REVIEW: FAUSTUS IN AFRICA!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn ambitious exploration of the psychological confusion, chaos, and bile that take root in colonialism’s heart of darkness.
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REVIEW: Figures In Extinction
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Every once in a while, a work of art humbly steps onstage, regards its audience with all the grief in the world, and then utterly stretches what anyone thought theatre could be or do."
REVIEW: NOWHERE
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn- and offstage collapse into each other for an hour and a half of theatre-(un)making at its finest.
REVIEW: EMBRO WALKING TOUR
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was a reprieve of sorts to be able to experience the city so specifically and quietly from the perspectives of each of the poems. In the context of a festival where you can watch pretty much…
REVIEW: As You Like It: A Radical Retelling
Reading Time: 2 minutessure to excite
REVIEW: Works And Days
Reading Time: 3 minutesWorks and Days gives us an epic taste of what we might have to gain as our bond to the earth strengthens. It might not be what we imagined, but it is definitely what we want. There…
REVIEW: BECAUSE YOU NEVER ASKED
Reading Time: 2 minutesDance company We All Fall Down’s latest piece Because You Never Asked powerfully preserves a Holocaust survivor’s memories and relationship with her grandson through movement. Capturing the stories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors is a challenge…
REVIEW: TOMATOES TRIED TO KILL ME BUT BANJOS SAVED MY LIFE
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you need a straightforward, no-frills story to believe that it’s never too late to try anything new in life, watch this show
REVIEW: CECILIA GENTILI’S RED INK
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Elliot Page and PAGEBOY Productions, Sara Ramirez, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Queer Arts Coalition and Nic Cory, Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink is an autobiographical show that - through an artful dose of comedy - follows Gentili through an abusive childhood in 1970s Argentina all the way to her move to New York, where she transitioned and became a sex worker.
REVIEW: VEGAN FOOD FESTIVAL: The Tuskers and Soft Serve Cartel
Reading Time: 2 minutesUntil the end of the Fringe, Venue 13 will be hosting a rotating mix of food vendors, each of them offering a fully vegan menu. Their commitment to vegan cooking is a comestible and ingeniously creative compliment to their focus on storytelling about the climate crisis.