Reviews of productions based in Toronto – theatre includes traditional definitions of theatre, as well as dance, opera, comedy, performance art, spoken word performances, and more. Productions may be in-person, or remote productions streamed online on the Internet.
By Dana Lacey
Wanderlust is a true story about a New Yorker who travels to West Africa in search of epiphany. He doesn’t know what epiphany looks like, but he’s pretty sure he’ll find it in Africa. Continue reading Toronto Fringe Review- Wanderlust – Glen Morris Studio
By Megan Mooney
Bridget Gall has a one-woman show in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. The name alone made me want to see it. I mean, how can you resist something called Red Wine Teeth?
I made the mistake of kind of expecting it to be mostly a comedy. Although there were funny bits, I think it’s sometime I’d more likely class as a drama. It’s possible that it felt that way because for the most part, I think the ‘serious’ bits worked better than the ‘funny’ bits.
Continue reading Fringe Review: Red Wine Teeth – Girl has Gall Productions
By Sam Mooney
The Good Thief by Irish playright Conor McPherson presented by Flaming Locomotive from Australia and staring Allan Girod is billed as a drama which concerned me a bit because I don’t normally go to see dramas. I think because they make me cry and I figure, why pay to cry? I didn’t cry.
I did love the play and the performance. The Good Thief is a one character play and the character tells the audience a story. Allan Girod is terrific as a small-time hoodlum from Dublin. The story is engaging, violent, touching, sad, and has some very funny lines.
Continue reading Fringe Review – The Good Thief – Flaming Locomotive
By Sam Mooney
The Williamson Playboys are funny. Very funny. Side-splittingly, politically incorrect, laugh til you pee funny.
The very talented Paul Bates and Doug Morency are The Williamson Playboys, the oldest living father-and-son Cajun music duo. The show is an hour of songs and improv. Think Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks Thousand Year Old Man but funnier. Did I mention it’s funny? FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY!
Continue reading Fringe Review – The Williamson Playboys in: Brother Can You Spare Some Pants?
By Crystal Wood
You know what I love about the Fringe Festival? I love that you can go see a post-modern retelling of Lysistrata one minute, and then go see a play about poo the next. Isn’t theatre great?
Any play called The Fecal Monologues is going to be 60 minutes of scatological humour. Know that, accept that, and then you can just sit back and enjoy the jokes. And I did.
Continue reading Fringe Review: The Fecal Monologues – Don't Jump Smile