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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Peeling back the layers in the funny, frank, insightful feminist excavation Operation SUNshineJennifer McKinley takes us on an unusual reclamation project in her father’s basement bathroom in her one-woman show Operation SUNshine, directed by Clara McBride and running at St. Vladimir Theatre for Toronto Fringe. Tasked with preparing her father’s home for sale, McKinley tackles the most complex—and unusual—part of the cleaning…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Two men reach out for each other in times of division & change in the intimate, tender, layered The Seat Next to the KingTanisha Taitt directs Minmar Gaslight Productions’ run of Steven Elliott Jackson’s beautifully compelling The Seat Next to the King, winner of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Best New Play contest, now running in the Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) Mainspace. Opening in 1964 in a public washroom in Washington, D.C., The Seat…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Mom goes on the run to keep her daughter safe in chilling sci-fi thriller RecallSeven Siblings Theatre takes us to a grim world in the not so distant future with their Toronto Fringe production of Eliza Clark’s Recall, directed by Will King, assisted by Erik Helle, and running at the Theatre Centre. The play opens with Justine (Genevieve Adam) laughing at a reality TV…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Bawdy, silly good times with Macbeth in the wacky fun Weirder Thou ArtBouffon meets Shakespeare in Physically Speaking’s production of Weirder Thou Art, written and directed by Ardyth Johnson, and running at St. Vladimir Theatre for Toronto Fringe. The three witches from Macbeth—The Virgin (played with a fierce feminist energy by Ronak Singh), The Matron (Stephen Flett in the delightfully bombastic and…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Trippy good times as philosophy meets stand-up meets storytelling in Graham Clark’s Not HereGraham Clark returns to Toronto Fringe—or does he?—with Graham Clark’s Not Here, running in the Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) Backspace. Speaking to us via video from a small monitor mounted in front of a masked “surrogate” performer’s face, Clark gives a multimedia talking head performance—and the surrogate provides accompanying posture…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: So much big puppet fun in the hilariously playful, genuine Bendy Sign TavernFrom movie-inspired favourites like Swordplay: A Play of Swords and last year’s Fringepocalyptic Wasteland, Sex T-Rex keeps on bringing it as one of Toronto’s best scripted comedy companies. And this time, there’s puppets! Sex T-Rex returns to Toronto Fringe with Bendy Sign Tavern, featuring the work of master puppeteer and…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Love, joy & taming dragons in the funny, frank, moving The Clergy ProjectA rabbi, a minister and a priest walk into a theatre… Happy Fringe, guys! I started my Toronto Fringe adventures with the opening of Soulo Theatre’s production of The Clergy Project, directed by Tracey Erin Smith, which played to a sold-out house and a standing ovation last night at First…
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Continue reading →: cowbell blog: Changes to Toronto Fringe coverageHi all. Have some news before coming out my annual June hiatus next week—and before we head out for the long weekend. As many of you know, life with more cowbell is a one-person, unpaid, part-time passion project; this means I support myself with a day job. My previous full-time…
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Continue reading →: cowbell blog on June hiatusIt’s June already—and that means it’s time for the cowbell blog’s first annual hiatus of the year (the second is in December). I’ll still be seeing some shows, and shouting stuff out on social media; just not covering them on the blog. Have a lovely month. See y’all in July.
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Continue reading →: The implications of a kiss: When Raymond met Mimi in a hilarious, moving, cerebral Blind DateBack by popular demand from its 2015-16 season, Tarragon Theatre wraps its 2016-17 season with Spontaneous Theatre’s production of Blind Date, created by Rebecca Northan. This run of the improv date night hit features Northan, Christy Bruce and Tess Degenstein as rotating Mimis, and Bruce Horak as various other characters.…
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