A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.
After Earth is almost destroyed due to climate change, six twenty-somethings are stuck together on a spaceship en route to populate the planet Mars. 2018: A Sex Odyssey, presented by Theresa Ramirez Productions, is a sketch comedy playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading 2018: A Sex Odyssey (Theresa Ramirez Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
A play without characters or a traditional plot but with a lot of sociological theory may not seem like obviously compelling theatre. Nevertheless, Cluster Fucked, a show put on by Incomplete Productions currently running in the Toronto Fringe Festival at the Tarragon Theatre Solo Room, does just that, its talented cast taking a smart script and using it to make their audience understand important facts about our world. Namely, the power of Big Data to distort the lives of people in the early 21st century with frightening ease.
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To behold the dense universe of emotions that is Robert—a new tragicomedy from Lark & Whimsy Theatre Collective playing at St. George The Martyr—is to discover the kind of undeniable gem the Fringe exists to shed light on.
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Crave (Crave Collective and Pure Carbon) playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival
Sarah Kane’s Crave is a visceral text that dives into the human psyche. It surely is not to be messed with. With a long list of themes revolving around rape, sexual assault, abuse, child abuse, pedophilia, eating disorders, suicide and mental illness (phew, what a list), the first question to Crave Collective and Pure Carbon is: how the hell to approach these topics with audiences?
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Andy Warhol Musical: In Rehearsal (produced by Josie’s Pussy Cats) is a cool, sleek new musical that follows the lives of the famous pop artist’s many muses from Brigid Berlin to Edie Sedgwick.
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