Let’s Start A Country!, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is an unusually-formatted show that works. Enlisting the participation of the audience in a bid to create a micronation out of the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace, with the help of a well-picked cast including writer Gerard Harris, manages to make people laugh and think at once. Harris explains just how Let’s Start A Country! came about.
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Anatolia Speaks (Poiema Productions) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
The St. Vladimir Theatre hosts the Toronto Fringe Festival debut of Anatolia Speaks, a one-person show featuring actor Candice Fiorentino as a Bosnian refugee telling her life story. This show is occasionally sad, sometimes funny, and always compelling — a quiet gem of theatre that needs to be seen.
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Let’s Start A Country! (That’s Enough Drama) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
For Canadians of a certain age who remember the constitutional debates of the 1990s, the idea that separatism could inspire a interactive sketch comedy might seem counterintuitive. Let’s Start A Country!, a show in the Toronto Fringe Festival currently playing at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace, does just that and succeeds, thanks to the originality of its premise and the skill of its actors.
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The Philanderess (Truth ‘N’ Lies Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
The Philanderess is a farce by playwright and actor Sophia Fabiilli, currently playing at the Annex Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. This update of the classic George Bernard Shaw comedy The Philanderer is an unqualified success that deserves full houses.
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All Our Yesterdays (AnOther Theatre Company) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
All Our Yesterdays is an intense drama by Chloe Hung that draws from the infamous April 2014 mass abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria. Currently being staged at the Factory Theatre Studio as part of the Toronto Fringe, All Our Yesterdays gives its audience every reason to care about these victims and their hell on Earth.
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