Fringe Festival

A collection of everything to do with the Toronto Fringe Festival, including reviews, features, press releases etc.

THE WIN AT LIFE MEGA EXPO – TORONTO FRINGE 2018 PRESS RELEASE

From Press Release:

Comedians Faisal Butt (Sirus XM Top Comic), Amish Patel (Laugh Out Loud), and Morgan O’Shea (Just For Laughs) have gone rogue and quit comedy to pursue the lucrative life as motivational speakers. The Win at Life Mega Expo is having a limited engagement at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Guaranteed to solve all your problems on money, health, and love in 57 short minutes.

With a combined 30 years of stand-up experience, countless festivals and TV credits, the trio decided to call it quits and finally make a difference in people’s life. “I realized that it’s not only about me – it’s about all of us,” says O’Shea with a tawdry smile. “When you make a difference in someone’s life, you really make a difference,” follows Butt.”First you get the money then you get the friends,” exclaims Patel, seemingly out of nowhere. Their enthusiasm is exhausting.

Details

  • The Win at Life Mega Expo plays at Scadding Court (room 4). (707 Dundas St. W.)
  • Tickets are $13, including a $2 service charge. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes and discounts for serious Fringers.
  • Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.), and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
  • The Fringe Festival considers this venue to be wheelchair-accessible.
  • Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.

Performances

  • Thursday July 5th, 7:00 pm
  • Friday July 6th, 7:00 pm
  • Monday July 9th, 7:00 pm
  • Wednesday July 11th, 7:00 pm
  • Thursday July 12th, 7:00 pm
  • Friday July 13th, 7:00 pm

BIKEFACE – TORONTO FRINGE 2018 PRESS RELEASE

From Press Release:

BikeFace is a two-wheeled adventure of Canadian proportions, spinning strange-but-true tales from a ride across the country! There are graveyard groundskeepers, Wild West proprietors, and wanderers with secrets only fit for strangers. This one-woman whirlwind retraces a real-life bike ride from Halifax to Vancouver, uphill and against the wind the whole way

During the Victorian cycling craze, doctors warned women riders they would undoubtedly cultivate “bicycle faces”: becoming over-exerted, wild-eyed, un-sexed vulgarities, with nothing before them but the wide, open road. Over a century later, the Journal of Paediatric Psychology still finds that girls are four times more likely to be warned about dangers inherent in exploration and adventure. This is where BikeFace takes off! It will tickle your funny bone and above all else, ignite your thirst for adventure!

BikeFace is produced by Trailblazing Ladies, in association with the Toronto Fringe. We are interested in telling stories of adventure, exploration, and women who break boundaries.

Details

  • BikeFace plays at the Annex Theatre. (736 Bathurst St.)
  • Tickets are $13, including a $2 service charge. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes and discounts for serious Fringers.
  • Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.), and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
  • This venue is wheelchair-accessible through a secondary route which requires a staff escort. Check in at the box office at least 15 minutes prior to showtime.
  • Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.

Performances

  • Thursday July 5th, 6:30 pm
  • Saturday July 7th, 1:45 pm
  • Monday July 9th, 10:45 pm
  • Thursday July 12th, 1:45 pm
  • Friday July 13th, 9:45 pm
  • Saturday July 14th, 2:15 pm
  • Sunday July 15th, 7:30 pm

 

Wagon Play – Toronto Fringe 2018 Press Release

Photo of Cappellacci, Emma Banigan, Alexis Gontan, Lindsey Middleton, Brandon Gillespie in Wagon Play by Owen Fawcett

From Press Release

Theatre By Committee presents the world premiere of Wagon Play by Ben Hayward. Directed by Theatre By Committee’s Ben Hayward (Best Play, Hamilton Fringe Festival ’16) and Owen Fawcett ​(Thom Pain, Omnium Gatherum, The Food Project), Wagon Play explores media culture and contemporary worship, asking the audience to consider the fabric of their plugged-in lives. Featuring a cast of Emma Banigan, Katherine Cappellacci, Brandon Gillespie, Alexis Gontan, Brendan Kinnon, Lindsey Middleton and Jonathan Walls, ​this site-specific dark comedy inducts you into The Way and shows you the light. Opening Friday July 6, ​the show runs to Sunday July 15 as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival​ at Majlis Art Garden​.

Tired of easy answers and a higher power? Awaken the power within yourself and learn that you need look no higher. Amber Moon, former pop princess turned modern day guru, will take you through a whole new way to see the world and your place in it. She and The Way have rejected the old ways and are travelling the country telling people how to embrace the new. Join the movement that is about to set the world on fire.

Details

  • Wagon Play plays at the Majlis Art Garden. (163 Walnut Ave.)
  • Tickets are $13, including a $2 service charge. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes and discounts for serious Fringers.
  • Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.), and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
  • Content Warnings: Audience participation; Mature language; Outdoors.
  • The Fringe Festival considers this venue to be wheelchair-accessible.
  • Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.

Performances

  • Friday July 6th, 8:00 pm
  • Saturday July 7th, 8:00 pm
  • Sunday July 8th, 5:00 pm
  • Sunday July 8th, 8:00 pm
  • Friday July 13th, 8:00 pm
  • Saturday July 14th, 8:00 pm
  • Sunday July 15th, 5:00 pm
  • Sunday July 15th, 8:00 pm

Photo of Cappellacci, Emma Banigan, Alexis Gontan, Lindsey Middleton, Brandon Gillespie by Owen Fawcett

F*cking Perfect – Toronto Fringe 2018 Press Release

Photo of Jessica Bowmer, Iliana Spirakis, Adriana MoraesMendoza and Jeysa Caridad in F*cking Perfect by Jaimee Hall

From Press Release

Chocolate Kiss collective is comprised of Jeysa Caridad, Jessica Bowmer, Adriana Moraes-Mendoza and Iliana Spirakis. All recent graduates of Humber Theatre Performance they begin their foray into professional theatre with a piece entitled “F*cking Perfect.” It takes place at The Factory Theatre MainStage, in Toronto’s Fringe Festival from Saturday, July 6th – 14th. Further information on location and tickets may be found on the Toronto Fringe website. The piece aims to dismantle and explore the process that forms the female psyche through truncated narrative. It investigates themes of love, illusion, and perception of gender and personhood with an aching relevance to today’s social and political landscape. 

Details

  • Fucking Perfect plays at the Factory Theatre Mainspace. (125 Bathurst St.)
  • Tickets are $13, including a $2 service charge. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes and discounts for serious Fringers.
  • Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.), and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
  • Content Warnings: Sexual content; Mature language.
  • This venue is wheelchair-accessible through a secondary route.
  • Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.

Performances

  • Friday July 6th, 5:00 pm
  • Saturday July 7th, 9:15 pm
  • Monday July 9th, 6:45 pm
  • Tuesday July 10th, 3:00 pm
  • Wednesday July 11th, 12:00 pm
  • Friday July 13th, 11:00 pm
  • Saturday July 14th, 7:30 pm

Photo of Jessica Bowmer, Iliana Spirakis, Adriana MoraesMendoza and Jeysa Caridad by Jaimee Hall

FALLSVIEW TO A KILL – TORONTO FRINGE 2018 PRESS RELEASE

 

 

From Press Release:

Agents have had their identities compromised and the best of the best have been eliminated. It’s time to turn to the best of what’s left! Will they be able to save Niagara Falls in time…?

Dr. Thompson is up to his old tricks again, but this time he’s playing for keeps! Phase one is the elimination of every activeSMASH Agent. Phase two is a celebration party at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. Phase three is the total destruction of Niagara Falls! There’s only one man who can stop him, Disgraced Former C.I.E.H. Agent Jake Brand! Will Jake be able to stop Dr. Thompson in time, or will North America need a new “Honeymoon capital”?

Fallsview to a Kill is the Improvised Beatprov show that the Fringe Festival audience can’t afford to miss! The performance is structured but the plot and story of each 60 minute James Bond-style show will be unique. Through the improvised content in this show, audiences will get to see their suggestions come alive, as Jake Brand and his nemesis Dr. Thompson fight for the fate of Niagara Falls!

Details

  • Fallsview to a Kill plays at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. (79 St. George St.)
  • Tickets are $13, including a $2 service charge. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes and discounts for serious Fringers.
  • Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.), and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
  • Content Warnings: Mature language; Audience participation; Gunshots.
  • This venue is wheelchair-accessible.
  • Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.

Performances

  • Friday July 6th, 3:00 pm
  • Saturday July 7th, 7:00 pm
  • Sunday July 8th, 2:45 pm
  • Monday July 9th, 2:45 pm
  • Wednesday July 11th, 11:00 pm
  • Friday July 13th, 5:45 pm
  • Saturday July 14th, 12:00 pm