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.
The Circus is coming to the Toronto Fringe! So don’t run away, you can join it right here, tonight. See what happens when a town is captivated by this new arrival and follow the journey of a young boy seeing it all for the very first time. Will the young boy let his excitement carry him away? Will the ominous warnings of his blind mother be heeded and will she survive? Will the ringmaster’s true intentions ever be explained?
A poetic tale (delivered in French) for general audiences
L’enfant et l’homme is an encounter between two beings separated by everything — age, size, way of looking at the world. Monsieur Luc broods in his kitchen, classifying, ordering, dwelling on his thoughts. A child invades the kitchen. Monsieur Luc attempts to eject the little intruder, who persists and takes up residence… They struggle to understand each other.
From the makers of “The Lord of the Rings: The Musical: The Musical!” (Patron’s pick, Best of Fringe, 2007 Toronto Fringe Festival) comes this stunning, timely, very silly new production.
Taking our cue from “Mamma Mia!”, “Les Miserables”, and the countless Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-musicals currently trying to cash in on China’s sudden new love of tap dance and jazz hands, GIG Productions has decided to go east.
Australia’s own Lana Schwarcz is coming to Toronto Fringe Festival armed with 6 life-size puppets and a unit full of talking dentures. Performed and created by 2008 RAW Comedy Semi Finalist and award winning performer, Grandpa Sol is a truly unique solo show in the 2009 CAFF Touring Lottery.
AWARD-WINNING TEAM PUTS ON POLITICAL DRAMA ‘ARTIFACTS’ AT TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL
Artifacts is a play that asks where our commitments should lie when our professional duties clash with our ethnic identities. Michael is a dying archaeologist who together with his lover and research assistant Sandra uncovers an artifact that may stand as proof that Aboriginal peoples were not the first peoples in North America. Through engaging with the strange farmer who found the artifact and the Native council chief who wishes for its destruction, Sandra is caught between two worlds – her career as an archaeologist and her heritage as an Aboriginal woman.
