When Habib Siam told us that Jean Paul, the second performer and producer of Wha’ Ha’ Happened Was…, playing now at the Toronto Fringe Festival, couldn’t come to the July 6th show because of a family emergency, I panicked. Spending the next eighty minutes with one guy on a mic wasn’t exactly what I had signed up for. I feared boredom, but I was wrong. The show went by in a flash.
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Peanut Tree Productions presents Sweet Kiss – Tender Limbs, now playing at the Toronto Fringe. The show revolves around new motherhood and its accompanying anticipation, excitement, joy, anxiety, isolation, and insecurity.
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Deep End, produced by New Story Productions and playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is the story of a bullied girl at a pool party. Continue reading Deep End (New Story Productions) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Scadding by Common Boots Theatre is a site-specific collection of short audio plays inspired by the area around the Scadding Court Community Centre, the home of Postscript: the outdoor patio hub of the Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s an interesting piece of site-specific art but I’m not sure I’d really classify it as theatre. Continue reading Scadding (Common Boots Theatre) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review
Ether, currently playing at Toronto Fringe Festival, is a show about what happens in the space between being alive and being dead, that moment of breath between survival and your last one. The show is made up of three interconnected-ish vignettes where people are dealing with that moment between life and death. They all have moments where they wonder where they are, what’s going to happen to them, and re-enactments of what in their lives led them to the Ether.
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