Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews Trompe-La-Mort, or Goriot in the 21st Century (A) The great success of Trompe-la-Mort lies in the unexpected pairing of director Ted Witzel (an avant-garde intellectual with a strong visual aesthetic and Brechtian sensibility, known for mining timely poignancy from classical texts) and playwright Anthony […]

Staged within the pretty grounds and interior of the wonderfully fitting 17th century St Paul’s Church (the Actor’s Church) and situated in the heart of busy Covent Garden, Treasure Island is the second in-house summer production by the Iris Theatre. It is a new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, billed as an immersive, swashbuckling […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Weird: The Witches of Macbeth (A) Absolutely exquisite and mind blowing in its execution, Weird is the story of Macbeth as told from the perspective of the three witches. This play is a visual treat, with the three actresses performing arial stunts throughout the […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Knots (A) It’s a big task keeping an audience engaged at 10:30pm but Lucy Meanwell and Jake Runeckles have no problem doing that whatsoever in their show Knots. You might think a show about a topic as broad as knots sounds too experimental – […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews For The Record (A) It is a sweltering afternoon in the garage of Kops Records. I’m standing and sweating and uncomfortable. It’s my final show of the day and for Toronto Fringe and I just want to be in the beer tent already. The […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Blind to Happiness (A) An absolute must see. Tim C Murphy shines as a socially awkward dishwasher, an aspiring poet/line cook, and a PhD Psych student, breathing life and depth into each character, as well as many off stage ones as well. He immediately […]

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 The Unending – 3 Short Plays (A-) Site-specific plays always have the potential to be alienating experiences: a bunch of plucky actors demanding an extra degree of engagement from the audience as they move through a unique space or spaces. If the work itself […]