Criminal Girlfriends present Canadian playwright George F. Walker’s play Fierce in TorontoFierce is a new play written by Canadian playwright, George F. Walker, about the tug-o-war relationship between therapist and patient.
Helder Brum presents his hilarious one-man show at the John Candy Theatre in TorontoBorn with a Tale is a bright and silly one man show highlighting writer and performer Helder Brum’s greatest and most embarrassing moments from childhood mishaps, to young adult shame spirals.
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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s play Cake, now playing in Toronto, studies the human conditionCake is an interesting study of the human condition as it relates to money, power and manipulation.
In the first few moments of Cake, we see Femi (Yolanda Bonnell) come forward into the light. She has a solemn energy and dark, depressing eyes that stir up my own sadness the second she looks my way. Out comes Mabo (Tsholo Khalema), who’s quiet focus is garnished with an endearing sort of twinkle in his look.
The two engage in a sort of replay of what I gather is a traumatic memory of an earthquake. Holding their stomachs in, they’re in pain… I’m not so sure what’s going on yet and twenty minutes later… I’m still not completely sure…
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Second City strikes again with it’s raging Christmas show, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Sweater. I remember seeing a sketch show at Second City about 5 years ago when I first moved to Toronto. It was like an initiation into the city. It was fresh, hilarious and chock full of all the Canadian pop culture references I could handle. The comedy mecca’s current Christmas-y instalment is everything you would expect from a Second City show…and dare I say…and then some?
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Hart House Theatre’s rendition of this campy musical is “imaginative” and “unique”, on stage in TorontoThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is now in session at the Hart House Theatre and after personally seeing four productions of this campy musical comedy in my lifetime, I’ve decided that Hart House’s rendition is by far the most imaginative and unique I’ve ever seen.
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