Tag Archive for the term: toronto fringe

BONDAGE
reviewed by El Gato!
Whoa. I love comedy. And clown, and stuff like that. And I went into this show thinking a bunch of things. First, it had gotten a ton of great press. Second, a bunch of people I’ve talked to did not enjoy it as much as the reviewers. Third, I was scared. [...]

RUM AND VODKA
as reviewed by El Gato!
If you’re planning on seeing Cart/Horse’s production of Rum and Vodka, I advise you go drinking the night before. Or just spend a couple of days at a Fringe Fest. I find that even by second-hand binging, you end up feeling grrrreat the next day. Ready for a show [...]

Ahhh, I wish I was able to scoot back to Toronto this weekend to catch the tail end of the Summerworks Festival.
Summerworks is a pretty incredible theatre experience, so if you’re in the area get yerself over there and check it out. It’s a curated juried festival, unlike the first come first serve fun [...]

Last Friday night the Indyish crew celebrated our arrival in Toronto with a bunch of beers at the Tranzac (served up by the lovely Cassandra of Calamity Royale). Fringe flyers were flying (as they are wont to do) and the one that managed to come to focus despite my increasingly blurry vision was for a [...]

Blogging LIVE from Cagibi (the café formerly known as Esperanza) in Montreal’s Mile End.
So, Toronto Fringe. The best show I saw by far during my fast-paced, hops-laden, non-intentionally comedy-heavy Fringe weekend, was Chris Gibbs‘ “Gibberish.” Having been employed with the Toronto Fringe last summer as the volunteer coordinator, I had worked [...]

20 minutes into Reesor I wanted to stand up and yell THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLAY. heh. seriously. I loved it.
It is described thusly in promotions:
Between 1926-1945, 400 people called Reesor, Ontario home. Now, all that remains is a pile of stone. Surrounded by wilderness, alone in the bush, how do you build a home? [...]

More face reviews for you (first segment of one shot reviews), of shows currently playing at the Toronto Fringe. Check out the Fringe site for details on each one…
Here’s a review of Bash’d.. (here’s one where I use my words)

Here’s Bye Bye Bombay…

And a review of Die Rotten Punkte

This is my one shot review of [...]

A true story! A Dickens kid came to Canada and worked as an RCMP officer, and then Canadian humourist Eric Nicol wrote a fictionalized series of letters from him, published in best selling novel form as Dickens of the Mounted. And then these guys made it a play.
I feel weird and twitchy [...]

They picked the title, not me.
“Worst Show Ever” is written and performed by Toronto actors/comedians James Hartnett and David West Read, with Susannah Kiernan as the third-wheel-actress cum token-chick (who despite this unfortunate subjugation has some great acting chops). I was really excited to see it, since back in Uni I’d both performed with [...]

A bitchin, biting play about 2 kids raised in a co-op farm in Western Canada - all naked hippies and humanism at a young age and talent shows where everyone wins. Legoland, a play by award winning culty-following young crew, Atomic Vaudeville, is what this co-op, grow-op calls the rest of the world. And Legoland [...]