Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Theatre ARTaud, Filament Incubator & Sketch Platform Productions’ trilogy of three very different but interconnected new works is one of the notable features of this Fringe. Viewable in whatever order you want, the Rage plays offer a rare sense of scope, existing in a […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews …The Last Minute Slam (B+) This is a show that solves racism. OK, maybe not, but they logically conclude that they have by the end. That’s what I love about this show: their skewed take on logic brings attention to powerful issues while eliminating the […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Featherweight (A) Tom McGee has been delighting audiences for a while now as the man behind the Shakey Shake puppet theatre adaptations of Shakespeare for kids. As writer and director of Featherweight he’s trying his hand at more adult, live action fare, but fortunately […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Robert. (A-) Produced by Lark & Whimsy Collective, playwright Briana Brown’s tragicomedy about family, identity, and loss depicts the full range of human experience. Janelle Hanna and Chris Baker play not quite estranged siblings, Kat and James, who reunite in a hospice while […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Climb (A-) Duane Forrest’s “live album” is like a musical memoir that uses shadow screens, recorded voices, and dance to embody the memories that inform each song Forrest performs. Site-specifically presented at St. Stephen’s Community House for what appears to be mostly practical reasons […]
What a remarkably raw and human piece of theatre. The libretto of this brutally honest look at working-class life is crafted with such eloquence that it is a joy to listen to. Coupled with such a powerful performance from its cast, this play challenges your preconceptions and presents the complexities of an apparently simple life […]
A theme you will find in my reviews of Luminato shows is that I tend to feel like the festival is not really for me. I have fairly conventional theatre taste and fairly passive political beliefs (at least among the liberal consensus of my community) so Luminato’s artsy, brazen, avant-garde vibe is really just not […]
It is remarkable that the principal themes of Machinal, an expressionist 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell, should resonate so acutely with the dominant questions of the modern world. Ideas of a woman’s role in an industrial and patriarchal society, whether one can be trapped by society and whether there is any ‘way out’ are in many […]