Mike was that kid who walked into the high school stage crew booth, saw the lighting board, and went ooooooooooooh. Now that he’s (mostly) all grown up, Mike keeps his foot in the door as a community-theatre producer, stage manager and administrator. In the audience, he’s a tremendous sucker for satire and parody, for improvisational and sketch-driven comedy, for farce and pantomime, and for cabaret of all types. His happiest Toronto theatrical memory is (re) Birth: E. E. Cummings in Song.
Good evening, people of Fringe! This is a special late-night edition of Fringe for Free, or — as we call it internally — the “someone forgot he had contests to post and wound up in a 14-hour rehearsal, didn’t he” edition. To commemorate this special occasion, we’ll be holding these contests open an extra few hours, so they close at 11:00 PM instead of the usual 7:00.
But beyond that, it’s the same as always: five hot shows, free tickets to each, and all you need to do to win is send us an email. Enter one, enter all five, tell your friends, and see some theatre!
Far Away is a fable about a world where war has so thoroughly consumed the planet that nature itself has begun to take sides: the cats are in cahoots with the Argentinians, the river is working with the dentists, and nobody is totally sure where gravity’s loyalties lie.
Caryl Churchill‘s script is fiercely abstract, set over fifteen years and sprawling as large as the director allows. This Toronto Fringe production finds its anchor in movement, threading careful choreography through every scene and moment, which makes this production a joy to watch –and peculiarly accessible.
Asiansploitation is a local comedy institution: an all-Asian company which strives to create work for audiences who — except for nerds and “kooky ethnics” — rarely get to see themselves in comedy spaces.
Happy Canada Day, Toronto! Between Pride, Fringe and a public holiday, we at Mooney on Theatre are super stoked for this weekend: we might even get to see the sun between reviews! And, say, have you made it to the Fringe Club yet? You should go!
But we’re here for business: five productions which have agreed to raffle off a pair of tickets for Sunday, July 3rd. Click the jump to find out what we have on-tap!
In Tonight’s Cancelled, two friends and comedy rockstars have stitched together a Second City-style revue. The totally-accidental gimmick is that, by drawing from their own lives and experiences, they’ve produced something that takes off in an unusual direction.
As with the Second City itself, Fringe Festival sketch troupes tend to skew young. Like, under-25 young. I say this with affection, but both of the people behind Tonight’s Cancelled are a little over that age limit, in the awkward place where they’re neither Young Edgy Emergent Comedians nor totally comfortable and at ease as adults. That zone becomes their sandbox, and the stories which emerge become sketches you genuinely won’t see anywhere else. Continue reading Tonight’s Cancelled (CoWorkers) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review→
Good evening, people of Fringe! This is a special late-night edition of Fringe for Free, or — as we call it internally — the “someone forgot he had contests to post and wound up in a 14-hour rehearsal, didn’t he” edition. To commemorate this special occasion, we’ll be holding these contests open an extra few hours, so they close at 11:00 PM instead of the usual 7:00.
