Fringe Festival Guide: Dystopian Worlds
iPhoto caption: Denise Solleza, one of the artists in this year's Fringe Festival. Photo by Tanja Tiziana
TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL SHOWS
Dystopian Worlds
13 WAYS THE WORLD ENDS, by Flash Dazzle Productions
Pestilence. Famine. War. And… Cthulhu? Join comedy sketch troupe Good Morning Apocalypse as they present thirteen different ways Earth meets its end.
BUGGER THE BUTTERFLY! (OR MY SCI-FI, HOLLYWOOD ADVENTURE), by T. Berto, Pencil-Neck Theatre
Imagine a future where time travel has become mundane, where history is only a plaything for a populace oversaturated with media and celebrity. Celebrity-filled, boozy, irreverent, and just a little bit gay, Bugger the Butterfly! answers Cher’s question for the ages: what would you do “if you could turn back time”?
EARTH TOURIST, by Chandelier Factory Productions
Sparklemuffin the space unicorn from another dimension has one final day to finish an application that grants her freedom from an endless cycle of human rebirth. Relentlessly pestered by her arch nemesis and only friend, linear time, she scrambles to make sense of life on planet earth and her place in it.
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW, by Aaron Jensen, Musicals Canada
The history of the universe, a poignant family drama, the swashbuckling adventures of an imaginative young girl, the end of the world, and a surly cow: no stone is left unturned in this delightfully dark and whimsical new musical.
INTERSTELLAR ELDER, Ingrid Hansen, SNAFU
Meet Kitt, lone astronaut, age nintey-six, protecting the last of humankind. Imagine Ridley Scott’s Aliens meets Golden Girls.
KARA SEVDA, by Lisa VillaMil, Now What Theatre
Celia and Rhys are waiting for the train. The last train that will ever run from Paris to Rome. But so are thousands of others, and the lottery has yet to begin.
PLAGUE: A SIC LOVE STORY, by Matthew Heiti, Ou est Billy Ou Ou
A mysterious sickness has cocooned the city in paranoia and suspicion. A husband and wife seal themselves into their squalid tenement flat to attend the sickbed of their baby. While the illness gnaws at the seams, Bernard and Remy dig toward the truth at the heart of their life.
RECALL, by Eliza Clark, Seven Siblings Theatre
Lucy makes people uncomfortable. There’s something about her eyes. There’s something about the way her mother’s boyfriends keep disappearing. And there’s something about the government agents on her trail.
WELCOME TO THE BUNKER!, by Clare Blackwood and Ryan F. Hughes, Portius Productions
Zombie apocalypse got you down? Grab your prep kit and your fellow survivors and join us underground to start your new life! Say hello to life in the bunker, where we will guide you through adjusting to your new surroundings.
The Toronto Fringe Festival is on from July 5 to July 16 at locations around the city.
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A Perfect Pronunciation of Pho (in which you probably won’t actually learn how to pronounce pho)
Can we contend that the saying of "foh" facilitates the task of communicating the noodle soup to you just fine, which is precisely what a word is supposed to do?
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup #2
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up.
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide,...
Embedded Criticism: Inside Toronto Fringe with the New Young Reviewers, Part One
Embedded criticism offers reviewers an insider view of a production, as they embed in the rehearsal process of a show as well as review it.
iPhoto caption: Fringe Hub 2014. Photo by Brian Batista Bettencourt.
Fringe: Memories of a Long-Time Volunteer
What follows are my memories, my perspectives, and my recollections of my Fringe experiences, and thus may contain but are not limited to accurate depictions.
I had just been complaining that I never have enough time to do shrooms.
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