Fringe Festival Guide: Mystery and Crime
iPhoto caption: Denise Solleza, one of the artists in this year's Fringe Festival. Photo by Tanja Tiziana
TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL SHOWS
MYSTERY AND CRIME
6 QUICK DICK TRICKS: A DIRK DARROW INVESTIGATION, by Tim Motley
A mind-blowing mentalist collides with thrilling danger in this film-noir murder mystery adventure. With unbelievable magic tricks and rapid-fire comedy, this hilarious psychic detective with the winning smile puts on a killer show… literally.
GREY, by Chantal Forde, Three Five Productions
Twelve years ago Richard Buttle killed Jayden Alexander. Today is the day of his parole hearing. Jumping through time, the circumstances that lead to the crime begin to unravel. Who is really to blame?
HIGH PARK NOIR, by Michael Bennett Leroux & Holly Greene, Simply Twisted Productions
Condo development in High Park will leave its furry inhabitants homeless. If he can get sober, raccoon Detective Dick will expose corruption and save High Park. Will Dick’s dark past and Officer Pussy’s tail get in his way?
MURDER IN THE COTTONWOODS, by Colin Sharpe, CuJoLemieux
Pearl Brown wants to turn herself in for murder, but nobody wants to hear the confession. Her old-fashioned hometown of Happerton is more concerned with maintaining illusions of innocence than confronting the dark murder of their prom queen, Tammy Somers.
MUTTS OR: 101 LIBATIONS, by Joey Monahan, Gracie May Theatre Company
Two alcoholics who fund their addiction by stealing dogs and returning them for reward money accidentally take a blind man’s service dog.
ODD ONE OUT, by Maureen Gualtieri, Human Wick Effect
1950. A love triangle. A secret attraction. A college student disappears in the woods. Ten years later, her rival lovers reunite in an attempt to solve the otherworldly mystery: what really happened to Clementine Yates?
THE RESURRECTIONISTS, by Ross Hammond, House of Rebels Theatre
Set in the rural Ontario community of King Township in the nineteenth century, two doctors find themselves caught up in a new and lucrative business opportunity—grave robbing. Their first night on the job, unwelcome surprises and unexpected visitors send them wildly off course.
THREE DATES AND A FLOODED BASEMENT, by Timothy Ng, Void Room Theatrics
The city is under the mercy of an unidentified lunatic who has claimed countless lives. Simon, a newcomer, is desperately searching for a love connection. But after inviting one of his dates home, he find himself in a bit of a predicament after his date asks to explore his supposedly flooded basement—something that must be avoided at all cost.
YOU ARE PERFECT, by Cyndy A. Marion, White Horse Theatre Company
Inspired by the story of Susan Atkins, a real-life member of the Manson family, You Are Perfect enters the world of Manson’s ardent disciple, who was implicated in at least eight coldblooded killings, including the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders.
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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