Above and Beyond produced by JackieTol Productions playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a show strong on sympathetic experiences but weak on narrative.
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Toronto Theatre Reviews
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.
Tita Jokes (Tita Collective) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Spice up your life with the Spice Girls of Comedy with a Filipina twist. Toronto Fringe Festival presents a musical sketch comedy spectacle, and crowd favorite, Tita Jokes at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace. Belinda Corpuz, Isabel Kanaan, Ellie Posadas, Alia Rasul, and Maricris Rivera embody the hilarious family members you wish you had.
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Sarah and Lucy (Runaway Hotel Kollective) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Runaway Hotel Kollective presents Sarah and Lucy now playing at the Toronto Fringe. Sarah and Lucy is based on Trailer Park Boys, narrowing its focus on the two titular characters. As a card-carrying fan of the series, I was excited to see this show. In the same vein as the creators of this piece, I agree that Sarah and Lucy are (Sarah) and were (Lucy) criminally underused characters, often being used to move the story along rather than being properly developed.
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Radioactive Spyder (RS Productions) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Radioactive Spyder at KidsFest at Toronto Fringe Festival is a musical developed in part by the grade 5 and 6 students of Equinox Holistic Alternative School, and performed by performers 10 – 15 years old from Spyder Theatre Company. It was an hour of 15 incredibly talented kids singing and dancing and having a blast. It was an hour well-spent.
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The Trophy Hunt (MadFandango Theatre Collective) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
The Trophy Hunt, presented by MadFandango Theatre Collective at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival, is a roving site-specific piece about predator and prey in the urban jungle. Taking place at 401 Richmond, playing several times per night, and accommodating only 25 audience members per performance, it takes its audience on a sort of twisted summer-camp safari where we hear monologues from three characters on both sides of the hunt. Continue reading The Trophy Hunt (MadFandango Theatre Collective) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review