Toronto is a city whose history is sometimes hard to grasp, often existing as little more than plaques on stone. In The Hollow Square by kith&kin playing at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church in The Music Gallery as part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, the audience gets to take a journey back in time that I found compelling, ethereal, and incredibly experiential.
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Waiting in Line, presented by Honest Arts Production Company, as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a show consisting of various vignettes that explore the effects of the welfare system in Ireland. The piece is enhanced using intricate projected backdrops on simple white walls. While all aspects of this show, from the subject matter to the technology to the characters themselves, are intriguing, I felt the show lacked consistency in how it linked these elements together.
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The Philanderess is a farce by playwright and actor Sophia Fabiilli, currently playing at the Annex Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. This update of the classic George Bernard Shaw comedy The Philanderer is an unqualified success that deserves full houses.
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I’m always signing myself up for dance shows. Why? I’m not knowledgeable about dance. I’m not even particularly into it. It’s the challenge, I guess, that I crave—to test my boundaries, explore unfamiliar forms of expression. There’s always something, other than the dancing itself, that I’m drawn to when I decide to experience a show like SMASH Entertainment’s Touch of Psycho at the Al Green Theatre, part of the Toronto Fringe. In this case, I was intrigued by the notion of delving into the mind of a psychopath. Continue reading Touch of Psycho (SMASH Entertainment) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
Late last night, a scrappy, sure-footed performance-poet strutted onto the Tarragon Theatre‘s Mainspace, rambling about Hungarian nuclear physicists and a Nazi atomic bomb. With nothing but a few changes in lighting and an effortlessly lyrical monologue, Jem Rolls continued to spin these ramblings into a fascinating one-man show titled The Inventor of All Things. This is a last-minute, so-late-it’s-not-even-in-the-program entry, and judging by the audience reaction, the Toronto Fringe Festival is lucky to have Rolls on board. Continue reading The Inventor of All Things (Jem Rolls) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review