Bakersfield Mist produced by ytheatre Collective playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is raw, unpolished and not for everyone, but at its heart there’s a fiery passion reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, an artist that features centrally throughout the play.

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Is That How Clowns Have Sex? A One – Woman, Queer Clown Sex – Ed Show (Maximaliste Productions) is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Class is in session! Beatrice Haven (Fionna Ross) is educating Fringe audiences with a new sex education curriculum. Through a clown lens, Ms. Beatrice Haven and Maximaliste Productions attempt to answer the age-old question, Is That How Clowns Have Sex? (ITCH(e)S).

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The festival has officially begun, which means the reviews have started streaming in! We’re about 45 shows into a 160 show festival, and we already have a few raves that we can’t wait to tell you about! From comedy to drama, there’s something for everyone this year. Check out our first three “Daily Raves” below!

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Adapted from the award-winning podcast of the same name, Gangway! Theatre Company’s Six Stories, Told at Night, currently playing at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, is a lyrical story about the ambiguous traumas of heartbreak and loss; but it’s also a mythic epic of self-discovery, empathy, identity formation, and the transformative power of storytelling. Most vitally, however, Six Stories is a fairy tale.

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Um, please go see Devon More‘s Flute Loops.

It is an amazingly good music-based play running at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse for the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Here is a list of some of the best things this show features:

• Music made on the spot with live sampling/playback, improvising with the audience and building on just about anything we do or don’t do
• General physics nerd stuff combined with music nerd stuff (especially a treat for me!!)
• A delightfully charmingly awkward and funny character who uses well-placed puns

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