Hey, parents! If you want a guaranteed hit with your kids, check out SOMETHING FROM NOTHING at Toronto Fringe.
With 300,000 performances and a Dora Award under it’s belt, you better believe this FringeKids! show, which has been touring around Canada since 1994, is as finely tuned as it gets. Both parents and kids will be laughing and wiping away tears. Continue reading SOMETHING FROM NOTHING (Cascade Theatre) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
In the solo musical Breaking Velocity, creator and star Megan Phillips has made it through a life-altering experience and all the way from Vancouver to the stage of Toronto Fringe.
Continue reading Breaking Velocity (Nutmeg Creations) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
With a real-time runtime of 28 minutes, Driving Home is possibly the shortest performance Toronto Fringe has to offer.
The creative result of first-time playwright Heather Sande’s 365 consecutive days of blogging, Driving Home is set in the same place many of us use to get to the theatre: the car. Continue reading Driving Home (Working Artist Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
OMG, mom. I’m still reeling from that incredible Sassy Roo Productions ride to Camp Schecky!
Hope they hang a really huge Toronto Fringe Festival sign on the side of the bus as it moves through the streets of the city. Because this 60-minute travelling performance is the ultimate ambassador of good theatre, good times and the joys of summer. Continue reading Camp Schecky. A Play on a Bus (Sassy Roo Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review
During the opening scene of The Dinner, a production by Upstage Productions as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, as the guests arrived two by two, I kept thinking: the tension’s so thick a bomb’s going to go off.
And then the first bomb was dropped. And then the second. And while that famous Chekov quote has it that if there’s a loaded gun on stage it’ll go off, there was no gun here.
This was a dinner, right. And no one said it would be a party. And nobody holds dinner parties anymore: they’re too loaded. Continue reading The Dinner (Upstage Productions) 2012 Toronto Fringe Review