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Tickets go on sale today for the Toronto International Film Festival, and for the makers accepted part of the whole biz will be shmoozing and trying to find that missing piece in your post-production puzzle. Some suggestions if you are in this position:
1. Be approachable. If you are a group of people who’ve […]

“Stalin verses Akhmeteli” is a ten minute puppet story-telling that will be featured in the 2nd Anniversary Indyish Monthly Mess, Saturday August 9th 2008, at La Sala Rossa - 4848 St Laurent, Montreal, QC.
The piece was first performed at the Sardapi Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia in the spring of 2003. It was part of […]

(Alright, I wrote and promptly forgot to post this during the Fringe. Sorry Alan. Better late then never?)
Alan Shain is an Ottawa-based writer and performer who has worked over the years in theatre, storytelling, stand-up, dance and improv. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology, and a Master’s in Social Work. He […]

We Is Blunderstruck! begins in a refreshingly low-tech manner with a technician pressing play on a cassette-tape player with a mic pointed at the speaker. Blunderstruck is a band of three hard-rocking clowns whose shy uncertainty and DIY attitude make them incredibly endearing. Comparisons with the Fringe’s other clown-rock band, Die Roten Punkte, are inevitable, […]

When you’re spending time in a city other than your own, you always feel an extra degree of connection with, and pride for, your other hometowners who are also representing abroad. If those homies are representing with a killer b-boy/swing dance show, well — you can’t feel much prouder than that.
That was the feeling watching […]

Any Fringe Festival goer who has spent much time lining up at the Toronto Fringe has probably been approached by a large number of people handing out flyers, promoting their Fringe shows, highlighting the various stars they may have gained from this review or that and generally trying to say that if you only see […]

These days (as opposed to, say, the days of ancient Greece), anyone creating theatre has to deal with an inescapable truth: a lot of people just don’t care about live performance. Or at least, they’re not familiar with it. People tend to like the things they’re familiar with, and in the case of modern storytelling, […]

Chris “Hilarious” Gibbs is a mainstay at Fringe Festivals across Canada for good reason. His new show, The Further Adventures of Antoine Feval, allows him the opportunity to portray the type of character he works best with: the ignorant idiot. The show is a sequel to the more simply titled Antoine Feval, but this should […]

Enraged and eloquent, subversive and silly, acclaimed U.K. rantsmith Jem Rolls one-ups himself with this show (no small success, considering his past powerhouse performance pieces) and becomes an epic poet in his own fashion, spitting out an hour-long torrent of thoughts that is an anti-ode to consumerism and a lament for the state of the […]

Dance does not necessarily have to be understood in order to be appreciated and enjoyed. That said, however, The Reservation is a dance show which presents the audience with a theme (restaurant life) and some semblance of a plot (three women, two of them accompanied, arrive at a restaurant where misadventures ensue), but all of […]