Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Saturday, July 4th

Fringe For Free GraphicWell folks, the first day of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2015 is over. The first and second sets of tickets in Mooney on Theatre’s Fringe for Free contests have been given away. The third set will be drawn today. Luckily, the contests just keep coming.

These five draws are all for shows playing on Saturday, July 4th. Hard to imagine a better way to spend a Saturday than checking out some free theatre.

And, remember to check back every day because for every day until Friday July 10, we’ll be giving out tickets to 5 shows. You can enter each of the five contests by sending us an email (more details below).

Remember, you need to enter each contest individually. If we pick your name, you’ve got two tickets heading your way, so watch out for that confirmation e-mail!

Here are the 5 shows playing on Saturday, July 4th, after the jump.
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Shecky’s Yoga Shul (Shana and Howard Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Shana Sandler by Harold PressburgerOut of the past couple of years exploring the Toronto Fringe Festival, I think I chose the best way to start this year’s festivities — yoga class. Shecky’s Yoga Shul is exactly that, a yoga class in the form of a Fringe show combining ancient yoga traditions with Judaic wisdom. But don’t let the label fool you, this 75-minute experience is not preachy, evangelical or wholly new-agey. What it is is inspiring, amusing, comical, and a great way to get a work out during Fringe.

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Interrogation: Lives and Trials of the Kamloops Kid (Collidescope Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

photo of benaldo yeung and loretta yu

There is something immensely satisfying about seeing a play like Interrogation: Lives and Trials of the Kamloops Kid (playing at the Factory Theatre Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival) on Canada Day. With a story that engages important issues like citizenship, identity, colonialism and war, Interrogation is an ambitious, thoughtful production that just needs a little more polishing.

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there/GONE (Discord and Din Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

My Toronto Fringe Festival experience began this year in a cozy vintage store in Kensington Market called Flashback Vintage. The air is thick with that comforting, musty scent of well-used objects kept in storage. I, and my fellow audience members, stroll around the shop, familiarizing ourselves with the merchandise and hunting for the object we were told would be ours for the duration of Discord and Din Theatre’s site-specific show there/GONE. Continue reading there/GONE (Discord and Din Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review →

Exposure (Undershaft and Lazarus) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

Laurel Paetz, Craig Walker, Christopher Blackwell in "Exposure"Undershaft and Lazarus‘ Exposure, currently playing at the Robert Gill Theatre as part of Toronto Fringe, bills itself as the story of the first selfie. That’s not strictly true, though it is a cute log-line. Rather, it’s the story of the first photograph ever successfully taken of a human being, back in 1838 when photography was in its infancy. If you’ve seen the picture in question, then I’d describe the show as a kind of behind-the-scenes fantasy of who that figure might be, and how he might be connected to Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the Daguerrotype process of photography. Really, it’s a great concept.

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