All posts by Dorianne Emmerton

Dorianne is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program between University of Toronto, Erindale campus and Sheridan College. She writes short stories, plays and screenplays and was delighted to be accepted into the 2010 Diaspora Dialogues program and also to have her short story accepted into the 2011 edition of TOK: Writing The New Toronto collection. She is also a regularly contributing writer on http://www.sexlifecanada.ca. You can follow her on twitter @headonist if you like tweets about cats, sex, food, queer stuff and lefty politics.

Rowing (Chrysalis Workshop) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review

after-party scene, with two people passed out and a third with raised fists

Rowing by Chrysalis Workshop is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, in the site specific venue of a creepy unfinished basement accessed via an alleyway in Kensington Market. In it, a sad group of rowers who has garnered the first loss in their team’s 51 years of existence, attempts to throw a party and livestream it to raise money for charity.

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Tuck & Daisy (T&D Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Dustin George Hovey by Trevor Barker

Tuck & Daisy, by T&D Productions, is playing at  Toronto Fringe Festival as part of FringeKids.  Daisy (Adriana Crivici) is a rose, immobilized in her flower pot but strong in voice. Tuck (Greg Rola) is a clown who does not talk at all but dances almost constantly. They are visited by their neighbours, Pam the Pig (Karleena Kelly) who suffers from amnesia, and Hemingway the Spider (Jordi O’Dael) who quotes philosophy.

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The Pain in my Ass or: How to Adult (Lost in Line Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review

Photo of Feerass Ellid, Laura Ball and Evan Williams

The Pain in my Ass or: How to Adult, by Lost in Line Productions, is currently playing in the Toronto Fringe Festival. It follows Solomon (Feerass Ellid), a young man who just graduated from university as he decides what to do next with his life: do a graduate degree, go to teacher’s college, teach English abroad, or something else entirely.

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