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Fringe Review: 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls – Birdtown and Swanville

By Megan Mooney

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Birdtown and Swanville’s 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls is a delight.  It’s got a good helping of the surreal, so if you want everything wrapped in a bow this likely won’t be for you. 

However, if you like your humour a bit esoteric and your dancing a bit silly then this is the show for you.  I really liked it a lot.  I loved the props made out of flat cut out cardboard.  I loved the over the top feel.  I loved the interludes between scenes.  So, I guess basically, I loved it.

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Fringe For Free: Head First, Sunday July 5 at 4pm

contest-web-graphic I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity to see aerial dance, or what I used to call “ribbon dancing” because it looked like the dancers were holding onto huge ribbons to facilitate their movements through the air, but it is a sight to behold.

And, here is your opportunity to check it out for free…

Two tickets to the Sunday July 5th performance, at 4pm of Head First at Theatre Passe Muraille.

To enter the contest, just leave a comment*  by 1pm on Sunday July 5.

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Fringe For Free: BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic – Sunday at noon

contest-web-graphic In this world of decluttering books cluttering the landscape, maybe this show will have a few lessons.

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to BAGS for the 12pm show on Sunday July 5 playing at Glen Morris Theatre.

To enter the draw, all you need to do is leave a comment* sometime before 10am tomorrow (Sunday) to be entered for tickets to tomorrow’s show. 

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