Into, playing at Tarragon Theatre Mainspace as part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival Festival was a hit at Fringe twenty years ago. My bet is that it’s going to be a hit this year too. It’s still fresh and funny, the best kind of dystopian comedy. I loved Dave Carley’s script. I admire someone who can imagine nuns skinny dipping and a traffic jam that lasts for months. Continue reading Into (Theatre Gridlock) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Wow! Two firsts for me. My first Sky Gilbert play and the first time I’ve seen David Benjamin Tomlinson. The play was Toller playing at Tarragon Theatre Extraspace as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival. I loved it. Except for the part I didn’t love.
It’s a beautiful production. The set is gorgeous: a wicker chair draped in long flowing white fabric, a small table with a candelabra, a wine decanter and wineglass, and a small heart-shaped box of chocolates. Continue reading Toller (Toller-on-the-run Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
La Cucina is playing at Factory Theatre Studio as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival. Playwright John Bressan’s first play, it’s set in Italy and has four acts. The characters include a bastard child; an aunt who killed herself, her husband, and said child by driving head on into a truck; Italian partisan fighters; and a Nazi officer. Not all of them appear on stage. Continue reading La Cucina (SouthPawScripts) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
How is it possible that I haven’t seen Graham Clark before this? I saw his show Instagraham at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace as part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival and he is so funny. My stomach muscles are still sore from laughing. I bet that the man who sat next to me also has sore stomach muscles too. And probably the woman who sat next to him. Probably everyone in the audience does. Continue reading Instagraham (Laugh Gallery) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Full Circle Theatre Company’s production of Scenes From Plays I Never Wrote is a play with a lesson, and it’s delightful, It’s playing at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival. I really enjoyed it. Continue reading Scenes From Plays I Never Wrote (Full Circle Theatre Company) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review