Produced and presented by Libby Brodie Productions, Permanence is an hour long emotional tornado. And I mean that in a good way. Written by Cyd Casados, the play depicts the relationship of Steve (Ludovic Hughes) and Rebecca (Samantha Michelle) – an English painter and an American doctor, respectively. Their affair starts of heatedly in Steve’s […]

Eric Peterson is back once again performing Billy Bishop – a Canadian war hero from the First World War. Forty years since its creation, this production celebrates not just Peterson and Maclachlan Gray’s creation, but brings Soulpepper through Canada’s own 150th birthday. The set stands out immediately as interesting and effective: around the stage set […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews About Time (A-) The Templeton Philharmonic always deliver creative, hilarious, insightful work. This excellent sketch show that glimpses moments in time from the very start to the hypothetical future is no exception. Highlights include an Oracle of Delphi who speaks exclusively in cliché and […]

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 Diddlin’ Bibbles (A-) The true patron’s pick of the festival, every single person I talked to seemed to recommend this faux-concert by a pair of earnest American dumdums touring their double act of funny songs and cute couple banter to the “very […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews   The Seat Next to the King (A) Brilliantly acted by festival breakout Kwaku Okyere and Conor Ling (whom I couldn’t be happier to see back in Toronto after years in the States), the Fringe’s New Play Contest winner is, like many a New […]

Be sure to check out our Full List of Fringe Reviews Snap! (A-) I don’t know what I expected from Snap! but it wasn’t to be so charmed by this quirky site-specific show about four ordinary people attending a mandatory anger management programme. Led by Wanda, a facilitator leading her first session, the reluctant attendees […]

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 […]