Devon More Music’s Silent Party Interlude at the Toronto Fringe Festival took me by surprise, and impressed my socks off. When I first read the description of a show about the life changing journey one woman makes on a meditation retreat, I was skeptical. I was expecting an incomprehensible, new age, navel-gazing kind of show. Continue reading Silent Party Interlude (Devon More Music) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review →

Parallel Play is a dynamic sketch comedy show starring Elvira Kurt and Megan Fahlenbock playing at Tarragon Extraspace at the 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival. The show simulates the cycle of life; it begins with a scene in vitro and ends with the death of ‘Brain’.  Parallel Play is whip smart, achingly neurotic and unequivocally hilarious. Continue reading Parallel Play (Parallel Play Productions) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review →

I’m going to have to start this review by admitting that I hold an embarrassingly unpopular opinion: I don’t really get the appeal of Pulp Fiction. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the Beyond the Mountain production of Bard Fiction that made its Toronto Fringe Festival debut tonight.

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The Legend of White Woman Creek by The Coldharts is a unique musical that is thankfully present at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. The show begins with a professor, played by the talented Katie Hartman, who has become obsessed with the tale of Anna Morgan Faber. Hartman confides that Faber, also called Anna-Wee , is the ghost that haunts a creek in Kansas. Hartman places candles around her and performs a seance, invoking Anna-Wee. The circle is completed, Hartman is possessed, and she sings her tale.
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