I’m going to have to start this review by admitting that I hold an embarrassingly unpopular opinion: I don’t really get the appeal of Pulp Fiction. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the Beyond the Mountain production of Bard Fiction that made its Toronto Fringe Festival debut tonight.
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Wow. I am absolutely awestruck by the unflinching intensity of the Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective’s brilliant adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar the Julius Caesar Project now playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Who would have thought that my favourite show I saw at the Toronto Fringe Festival tonight was going to be Bum Chic Productions’ In Denial: A One Woman Clown Show? I certainly didn’t when the show was assigned to me, but I am so glad it was.
To truly enjoy No One Needs to Know Shania put on by Lady Grey Productions for the Toronto Fringe Festival, I’d suggest you show up to The Monarch Tavern a little bit early, have a few beers, and then watch the magic of the Shania Twain biopic unfold through one excellent cover-band concert.
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Despite the best efforts of the actors involved, Emerald City: A Musical Play — put on by Baby Gumm Productions as a part of the Toronto Fringe Festival — is a disappointing execution of a somewhat exciting premise.
When Dorothy returns to Oz, she and her friends find that the solutions for their problems with their brains, heart, and courage, as suggested by the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, only solved their problems temporarily. As a result, they go together to get group therapy from Dr. Oz. But mostly, they just sing through their problems to the tunes of some public domain music.
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