All posts by Megan Mooney

Megan loves being in the thick of all things theatre, but her ultimate goal is to promote theatre to the world of non-theatre people. It was the same when she was the theatre writer for blogTO, or the Fringe Correspondent for CBC Radio One‘s Here and Now, as it is as the founder of Mooney on Theatre. Her basic belief is that there is theatre/performance out there for everyone to love, they just need to find it. This is not to be confused with the idea that everyone should love theatre for theatre’s sake, in fact, as obsessed as she is with theatre, even *she* doesn’t love all types of theatre.

FringeKids for Free – Ancient Woods, Saturday 3:45pm

contest-web-graphic The third offering in our FringeKids focus is Ancient Woods, a show full of audience participation to keep kids engaged.

To be entered to win a pair of free tickets to Saturday’s 3:45pm showing of Ancient Woods at the Palmerston Library Theatre all you need to do is leave a comment* sometime before 11:30am Saturday.

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FringeKids for Free – Scaredy Kat, Saturday 2:05pm

contest-web-graphic Once you’ve seen As You Puppet then stick around for Scaredy Kate, which has garnered 4 stars from EYE and also features a few puppets.

To be entered to win a pair of free tickets to Saturday’s 2:05pm showing of Scaredy Kat at the Palmerston Library Theatre all you need to do is leave a comment* sometime before 11:30am Saturday.

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FringeKids for Free – As You Puppet, Saturday 12:25pm

contest-web-graphic As You Puppet is a critic’s pick from NOW, and got 5 stars from EYE.  Definitely a lot of positive buzz on this one.  And, I suspect that it’ll be sold out, but lucky for you, there are a couple of tickets set aside for some lucky Mooney on Theatre reader.

To be entered to win a pair of free tickets to Saturday’s 12:25pm showing of As You Puppet at the Palmerston Library Theatre all you need to do is leave a comment* sometime before 10:30am Saturday.

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FringeKids focus for this weekend’s Fringe for Free

So, this weekend is a perfect time to check out the FringeKids.  So, I’ve got contests going on to help you on your way.  Enter them all, you never know, maybe you’ll win them all and get a full day of free Fringing out of the deal!

On Saturday I’ll be giving away FringeKids tickets to:

As You Puppet

Scaredy Kat

Ancient Woods

Derrick and Mr. Sock

The Sleuth Sisters

 

The contest will be posted shortly, stay tuned!

Sometimes at Mooney on Theatre we do a ‘2nd Opinion Review’

by Megan Mooney

So, a lot of you have come here because of Fringe, which means you may not know the background and philosophy.  And, this is actually kind of a weird time to bring it up, except that I will soon be posting a ‘2nd Opinion Review’ and I figure it might help to have some context.

One of the core tenets of Mooney on Theatre (MoT) is that everyone’s opinion is just that.  Opinion.  There is no authoritative source on what is good and what is bad, what is quality and what is schlock.  There is only ‘what I liked’ and ‘what I didn’t like’ – which, clearly, is going to vary from person to person.

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