For Science!
4.25/5 stars Small Matters Productions conducts 21 experiments on the human psyche in ways that are incredibly simple yet brilliant. Jam-packed with audience interaction, Lego…
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Generic Male
4/5 stars Generic Male is shaping up to be a favourite at this year’s Fringe Fest with audiences discussing it long after they have left…
Flourish
4/5 stars With gardens, grasses, mushrooms and mystical creatures, Yours Queerly Arts Collective’s Flourish portrays cottagecore at its finest. The Fringe newcomers explore queerness in…
Midnight
2.75/5 stars Meraki Theatre Productions’ Midnight combines the classic fairy-tale formula with the tunes of Taylor Swift. Featuring a twist ending and a lively cast…
Why Not Murder Mother
3.5/5 stars Why Not Murder Mother begins the moment the theatre doors open, with a character lying comatose on a bed flanked by her oddly…
The Ultimate Actor’s Nightmare
4.5/5 stars Club Soda Improv returns to Fringe Fest with its resoundingly successful formula. Because the show is improvised and is therefore different every day,…
Bodywash, ‘I Held the Shape While I Could’ — 3.5/5 Stars
Shoegaze and dream pop, the perennial buzz genres of the indie world, are by this point a little stale. Breaking through the noise is a…
Nicholas Krgovich, ‘Ducks’ — 4/5 Stars
”For years and years, I guess I was lonely” is the first line on Ducks, and it’s the first of many profound shifts in perspective…
U.S. Girls, ‘Bless This Mess’ — 3/5 Stars
Multi-disciplinary artist and U.S. Girls mastermind Meg Remy never stays in the same place creatively for too long. The Illinois-born, Toronto-based songwriter started the project…
Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French…