There’s lots of clowning around with a skull at Denmarked at The Annex Theatre. Produced by Theatre Stoogette, it’s part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016.
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Birthday Cake (Alma Matters) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Time for Birthday Cake at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016! From Alma Matters Productions, Birthday Cake is an unusual and touching story by courageous actor Sarah Marchand. Come see it at Theatre Passe Muraille as long as you’re not on your first date with someone or with your straight-laced parents. This play will make you uncomfortable.
Birthday Cake is sad, hilarious, heart-wrenching, deviant and memorable. An actual birthday cake gets eaten, but there are things that get done to that cake that go beyond standard usage. I won’t spoil it, but I’ll say that it went from awkward to out of this world, and that the stage required heavy-duty cleanup after the show.
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Twelfth Night … A Puppet Epic (Shakey-Shake and Friends) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016 at the George Ignatieff Theatre, Twelfth Night … A Puppet Epic is a wacky take on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. Produced by Shakey-Shake and Friends, this tale of mistaken identities is full of wordplay and smooth puppet moves. You’ll be giggling and groaning for 60 minutes straight.
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Review: The Hobbit (Canadian Children’s Opera Company)
Tolkien opera played on stage in Toronto
Playing at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre Theatre, The Hobbit is an impressive, beautifully performed operatic production of Tolkien’s fantasy novel. With the exception of one old-timer, the cast ranges in age from three to nineteen years old.
My school-aged theatre companion is a Tolkien fan, so this opera was a treat for him. He enjoyed following this much beloved story that had Bilbo become adventurous and heroic as he attempted to outwit a dragon, and I’m thankful it was turned into an opera. Since I only vaguely know the story of The Hobbit, the surtitles proved to be a guiding light. Continue reading Review: The Hobbit (Canadian Children’s Opera Company)
Review: Le Placard/The Closet (Théâtre français de Toronto)
Le Placard is an Evening of Laughter: Go See this Parisian Comedy!
Le Placard/The Closet is a tried-and-true French comedy that will have you laughing and groaning at Francois Pignon’s personal and corporate misfortunes. We’re very lucky to witness his comic conundrums at the Théâtre français de Toronto.
Pignon is the creation of French playwright Francis Veber; Awkward Pignon tickled funny bones in L’Emmerdeur and Le Dîner de cons in Toronto as well, and I’m now regretful that I missed them. I lost two chances for another night of laughs. Continue reading Review: Le Placard/The Closet (Théâtre français de Toronto)