What makes us hold onto things, and what makes us let go? Movement company Frog in Hand explores this idea in Heart of Matter at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Gripping, beautiful, and thoroughly stimulating, The December Man (L’homme de Decémbre), presented by Theatre@Eastminster, is currently playing at Eastminister United Church Community Space as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.

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Into The Tango by Pointe Tango is playing at Randolph Theatre at the Toronto Fringe Festival. I’ve never heard of pointe tango, I’ve never seen pointe tango, but apparently tango on pointe is a thing. Pointe Tango, based in Argentina, is the only dance company in the world that performs tango with pointe shoes and hey, it’s pretty cool! Continue reading Into The Tango (Pointe Tango) 2019 Toronto Fringe Review →

A Woman’s Guide to Peeing Outside by Holly M. Brinkman is a conversational, coming-of-age story. It’s playing at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival and it’s well worth watching for Brinkman’s humour and clever way of tying various urination incidents with her making discoveries about her body, identity and the culture around her.

Brinkman reads parts from A Woman’s Guide to Peeing Outside which is an actual book that’s been translated into several languages. So “peeing” gets mentioned dozens of times, and I’m happy to report that I’ve taken away a technique or two.

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Playwright Michael Ross Albert perfectly captures the hilarious chaos of a conference call in One Four One Collective‘s The Huns playing at the Streetcar Crowsnest Guloien Theatre for the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival.

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