It’s Toronto’s favourite month of theatre: Fringe Month! There’s also lots of other awesome stuff happening this month which I’m hoping to be able to catch!
Toronto Fringe Festival
I’ll be seeing approximately 40 shows over the course of the 11 days of Fringe. Keep an eye out on my site for daily updates and reviews about what I’ve seen the day before! There are many amazing works to see and I hope that you’re able to get out and see as many as you can!
Don’t forget to go to one of the Box Offie locations and pick up your Festo Card (get it?) and one of the lovely volunteers will hook it up to your account so that as you purchase tickets, they’ll immediately be available on your card! The website has all the info.
July 5 – 16
Locations across Toronto
The Effect – Coal Mine Theatre
An intimate four-hander, in THE EFFECT two young volunteers – Tristan and Connie – agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology, and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty, and the inevitability of physical attraction.
The COAL MINE production features a distinguished cast including Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Aris Athanasopoulos, Leah Doz, and Jordan Pettle; the production team is populated with Cushman’s acclaimed collaborators, Set, Lighting, and Props Designer Nick Blais, Projection Designer Laura Warren, Costumer Designer Cindy Dzib, and Sound Designer and Composer James Smith.
July 9 – 30
COAL MINE THEATRE, 2076 Danforth Avenue
A View from the Box 