Always a theatre lover Sam realized in middle age that there's more to Toronto theatre than just mainstream and is now in love with one person shows, adores festivals, and quirky venues make her day.
Seven more 10-minute plays arrive on the Toronto stage through InspiraTO Festival
On Thursday night I saw blueShow at the InspiraTO Festival. On Friday I saw redShow, which is the same format as blueShow – seven 10 minute plays in 70 minutes. The sets are minimal, and the backdrops are projections.
The difference between blue and red? According to the website, if you like your plays “full of passion,” this (redShow) is for you. blueShow is for you if “you like your plays sublime.” On Friday, I learned that I’m a blueShow kind of girl. Continue reading Review: redShow (InspiraTO Festival)→
InspiraTO Festival brings seven strong 10-minute plays to the Toronto stage
Sometimes you get a gift that you weren’t expecting. After a long and frustrating day, I went to the opening night of the 10th season of the InspiraTO Festival at Alumnae Theatre to see blueShow, a show comprised of seven ten-minute plays in 70 minutes.
This was the first time that I had been to InspiraTO, and I think I was expecting something a bit like Fringe. Sort of ‘you pay your money and you take your chances,’ but it wasn’t like that at all.
The play falls into the Theatre of the Absurd genre and was written by Slavomir Mrozek in Communist Poland in the early 1960s. The play is full of ‘lessons’ that are as relevant today as they were 55 years ago in Poland. The wonderful thing about Theatre of the Absurd is that no one beats you on the head with a stick. The play is very funny, the wordplay is brilliant. Continue reading Review: Out at Sea (Leroy Street Theatre)→
