It’s hard being famous. It’s harder being famous siblings. In The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour playing at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, we learn about the rise to fame and the inevitable fall, with a bunch of great songs in-between.
Cootie Catcher is a one-man show written by, and starring Lucas Brooks, presented by the Toronto Fringe Festival. Switching hats between performer and sex educator, Brooks details his experiences as a sex positive person and his close encounters with STIs and sex negativity.
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I brought a friend to Uncle Tommy’s Campfire, and she was a little miffed: we’re sitting in the backyard of some dinky café and this weird guy tells us stories? That’s it? We paid $10 for this? But as soon as the show began — and it’s the most original beginning you’ll see at a Toronto Fringe Festival show this season — she was hooked, and it was all downhill from there. Man, what a night.
I would highly recommend patrons familiarize themselves with the theatrical form of Commedia dell’arte before seeing Fool’s Gold, presented by Rosy Cheeks Co-op at the Toronto Fringe Festival. After seeing the lukewarm response of some audience members (there were a few walk-outs), this is a show that you want to enter into with some expectations.
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True story: In 1916, the people of Irwin, TN lynch mobbed a circus elephant. Mary was an 18-year-old Indian elephant who spent her life in captivity before she finally lashed out killing an assistant trainer. For this, the town saw it necessary that she be hung by chains until she died. In Man’s Dominion, playing at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, veteran actor Tim Powell tells her story through ten eye-witness accounts in interwoven monologues in a rich and stunning performance.
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