BOUT (SATS theatre), part of The Toronto Fringe Festival 2015, is an intimate, engaged performance about Jackie (Stephanie Carpanini), a woman determined to become a fighter, with dreams of also being an actor. It puts you ringside – literally – with up-close action.
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I still can’t figure out how he did it. I spent my entire 30-minute commute home trying to figure it out. I can’t. Chris Funk‘s phenomenal magic blew my mind in his show Redefining Wonder at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Happy – What You Need To Be is a love note to vaudeville. Real-life couple Jessica Di Giacomo and Daniel Torchinsky rattle through about six classic and original sketches complete with songs, dances, props and puns, interwoven with anecdotes and stories from their own relationship. But when I say this Toronto Fringe Festival show rattles, I mean it.
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She Said Yes (Dv8 Productions) at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival is a comedy about dating and relating in the 21st century and is told through the eyes of its playwright, Virginia Woodall. Continue reading She Said Yes (Dv8 Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
God’s Beard! (The Only Sketch Show That Has Ever Happened) presented by award-winning sketch troupe Falcon Powder, isn’t really the only sketch comedy show in existence (as you may have guessed), or even the only one at the Toronto Fringe Festival. It is, however, a very good example of the form.
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