were issues with casting and what sounds like last-minute re-writes, and now, they have this monologue for us instead. Apologizing for your show before the audience has even seen it does not inspire confidence.
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First Dates (produced by Clutch Performance Theatre Co.) dives into the nuances of the dreaded “first date” at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
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