Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a very unique kind of intimacy in Philip Ridley’s one-person plays: the kind that pushes its blade right up to theatre’s jugular and cheekily threatens to bleed it dry if you don’t follow it through to the end.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“My body can’t conform, so I resist. And I try to make that resistance as joyful as possible.” – Dan Daw Originally coined by disability rights activist Stella Young, inspiration porn describes narratives – by non-disabled and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there are things worth editing in this uproarious work-in-progress show by Gaulier-graduated clown Tara McCullough, please let it not be the number of things she pulls out of her bra. If there are things worth editing…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTrust me: you could willingly watch paint dry with this giraffe for a long time
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of transcendent musical storytelling that radiates with such honesty, clarity and humility, it is a real let down when it comes to a close
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeyyappan is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to building endless worlds of play onstage and then fully embodying, inhabiting, and filling them to the brim with his bursting creative heart
Reading Time: 2 minutesA piece that celebrates the unique power of theatre: to give complete strangers permission to tuck each other into bed, to joyfully exchange deeply personal fragments of loneliness, and to find those who are more than happy to listen when you are finally ready to talk
Reading Time: 2 minutesYes, we need to pay more attention to the rise of fascism and probably do something about it. No, we do not need another play to spell that out for us anymore. Yes, we need to pay…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a classic Fringe fumble, a concert of Holst's “The Planets” ran overtime, preventing me from seeing Garry Starr perform his newest show Classic Penguins at its first Fringe venue.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn ambitious exploration of the psychological confusion, chaos, and bile that take root in colonialism’s heart of darkness.