One More and the Bill from Little Boy Lost transforms Theatre Passe Muraille into Dorian Gray’s Hotel California at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Having uttered the title phrase on more than one occasion, I was eager to see this production and my expectations were rewarded with a thoughtful, funny and emotional performance.
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The Woolgatherer, by William Mastrosimone, marks KD Productions inaugural performance as a company at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
Centred around the theme of boy meets girl, Mastrosimone’s atypical love story pins two characters, who are complete strangers to each other, together in one room for the entirety of the play. This makes for one heck of an emotional journey as they proceed to reveal themselves to each other as the play progresses.
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How do people anchor their emotional well-being when those around us are also suffering from various illnesses? Kildare Company’s Hanger, playing at St. Vladimir Theatre as part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, attempts to engage with questions of mental health in an unhealthy environment. Where ambition met weakness in the text, I still found myself thoroughly engaged by the material in the play.
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Kenneth Collins’ play You Are Not Alone at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a sometimes-poignant, often goofy story about teenagers finding love and acceptance among their peers at a Catholic boarding school. Although I found it a little after school special-y at parts, I would describe it as kind of like the really great episodes of Glee or Degrassi that kept me watching those shows season after season.
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I never expected to see improvisation at the Toronto Fringe Festival’s FringeKids! Now that I’ve seen Corral Blue Can’t Dance, I’ll be looking for it—though it only composed one part of this multifaceted kids’ variety show by Off Model Studios. Continue reading Corral Blue Can’t Dance! (Off Model Studios) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review