Reviews

  • Following up last year’s hour long standup show _It's Sara Hennessey Time_, comic Sara Hennessey returns with a more theatrical offering with character pieces, prop comedy, a miniature cutout town, and video interludes.

    Sarah Hennessey from Sarah Hennessey Town.
  • Actor and musical performer Jeff Jones bares his soul in this sometimes funny, often abstract, almost schizophrenic monologue about loss, regret, and the beauty of collective thought.

    Jeff Jones
  • After a mysterious fire burns down St. Agatha’s church, its new pastor and hard-core parishioners attempt to raise 4 million dollars of reconstruction money by throwing an old fashioned church-basement Bingo evening.

    Bingo!
  • Episode One? These damn kids from Edmonton are bound to disappoint many a Fringer with a polished, engaging, skillfully acted, and sharply written show that only unveils the first third of their epic World War 2 trilogy.

    Spiral Dive: part one of three...
  • It’s a wonderful experience to walk out of a theatre with a big smile plastered across your face. It doesn’t happen often enough, but the rarity makes you really appreciate the gems that achieve it, and *Just East of Broadway* is one such example.

    This way to just east of Broadway
  • Toronto alt-comedian Winston Spear’s performance piece features him and two associates fooling around (carefully choreographed fooling that is) with flashing toys and gadgets of every ilk to the constant accompaniment of techno beats.

    Boys with Toys
  • People in their mid-twenties have been experiencing existential dilemmas since time immemorial, but the recent coining of the term ‘Quarterlife Crisis’ has suddenly brought a new surge of theatrical material on the subject. *QuarterLife: The Musical* is one of several such offerings at this year’s Fringe, cataloging the woes and quandaries of five twentysomething New Yorkers trying to sort out their lives.

    Plank Magazine (well, Andrew at any rate) is astonished to learn that there is something called quarter-life crisis
  • In the classic Greek play *Lysistrata*, the heroine convinces the women of the ancient Greek isles to conduct a sex strike against their husbands and lovers in order to bring a halt to the constant and debilitating wars plaguing the Mediterranean region. With this production, it is re-imagined by Eyewitness Theatre Company from the UK as a kind of bawdy pantomime in verse with double entendres and penis jokes aplenty.

    Not striking women but actually trojan women: make life easier for Plank editors have photos!
  • This one woman show (or one man show depending on whether you are speaking about performer Rachelle Elie or her alter-ego Joe) is a indistinct, aimless hour framed around the premise of an open call audition for a production of Macbeth.

    Rachelle Elie is Joe
  • Between the title *My Mother's Lesbian Jewish-Wiccan Wedding*, and the Fringe’s history of generating contrived and off-the-wall musicals, you would never suspect that this show is based on a real life story.

    It's hard to find photos of Jewish Wiccan weddings

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