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Happy Canada Day! It’s also a happy day for Cheap Theatre – instead of our typical Cheap Theatre listing, we’ll remind you that the Toronto Fringe Festival starts tomorrow. That’s 150 shows for $12 each – and cheaper if you get a package! Now that’s some truly Cheap Theatre – see you at the Fringe!
Toronto Fringe Festival (Fringe Toronto). The fest offers more than 140 shows featuring plays, dance, comedy and kids’ shows, plus art, music and multidisciplinary events. Opens Jul 2 and runs to Jul 13, various venues, dates and times, see website for details. $10 (adv $12), FringeKids plays $5 for kids; passes $45-$85. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.
The title of MUTE: The Musical made me do a doubletake. “Say what?”
So I asked the show’s creator, Alinka Angelova, to talk me through this ensemble performance about bullying, finding yourself, and liberation that has already toured the Canadian Fringe circuit to acclaim. It premieres July 2nd at the 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival (and I’ll be doing a review, too). Here’s what she told me:
There’s a lot of great theatre going on in Toronto for the week of June 30th, 2014. ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our Managing Editor, wish there were more hours in a day so he could check all of them out.
Last year playwright Rafael Antonio Renderos visited his family home in El Salvador, during that journey he reflected upon his life as a gay man and how different it could be if his parents hadn’t escaped the civil war. While exploring gay culture in that area, Rafael encountered an environment riddled with violence.
With World Pride just on the horizon for Toronto, it’s the perfect time for Rafael to debut Salvador at the Toronto Fringe, a production created after numerous interviews with homosexual individuals living in El Salvador. I took a moment to speak with Rafael about his show and the impact World Pride has on it. Keep reading for our conversation below.