Can you save a life with comedy? That’s the question Theatre Brouhaha asks in the Toronto Fringe Festival production of Kat Sandler’s Punch Up. I’m not sure if any lives were saved on opening night, but there were certainly audience members doing the ugly laugh-cry. This is one hysterical show. Continue reading Punch Up (Theatre Brouhaha) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
One might expect a show that has a Russian name in the title and is playing at the notoriously chilly St. Vlad’s theatre to be a rather cold experience, but Karenin’s Anna, presented by Squeaky Wheel Productions, is just the opposite. Playing now as part of this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, Karenin’s Anna is a show that works perfectly in such an intimate setting, and is also one that Fringers should get their tickets to soon.
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Debuting at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, Erin Thompson and Beer in a Glass Productions presents SLUT, her one woman show that explores sex, sexuality, and relationships in the modern world. It’s like Sex and the City through the eyes of one woman continuing and expanding from where Carrie and the girls left off.
It’s a very appropriate time for Thompson to debut this particular show. In the face of the current #yesallwomen movement in response to the current onslaught of misogyny and violence against women that has plagued our society as of late, this show acts as a voice for women to embrace their sex and sexuality no matter how they choose to express it.
Continue reading SLUT (Beer in a Glass Productions) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review
At the Toronto Fringe Festival as part of FringeKids!, Elly’s Emotions, playing at the Palmerston Library, is a high-energy must-see musical produced by Daley Productions. It speaks to today’s kids for whom video games replace make-believe games, and being a creative, non-consuming daydreamer can make a child “weird”.
Written by Johnson & Johnston, the play is about how Elly (Torri Webster) struggles to keep her friends who no longer appreciate her lack of “stuff.” Her former pals are drawn to the kid with the Wii. Now who will come to her birthday party when there won’t even be a bouncy castle?
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An Ode To Dyads is a compact dance theatre piece performed by Hannah Kaya and Connor Spencer at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace at the 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival. The performance explores the dyadic relationship between two beings in a strange world where the passage of time and emotional shifts are dictated by a single ring of a kitchen timer. This is a world with its own specific logic that may not make sense immediately to the audience but is very clear for the onstage duo. Continue reading An Ode To Dyads (Fishbowl Collective) 2014 Toronto Fringe Review