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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Beautiful slow dance of intimacy & memory in Ninety
Saw another lovely two-hander at Toronto Fringe yesterday: Naked Goddess Productions’ Canadian premiere of Ninety, written by Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by Mercy Cherian – running at the Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) Mainspace. Isabel (Nicole Fairbairn, also the show’s producer) and William (William MacDonald) meet for 90 minutes in Isabel’s…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Moving account of a shameful piece of history in Man’s Dominion
My first show at Toronto Fringe yesterday was a recent addition to my schedule, as I arrived early at the Tarragon Theatre [link] Extraspace to get a ticket at the door for LA-based Pachyderm Productions’ Man’s Dominion, written by David Castro and directed by Dennis Neal. I’d first learned about…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: The ladies rule in bawdy, hilarious tale of scheming & revenge in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare BASH’d is back at the Victory Café again for Toronto Fringe this year, with a bawdy good fun production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, co-directed by James Wallis and Catherine Rainville. While the infamous drunken sot Sir John Falstaff (Sean Sullivan) schemes to get into the petticoats…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Complex dynamic of love, hate, friendship, art & success in Pool (No Water)
Cue 6 Productions has been getting some well-deserved buzz for its Toronto Fringe production of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water), directed by Jill Harper – running at the Tarragon Theatre mainspace. A group of young bohemian artists is torn apart by illness and distance – physical and emotional – and…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Danger, romance & chimps in Adventures of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl
The adventures of our favourite coffeeshop girl continue in Rebecca Perry’s Adventures of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl, directed by Matt Bernard and running now at the Annex Theatre for Toronto Fringe. When last we saw our intrepid Joanie Little (in Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl – and you needed…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: A quirky fun two-hander hashes out life, love & show business in A Lesson in Gabby
Last night, I was back at Tarragon Theatre, to the Extra Space this time, for Mark My Words-Ink’s Toronto Fringe production of A Lesson in Gabby, written by Labe Kagan and directed by Jacqui Burke. Playwright Jerry Kessler aka Groucho (James Robert Woods) is famous – or, rather, infamous –…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Hilarity ensues in multi-media sketch comedy trip through TV land in The McComedy Show
Toronto Fringe adventures continued yesterday at the Tarragon Theatre Solo Room with The McComedy Show, written by Shannon McDonough and Michael McLean, and directed by Margaret Smith. The pre-show music gets the audience set to go, with the nostalgic sounds of beloved TV theme songs from the 70s and 80s.…
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