I’m not sure if it is harder or easier to enjoy a children’s play without children. I suppose the answer might change depending on whether you actually have any (I don’t). But I believe that enjoyable theatre should be enjoyable despite the age level of the audience it’s aimed at, or the actual ages of audience members at any given show. Continue reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Mirador Theatre) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
I’m a sucker for magic realism. I love a story steeped in a world I recognize, breached by elements of fantasy. There is something very appealing about this hybrid of the real and the impossible. Continue reading Then He Wakes Up (Twisted Chaos Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
If you are going to go see The Stray‘s version of Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs at Fringe this year, bring a friend. You’ll want someone to discuss this show with after seeing it. I went solo and am now sitting alone in a café writing this review, wishing I had a pal to bounce my interpretations off of.
Continue reading The Chairs (The Stray) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
I enter the scene of The Virginity Lost & Found at this year’s 2012 Toronto Fringe Fest to find elderly gentle-lady Mary Pat Susan Jean (writer/performer S. Bear Bergman) seated at his/her desk, modestly dressed in a long flowered skirt, a light cardigan, and sensible men’s shoes.
Her/his short, grey bob is perfectly coifed, complementing his/her scruffy, brown beard. Continue reading The Virginity Lost & Found (Flamingo Rampant) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
Before I can write my review of CHRISTCHRISTCHRIST I need to get something out of the way – I’ve never seen a cuter Jesus. Or three cuter Jesuses. Allen (Jamie Ebbs), Michael (Max Tepper), and Phillip (Mark Johnson) are 2012 Toronto Fringe Fest’s Holy Trinity, three sons of God who can act and look good doing it. And Allen is the first to admit it, at one point claiming, “My body’s so good people say ‘Christ’s got a body,’ not ‘the body of Christ.’” Continue reading CHRISTCHRISTCHRIST (Theatre Stendhal) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review