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.
This afternoon I saw Rovero and Juliet at the Palmerston Library. I had hoped to have a kid with me but he couldn’t come so I was there on my own. I was a bit concerned that it would seem weird, an adult at a kid’s show without a kid but I needn’t have worried. We made up about half the audience.
The show is a re-telling of the Shakespeare play but with puppets and a happy ending. In this play the feud is between the Muttagues and the Catulets, the nurse is a cow and the friar is a camel. All the characters find true love, so it’s a happy ending all round. Continue reading Rovero and Juliet (The Manipulators) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
One Side of an Ampersand is the first production by Flying Radio Theatre, a company formed by Ryerson Theatre students and graduates. It’s written and co-directed (with Jasmin Goode) by Julie McCann. The cast is Zoe Brownstone as Alice, Hilary McCormack as Helen, Rebecca Perry as Daisy, and Chris Whidden as Helen’s former lover whose name I have completely forgotten. Sorry. (editor’s note: His name is Will)
The play actually has the making of a farce but it isn’t played that way.
I love autobiographical solo performances, or, in the case of Threads, biographical solo performances. Tonya Jone Miller’s play is based on her mother’s experiences in Viet Nam in the late 60s.
It’s a fascinating story. We often hear about ‘GI babies’, the children of Vietnamese women and foreign servicemen but in Tonya’s case her mother is American and her father was Vietnamese, very unusual for the time. Continue reading Threads (Tonya Joan Miller) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
Radio :30 opened tonight to a full house so if you want to see it make sure that you arrive early to get tickets.
I’m not sure that there is a ‘typical’ Fringe show but if there is Radio :30 isn’t it. It’s a fine example of what a Fringe show can be when it grows up. Chris Earle wrote Radio :30 and performed it at Fringe in 1999. Since then it’s won both a Dora and a Chalmers award. Continue reading Radio :30 (the night kitchen) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
This is the second year that The Soaps has been asked at the last minute to step in for a Fringe show that has cancelled. It’s terrific news for me. I love The Soaps, as you can tell from my review of last year’s show. The cast is fast, funny, and very talented.
It’s good news for Fringe because the show is a Fringe fund raiser so all the money from ticket sales goes to Fringe.
This afternoon I saw Rovero and Juliet at the Palmerston Library. I had hoped to have a kid with me but he couldn’t come so I was there on my own. I was a bit concerned that it would seem weird, an adult at a kid’s show without a kid but I needn’t have worried. We made up about half the audience.
This is the second year that