Do you like history? Tara Travis stars as all six of Henry VIII’s dead wives in TIL DEATH: The Six Wives of Henry VIII playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. They find themselves before the gates of heaven. Before they can enter, there’s a little bit of a problem they need to solve. Only one of them can sit next to him for eternity, and they will need to decide which one of them it is going to be.
There is space for unapologeticly angry funny theatre. It’s Getting Hot in Here! at the Toronto Fringe Festival very much stakes that space out and refuses to move from it. It is a hilariously self-aware, dreamlike set of internal monologue vignettes from inside the mind of someone who is faced with a ballot box and a choice in front of them.
An Orchid And Other Such Lilies And Lies (playing at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival) is an interesting, “existential” style play that follows two old friends on their quest to end their lives in the middle of the desert. It’s a study on grief and how one’s perspective on life can change when faced with the enigma of death.