What annoys you the most about people? When they bail on plans? Or text and drive? Whatever it is, it’s probably featured as a musical number in People Suck, the Nutmeg Creations’ hilarious musical playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. People Suck doesn’t have a plot or storyline. It’s a collection of songs that revolve around one theme: all the ways in which people are the worst.
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Duotang Chesterfield’s Mystery Theatre LIVE (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival) is built around a podcast by the same name, and that’s the crux of the problem. Billed as a sort of backstage comedy set in the world of old-timey radio serials, the scripts are interesting and the actors handle them well, but — at the risk of sounding entirely too blunt — why is this on a stage?
Life Records, by Beefman Jones Productions, is a one-woman show performed by Rhiannon Archer as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Part stand-up comedy and part confessional, the show is an exploration of how the music we listen to affects our lives, in which Archer delves into stories from her own life as comedic and eclectic examples.
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In Morro and Jasp do Puberty, presented as part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, clown sisters Morro (Heather Marie Annis) and Jasp (Amy Lee) are going through puberty, a time when everything is awkward and nothing is certain. Puberty might be unsure of itself, but this duo is anything but; having toured their shows at Fringe for almost a decade, they are masters of the craft. They have exquisite timing, hilarious dialogue, and a stubborn streak of empathy and melancholy that makes this show more than just a good time. Continue reading Morro and Jasp do Puberty (Up Your Nose and In Your Toes Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review