Have you ever, in your long and lucky life, met someone who just smiled at you and somehow their smile hit you right in the heart? I have. But never has such complicated, raw, needy nonsense ensued as is acted out in Skunkweed, my first Toronto Fringe show of 2015 (playing at Theatre Passe Muraille in the Mainspace). This production of Skunkweed, an Eric Bogosian play, is 100% Bogosian in plot (sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll) and in theme: what would happen if you stopped behaving as you were supposed to, and did what you wanted instead? Continue reading Skunkweed (Triple ByPass Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review→
Four girls, one junky car, and infinite possibilities: be they sexual awakenings, post-grad anxieties, or your typical mid-20s identity crisis. That’s the basic premise of Out of the Blue Theatre Company’s Rounding the Bend, a new musical playing at the Robert Gill Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
When the lights come up on a simple wooden bench in the Factory Theatre, Red Betty’s production of Rukmini’s Gold, as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, promised to show us a story about “where we come from and where we are going”. In the hour and a half after that, the story was told with a delicacy and charm that kept me leaning forward in my seat.
When the lights come up on a simple wooden bench in the Factory Theatre, Red Betty’s production of