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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Sharp-witted lovelorn shenanigans in Shakespeare Bash’d production of Love’s Labour’s Lost
Shakespeare Bash’d does it again at Toronto Fringe with its Victory Café location production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by James Wallis. The young King of Navarre and his three friends swear an oath of devotion to their studies, eschewing all forms of pleasure and recreation, including women. Enter the…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Taking a ride with downtown EMS folks in The Emergency Monologues
I never realized that the Toronto EMS folks had to deal with so much poo. Morgan Jones Phillips’ one-man show The Emergency Monologues is a series of anecdotes based on his real-life experiences as a downtown paramedic, now playing at the Theatre Passe Muraille main space as part of the…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: A complex relationship plays out randomly in Howland Company’s brilliant 52 Pick-up
The Howland Company’s production of TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi’s 52 Pick-up, directed by Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster and Paolo Santalucia, is a truly unique, moving and entertaining theatrical experience that audiences are loving at this year’s Toronto Fringe. Part sharply written theatre and part improv, 52 Pick-up tells the story…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: A moving, entertaining & eye-opening look at LGBT life in Salvador
Living in Canada, it can be easy to take our rights and freedoms for granted, and sometimes we need to be reminded that people in other countries are still struggling and fighting – and this is especially true for the LGBT community. Salvador, written by Rafael Antonio Renderos and directed…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: A rootin’ tootin’ wild west good time in Peter n’ Chris & the Kinda OK Corral
Peter n’ Chris (aka Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson) are back at Toronto Fringe, this time with their own brand of sketch comedy in Peter n’ Chris and the Kinda OK Corral – on now at the Randolph Theatre. Peter Earp and Texas Chris become unwitting allies in the fight…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Brave, sexy & frank talk about women’s joy of sex in Slut
Beer in a Glass Productions’ presents Erin Thompson’s Slut, directed by Dahlia Katz and running at the Annex Theatre as part of Toronto Fringe. Not used in a pejorative way, the “slut” in the title is used thematically – it’s one of the labels used to describe women who enjoy…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Punch drunk with laughter in Theatre Brouhaha’s Punch Up
Kat Sandler and Theatre Brouhaha bring it again big time with the dark comedy Punch Up, written and directed by Sandler, playing now at the George Ignatieff Theatre as part of this year’s Toronto Fringe. Stand-up comic/comedy writer Pat’s (Colin Munch) life is in the toilet, his wife/comedy team partner…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Hell hath no fury like these two women in Rarely Pure Theatre’s Valkyrie
Rarely Pure Theatre has a reputation for producing dark, edgy and thought-provoking pieces – and its Toronto Fringe production of Thomas McKechnie’s Valkyrie, directed by Bruce Gooch, is no exception. BFF gal pals Bradley (Monique Renaud) and Erin (Katie Ribout) have transformed themselves into knife-wielding, gun-toting, Krav Maga-practising avengers, Valkyries…
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