Bicycle Opera brings Shadow Box to TorontoAs I locked my bicycle to a pole outside of Curbside Cycle, the venue hosting tonight’s performance of The Bicycle Opera’s Shadow Box it occurred to me: I’ve never seen an opera before! This show, about memories – happy, tragic, sad – and our relationships to them, was an excellent first experience. Continue reading Shadow Box (the bicycle opera project)
Toronto’s Videofag presents Cherry Corsage, a colourful show with queer references and ’90s musicThe pink Starbust I’m sucking on, courtesy of the wonderful candy bar at The Citadel Theatre – where I just saw Videofag‘s Cherry Corsage – feels to me like a metaphor for the show: delicious, chewy, brightly packaged, pretty, full of incomprehensible ingredients, best enjoyed in small amounts, and not necessarily everyone’s favourite in the pack.
While waiting to enter the makeshift basketball court at The Theatre Centre to see Monday Nights – an “interactive immersive bromance” show by 6th Man Collective – we see a sign, some pieces of paper, and pencils.
“Write your wish, and place it in the basketball,” the sign tells us. So I, my companion, and mostly everyone else in the room does just that. As I’m revelling in the novelty, sneaking a second wish into the split open basketball and reading the court rules posted on the door, a whistle blows. A referee is now commanding our attention. I’m already excited – and it only gets better.
Where to even begin in describing Passing Through Theatre’s show Beginagame, part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival? I just returned from seeing this strange, funny, glittery show and I’m still feeling a bit confused. Continue reading Beginagame (Passing Through Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review
This afternoon, I had a chance to see the Adventureland show Zach Zultana: Space Gigolo at Tarragon Theatre Mainspace, part of the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival. It’s an ambitious production that tells the tale of a space miner turned lover turned union hero, but… sometimes ambition just ain’t enough. Continue reading Zach Zultana: Space Gigolo (Adventureland) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review