We’re almost at the end of the festival, and this is (sadly) the last day of contests from us here at Mooney on Theatre! Hopefully you’ve had time to see most of the shows you want, but just in case, we’ve got six final shows that might strike your fancy! Check ’em out beneath the cut and make some plans for Friday, July 14th!
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As the Toronto Fringe Festival rolls merrily along, we hope you’ve had time to take in a wide variety of shows, from the immersive plays to the dance showcases to the sketch comedy shows!
With such a wide variety to choose from thanks to the 160-show output this year, you almost certainly haven’t seen everything worth seeing yet. That’s where we come in: below the cut, we’ve got five more shows up for grabs for Tuesday, July 11th! Continue reading Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe Ticket Giveaways for Shows on Tuesday, July 11th
From deep, deep within the dark zones of the Toronto subway system, a (literal) underground revolution is brewing, fronted by a metropass counterfeiting ring that puts Toronto’s commuters in mild danger of delay. There’s only one team capable of putting on the breaks: the (technically disbanded) TTC transit police. These Special Constables, if you will, are here to save the city at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival—but the conspiracy goes even deeper than you might think. Continue reading Special Constables (Greenline Theatre and Circlesnake Productions) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
It’s the end of the world, and two strangers find themselves sharing a bench in a train station, waiting for the lottery that will decide who gets to take the last train south from Paris. In Now What Theatre‘s Kara Sevda, playing as part of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, the question is not so much if the world is ending, but what it means to keep surviving. Continue reading Kara Sevda (Now What Theatre) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
What would you do if you could turn back time? As it turns out, there are only so many ways humanity can profoundly change the course of history. When time travel hits the open market, it’s not long before everyone’s already done the good stuff. Someone’s already gotten to Hitler, so why not go back and change something a little more low-stakes? Like, say, the course of a beleaguered actor’s career? Such is the set-up of Bugger the Butterfly, a quirky and winning Twilight Zone-style comedy by Pencil Neck Theatre that’s currently playing as part of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Continue reading Bugger the Butterfly, Or My Sci-Fi Hollywood Adventure (Pencil Neck Theatre) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review