Fourth Gorgon Theatre has executed a soul stirring, sublime production of Molly Bloom, now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

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Toronto Fringe Festival presents Boys Don’t Cry at the Robert Gill Theatre. Award-winning young songwriter Mateo Lewis explores his complicated relationship with gender and romance in this semi-autobiographical musical coming-of-age story.

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In Escape from Shady Acres (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival), three seniors find common cause in busting out of their tyrannical old folks’ home.

Bernice (Colleen Simm) and Dolores (Corinne Sutton-Smith) are Stockholm Syndrome-y lifers, amusing themselves by imagining gentlemen callers and rehearsing for tomorrow’s YouTube show. When new arrival Shirley (Martha Breen) blows into town, the three begin scheming — but overseer Alistair (Tyler Morgan, who also wrote the script) is no pushover, and escape will not come easily.

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What would you do for what you wanted? That is the question at heart of Peaches On A Cherry Tree playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s a dark, surrealistic production – a strange play, intentionally so.

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The most passionate can be the most toxic. The deepest pain can be the sweetest pleasure. Toronto Fringe Festival presents dance theatre investigation i feel you at the Randolph Theatre. It is a beautiful ode to the complexity of human connection.

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