“Being naked and too honest makes you predictable and maudlin,” chided one of the characters early in OverTime, which premiered tonight at the Robert Gill Theatre for the Toronto Fringe Festival. And for the next 85 minutes or so, the cast proved the exact opposite was true.
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In Princess Sparkly Butt (part of the FringeKids! lineup at the Toronto Fringe Festival), the titular Princess Kimberly discovers she has the power to control time with her enormous caboose. Blessed with this ample gift, she sets off to defeat a monster, save her planet, and convince her mother that she can be more than some Space Prince’s wife.
Toronto’s Bald Monkey Theatre formed with the intention “to simply create stuff we would pay to see.” Their production of Evan Brown’s A Tournament of Lies at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival is a success beyond this simple premise and is a must experience for anyone who loves immersive, emotional, honest and funny theatre.
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One Good Marriage, written by Toronto playwright Sean Reycraft, was the winner of NOW Magazine’s award for Outstanding New Play at the 2002 Summerworks Festival. So I was very eager to check out Staircase Theatre’s production at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival and am I ever glad I did.
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I generally don’t like one-person shows. Because the onus is on one actor to relate a story, often without much more than narration, I find myself wishing I could just read the play. Thus, I headed to the St. Vladimir Theatre to see the Toronto Fringe premier of The Women of Tu-Na House with some trepidation.
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