Tag Archive for the term: toronto fringe (Page: 2)

Just a moment into Rearview, a drama set inside a moving car, I found myself wondering why am I here?
Three of us were wedged between two performers who seemed intent on acting as though we didn’t exist. A car is close quarters - maybe too close to erect a theatrical 4th wall between [...]

A lot of Torontonians seen to pay attention to big names in local theatre and awards for emerging artists. And that’s pretty cool…but Toronto’s Fringe is short on the dance and experimental performances - not to mention music and visual arts - that make Montreal’s “festival international d’expression libre” so unique.

A good one person show is easier to say then to do. You don’t get a break, the audience’s eyes are always on you and it’s up to you to create all the energy you can for them to feed off of so they can send some back to you. I think it was Ryan [...]

Fringe Festivals!! Good GAAWD I love them so. Why are they so effin’ fun??? What makes them so awwwwwesome? What magic potion of coolness do they brew?
Thoughts: collect thyself.
Ahem.
I just awoke from a surreal four/five hours of sleep, after an overnight “escape” from TO. We left the beer [...]

The cool thing about the Toronto Fringe is the high quotient of Pro’s (the cool thing about the Montreal Fringe is the high quotient of dance and international shows, but the Montreal Fringe is over now so stay focused Dickens). People who have dedicated their life to theatre and film, but especially theatre; people who [...]

A show that’s entirely in mime should be required to give due and fair and large-fonted warning to blurry eyed and unsuspecting theatre lovers stumbling into shows based soley on the program’s promise of Beatles lore. I saw Eleanor on Saturday- my first show of this Toronto Fringe - and left with such high blood [...]

Today is a happy day, because today Jem Rolls is performing the Fringe Festival, and I’m going to see him.
Jem is a true Canadian Fringe Circuit legend. The Scotsman is as much a constant to the Fringe as, well, St Ambroise ale. Last year my old roommate had a [...]