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.
The Soaps was a sold-out hit last year. This year it’s back as a Fringe fundraiser. It’s soooo funny and the cast makes it look easy, a tribute to their talent and experience (and weird minds). This is improvisation at its best.
Sometimes a Toronto Fringe show goes on to fame and fortune outside of the fringe circuit. Last year it was Kim’s Convenience. This year it could be The Wakowski Brothers. This is a play that should go on to bigger and better things.
It’s not the show I was expecting based on the program blurb. I thought it would be “a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants”. There was a lot of song and a lot of dance, no seltzer, a pie that didn’t get thrown, and a fairly complex story in between the vaudeville bits.
Judith Thompson wrote and directed Rare, the documentary-drama about Down syndrome that opened Thursday as part of the Fringe Festival.
The audience loved the show. We literally rose to our feet all together for a standing ovation as if it had been choreographed. There was a loud curtain call and there would have been more but the house lights came up – the universal signal for “show’s over folks”. Continue reading Rare (Diverse Creations) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review→
When I looked through the Fringe 2012 program I was really pleased to see that Jem Rolls was back was back with a new show, TEN STARTS AND AN END. I love Jem Rolls.
Rolls is a performance poet. Going to one of his shows is nothing like going to a poetry reading. At least not like any poetry readings I’ve been to. He’s always moving and there’s no reading involved. There is sometimes singing and tonight there was some audience participation – the good kind, in a group – no ‘volunteers from the audience’.
