The Unit 102 Theatre at Queen and Dufferin is an interesting space. It is a black box theatre, with the audience on two sides meeting at the downstage right corner, which also functions as an entrance and exit for the actors. It’s small so it can make for a very intimate theatre experience. The main […]
Click Here for our full coverage of the 2015 SummerWorks Festival. HYPER (A) Created and performed by Freye Björg Olafson, Hyper is a conceptual dance piece, incorporating projected videos, pictures, and even a little bit of 3-D. Different dance routines are choreographed to form a kind of narrative. We see her first in the flesh, wearing […]
After finding my way through the thick black curtain that marked the entrance to the Array Space theatre, I found myself in a beautiful, intimate world. A long dining table covered in academic books stood at the center of the candle-lit room. Smaller chairs and tables peppered the walls. A small bar stood in the […]
Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Anatolia Speaks (A) Anatolia Speaks is the story of a Bosnian woman in Canada giving a presentation on herself to her ESL class. Candice Fiorentino charms the audience from the start with her nervous awkward enthusiasm. Anatolia is trying to keep it light, noting […]
Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Adventures of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl (A-) Adventures of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl is a follow-up to last year’s Confessions of a Redheaded Coffee Shop Girl, both written and performed by Rebecca Perry. I didn’t see Confessions last year, but I got […]
Click Here for the Full List of our 2015 Toronto Fringe Reviews Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth (A-) A dramatic retelling of a children’s poem, Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth definitely surprised me. The performance is not just a straight telling, in more than one sense. They depict a straightforward version of the poem, but just when […]