Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews The Comedy of Errors (A) Shakespeare BASH’D bows out of the Fringe Festival with a fast and slick final show that is the most flat-out successful play I’ve seen so far at this year’s festival in terms of pulling off what it sets out […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews A Thousand Kindnesses (A-) Award-winning Scottish theatre practitioner Rachel Jury created an hour-long one-woman show based, the Fringe site declares, on ‘interviews with people who have escaped conflict’. Jury stands alone in the centre of the stage, wearing all black, and migrates from character […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews A Minor Mid-career Retrospective (A) James Judd performs his stories from a collection from the last 10 years of his career. It is advertised that each night is a different pick of stories and after seeing this show I’m tempted to see them all. […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Tonight’s Cancelled (B+) Tonight’s Cancelled is a well-performed sketch show by Torontonian comedy darlings Stacey McGunnigle and Jason Derosse. Not being a local, I’m not hugely aware of the theatre scene in Toronto so to walk into a packed house is a good sign. […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Bitesized (A-) As the opening monologue states, this is a show about things you love. It’s also about harder subjects (the environment, our treatment of native peoples, sexy Justin Trudeau). Through 16 short plays, the talents of this troupe are apparent – showcased are […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Silk Bath (A) Silk Bath Collective (Bessie Cheng, Aaron Jan, and Gloria Mok) assembles what is a very unique piece for a Fringe festival. In fact, it’s not often you can see a show in Toronto performed in Mandarin and Cantonese at all, unless, […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Falling Awake (A+) Falling Awake is the type of zany show you want to see early in the festival, so that you can have it in your back pocket for when you’re asked for a recommendation. The performers are delightfully charismatic and their show […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Denmarked (B-) Carina Gaspar takes on Elsinore in her clown-based reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the spirit of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (with fewer verbal fireworks and more physical exertion), Gaspar zeroes in on minor characters from the original play and pushes them […]