The festival has officially begun, which means the reviews have started streaming in! We’re about 45 shows into a 160 show festival, and we already have a few raves that we can’t wait to tell you about! From comedy to drama, there’s something for everyone this year. Check out our first three “Daily Raves” below!
Continue reading Daily Picks from Raves at the 2018 Toronto Fringe (July 5th)
Adapted from the award-winning podcast of the same name, Gangway! Theatre Company’s Six Stories, Told at Night, currently playing at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, is a lyrical story about the ambiguous traumas of heartbreak and loss; but it’s also a mythic epic of self-discovery, empathy, identity formation, and the transformative power of storytelling. Most vitally, however, Six Stories is a fairy tale.
Continue reading Six Stories, Told at Night (Gangway! Theatre Co.) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
So, Toronto. We need to talk about The Pretend Men‘s Police Cops in Space at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Specifically, why you shouldn’t even bother reading this review and just go see it, pronto. I mean, I’m going to write you a review anyway, but you can just go ahead and buy a ticket to this hysterical, outrageous, madcap hurricane of a show now and rest assured you won’t be disappointed.
But alright, details. Continue reading Police Cops in Space (The Pretend Men) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
Pointed Cap Playhouse‘s CARMILLA tells the story of Laura (Stella Kulagowski), a friendship-starved young woman, and the intensely erotic relationship she builds with an alluring, fang-toothed stranger (the titular Carmilla, played by Heath V. Salazar) whose carriage overturns in front of her house one day. In other words, the show is a queer vampire burlesque show staged in a Victorian-themed Toronto bar, making it, in my opinion, one of the most memorable elevator pitches you’re likely to hear this year at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading CARMILLA (Pointed Cap Playhouse) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
From Press Release:
High school students from The Woodlands School in Mississauga, ON are making their debut at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, performing seven shows at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse between July 4-15, 2018.
The show is led by 17-year-old Julie Phan (writer, producer, lead actor), directed by 18-year-old Colwyn Alletson, and performed by 17-year-old Natalie Thai and 20-year old Nam Nguyen. The show explores the upbringing of the first-generation immigrants and the intergenerational conflict that arises from being raised with two colliding value systems. The existential plights of
young people are analyzed through the eyes of children who struggle to chase their dreams while fulfilling their filial duties.
After years of success in development through youth programming as The Woodlands Theatre Co. (participating in the Ontario Drama Festival, Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit, and Summerworks Festival), these young
creators are taking a giant leap forward in establishing themselves as independent artists by self-producing their own production.
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