This piece makes use of musical numbers, storytelling, film, and satire to talk about Katz‘ experience with sexual assault, as well as broader problems about the expectations placed on women in society. She tells her own story in detail. Despite the otherwise light and funny tone, it a vulnerable show.
Thousand Beginnings is a piece of performance art that combines intensely physical choreography, philosophical poetry, and visually dazzling prop work into happenings about the expectations of femininity a woman needs to shed to find peace. It’s a substantive debut from Under The Umbrella and a challenging addition to the Toronto Fringe that will leave plenty to ponder after the curtain falls.
The Brothers Gentle produced by SockMonkey playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a poignant and often hilarious exploration of brotherhood, fathers and sexuality that is a welcome addition to this year’s festival.
Different people have different habits, vices even, and judging by the contents of many bookstores’ self-help sections, everyone has at least one. Hooked, by Pepper Dance Projects, running at the Factory Theatre Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival‘s slate of dance shows, imagines what might happen if one day everyone was forced to simply stop. The answer that Hooked provides, through its talented cast and its careful narrative, is proof of the ability of dance to tell moving stories.
Different people have different habits, vices even, and judging by the contents of many bookstores’ self-help sections, everyone has at least one.