In the centre of Withrow Park, at the bottom of a small hill are planted two large trees. It is between these trees that Shakespeare in the Ruff is staging their inaugural performance. Just as they are a new version of an old company, so is their presentation of Shakespeare’s Two Gentleman of Verona, entitled Two Gents.
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Fantasies and Other Poisons presented at the Winchester Street Theatre is the inaugural performance by the dance group Fickle Things. It is a presentation of five solo works by Sharon B. Moore which were originally created for the performers in their final year at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
The solos follow five quirky characters as they struggle through their personal challenges. Sylphia, Mr. Leftovers, Oracle, Olga and Almost Queen share their crazy personalities with the audience through humorous dialogue and unexpected movement choices.
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There’s nothing quite like family. The Ballad of Herbie Cox presented by Co. Sum of Its parts & Cie. Jozsek Trefeli at the Randolph Theatre joins the dance innitiative at the Toronto 2012 Fringe Festival from Melbourne, Australia. It is a patchwork quilt of song, dance and spoken word woven together by family stories.
One of my favourite things about the Toronto Fringe Festival is that you never know what you’re going to get. In/side the Box created and performed by Sinéad Cormack at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Theatre was a show that fit the bill for unexpected.
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I was wary when siting down to see Empire of the Magic Beanstalks (Vampire Frog Productions) playing at the Palmerston Library Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival FringeKids! series. I find there to be a tendency in children’s theatre for the acting to be over-exaggerated and the script to hold far too many lines beginning with “Did you know?” For the most part this was, thankfully, not the case with this show.