Author: Michael Wheeler
2009 Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick’s are:
St. Vladimir’s Theatre
Red Bastard
July 12, 6:00pm
Robert Gill Theatre
Hipcheck, The Musical
July 12, 9:15pm
Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace
Head First
July 12, 6:45pm
Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace
Sara Hennesy Town
July 12, 7:30pm
Factory Theatre Mainspace
Like Father, Like Son. Sorry.
July 12, 9:15pm
Factory Studio Theatre
Baggage
July 12, 6:45pm
Tarragon Mainspace
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
July 12, 9:15pm
Tarragon Extraspace
Morro & Jasp Do Puberty
July 12, 6:45pm
Royal St. George’s Auditorium
Killing Kevin Spacey
July 12, 9:15pm
George Ignatieff Theatre
Just East of Broadway
July 12, 6:15pm
Helen Gardiner Theatre
2-Man No-Show
July 12, 9:15pm
YEA: 32
NEA: 38
Were you at this performance? Let us know your thoughts and feedback. Hopefully this is the first stage of development for this project and we’d like to know what you thought.
Uncertain what this is all about?
Come check out Tim Buck 2 at the Toronto Fringe Festival to learn more.
Yves Bélanger (currently starring in Moins 2 at the Théâtre du Bic) almost ripped the camera out of my hands when I ran into him in. As I ran off I heard him yell, “câlisse de tabarnac !!! ” Geez, I thought Montrealers were supposed to be nice….
YEA: 11
NEA: 50
Were you at this performance? Let us know your thoughts and feedback. Hopefully this is the first stage of development for this project and we’d like to know what you thought.
Uncertain what this is all about?
Come check out Tim Buck 2 at the Toronto Fringe Festival to learn more.
YEA: 16
NEA: 47
Were you at this performance? Let us know your thoughts and feedback. Hopefully this is the first stage of development for this project and we’d like to know what you thought.
Uncertain what this is all about?
Come check out Tim Buck 2 at the Toronto Fringe Festival to learn more.
The EYE website already has reviews pouring in.
Looking for reviews to decide what’s hot and what’s not at this year’s fringe?
Looking to see if anyone, anywhere, has written about a show you’re involved in?
Looking to kill hours of time refreshing your browser?
Click the links below to get to all the Fringe reviews out there:
Eye Weekly Fringe
The obvious choice, this is the one publication that guarantees they will review every fringe show. Also has a handy sorting system that lets you see what has been reviewed lately, well, or has the most comments. The comments section also has an “agree” or “disagree” function for the first time this year. This could end up being a key community tool to call bullshit on people involved with the show posing as uninvested parties with impartial feedback.
Now Magazine Fringe
The Now review site looks a lot like last year, but has a few more conveniences for the non-informed fringe-goer . Someone has taken the time to condense the plot of each show to one sentence, there is a calendar to visualize the day that each show is playing, and the venue map is right there as well. Critically, there seems to be consensus that getting 4 or 5 Ns from Now is alot harder than EYE so becoming a Critic Pick in this section is usually great for a show’s box office.
Torontoist Fringe
As a member of the online community we’re psyched about this one as Torontoist has 3, count them 3, reviewers hitting the Fringe this year. Because they’re not beholden to review everything, or the constraints of the printing press, it looks like these could end up becoming the longest and most detailed reviews of the Fringe. Also, possibly most importantly: no star system. Read the review if you want to know if it’s good lazybones.
Toronto Star Fringe
Getting your Fringe show reviewed by the Star seems pretty tough to do, but they always do review a few, and this year they do have a specifically dedicated page online. They use a strange system that we’ve only seen used for Fringe or Summerworks where shows are rated, “not recommended”, “recommended”, or “highly recommended”. Anyways, it has the highest circulation of any newspaper in the country so I guess they can do whatever they want really.
Toronto Sun Fringe
Uh oh, hard times for The Sun and theatre coverage. First they announce that although they don’t have a specific plan to review shows readers can write their own reviews which will be posted here:
http://www.torontosun.com/fringe/
As of publication this page was blank. Just completely white. No text. Nothing.
Globe and Mail Fringe
The stiff upper lip of the Globe editorial board likely prevents any print coverage of fringe shows here. Fortunately, Globe critic Kelly Nestrucks has a blog, Nestruck on Theatre, where he did cover some of the action last year. This makes a lot of sense as Kelly is an online Fringe review pioneer. (Anyone remember Alison Broverman and Kelly Nestruck as the National Post’s “Theatre Eaters” in 2006?) It’s kind of unfair to list this as we have no idea what will happen in this space for sure.
Did we miss a place for Fringe reviews? Leave a note in the comments and we will update the post.
YEA: 9
NEA: 33
Were you at this performance? Let us know your thoughts and feedback. Hopefully this is the first stage of development for this project and we’d like to know what you thought.
Uncertain what this is all about?
Come check out Tim Buck 2 at the Toronto Fringe Festival to learn more.
INDEPENDENT THEATRE PRODUCTION DIVISION
Outstanding New Play or New Musical
Anton Piatigorsky Eternal Hydra
Outstanding Production
Eternal Hydra Crow’s Theatre
Outstanding Direction
Chris Abraham Eternal Hydra
Outstanding Performance by a Male
David Ferry Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Outstanding Performance by a Female
Maja Ardal You Fancy Yourself
Outstanding Set Design
Gillian Gallow Appetite
Outstanding Costume Design
Gillian Gallow Appetite
Outstanding Lighting Design
John Thompson Eternal Hydra
Outstanding Sound Design/Composition
Waylen Miki An Inconvenient Musical
Text:
“Seen in profile, the human brain looks something like a boxing glove. The temporal lobes are where the thumbs would be…”
Image:
Sound:
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Photo by Kristy Kennedy
BRENDAN GALL is one of three writers whose work comprises The Room’s inaugural production, “RED MACHINE: PART ONE,” running July 1st to 12th, 7 pm nightly at The Lower Ossington Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. (to find out more, click here)
To learn more about Praxis Theatre’s Variations on Theatre, click here.
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