Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Butt Kapinski (A) Deanna Fleysher’s one-person show is a parody of both the figure of the private eye and film noir. She has crafted a comedic mystery that is built on her excellent characterization, audience improvisation, and a choose-your-own-adventure type structure to the plot, […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews The Food Project (A-) A collective-oriented company, Theatre by Committee’s show is essentially a glorified commercial about the state of the food industry in Canada. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and they make what could very easily turn into a polemic into […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Nasty Woman (A-) Written and performed by Kathryn Landon, Nasty Woman is part stand-up, part one-woman show about Landon’s struggle growing up as a poor woman in Toronto. Landon is a natural performer, easily connecting with her audience and her own emotions as she […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews soaring through liquid skies (B+) Franco Nguyen’s one-man show about his childhood and his education about his mother’s personal struggle with leaving Vietnam for a new life with a neglectful husband is entirely charming. The performance is comprised of Nguyen’s narration, some action, and […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews WILD/WALLED (A-) This dance piece created by Tracey Norman, Alison Daley, and the Half Second Echo company is a pure delight. The show explores the walls we throw up both in society and in our relationships, and the resulting conflicts, emotions, and expressions. The […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Lysistrata (A-) I’m not much for crowds, so when Fringe starts I’m always a little anxious about all the bustle. But Lysistrata is exactly the right thing to seduce you into the spirit of the festival. The site – Painted Lady at Dundas and […]
This dance-opera conceived and designed by co-directors Michael Greyeyes and Yvette Nolan and librettist Spy Denommé-Welch investigates the emotional history and contemporary cultural significance of Canada’s residential school system. The production itself is multi-faceted, combining orchestral music, a choir, opera, and modern dance. The story divides into three movements: in the first, the dancers enter […]
Echo Productions’ latest production, Context, attempts to recreate the subjective experience of anxiety. One hour long, the show first depicts the evening of Jamie, a burgeoning artist, who attends an art show after being absent from the community for quite some time. They then retrace the same events, but from Jamie’s perspective, highlighting her emotional […]