A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
Echoes, by Omnika In Motion, is a multi-disciplinary dance piece that reinterprets the classic trope of Jekyll and Hyde through props, shadow play, and genres as diverse as belly dance, jazz, hip-hop, and circus. Currently playing at Factory Theatre, the show represents a refreshingly plot-free, dialogue-free option compared to the more straightforward stories one might encounter at Toronto Fringe.
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The Bird Killer produced by LMI (Let Me In) Theatre is playing at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. This modern adaptation of Anton Chekov‘s famous play The Seagull, utilizes Chekov’s classic characters to re-examine what true love really looks like.
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Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious is an hour one-woman play written, created and performed by Alyson Parovel for the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival playing at the Solo Room at Tarragon Theatre. It looks at how autism spectrum disorder can shape relationships, and open and necessitate unique avenues of communication.
The Toronto Fringe Festival offers such variety, and I’m glad that I chose to see Cheri, produced by Cheri-on-the-Run Productions at the Al Green Theatre. As an aging woman, I can tell you that older women are are invisible in media. Finally, representation! Still, this play can be funny and engaging for all.
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A 6IX NNNNNN Revue, playing at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, is TallBoyz II Men’s latest sketch show, and while it carries a lot of potential, it consistently falls short of its ambitious and eponymous aim.
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