[REVIEW] Five reviews of the Toronto Fringe Festival

[rfmcdonald]

This year, I've been reviewing plays for Toronto theatre website Mooney On Theatree. I'm happy to report that all five of the shows I reviewed were quite good, each in their own way.

• OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Darryl is a wise and insightful one-actor show by comedian Darryl Pring explaining his mental illness and how he bounced back from hisw lowest power.


• All Our Yesterdays is an artistically successful, politically necessary, and heart-rending look at the plight of two sisters taken by Boko Haram.


• The Philanderess is a superb 21st century take on Shawe's classic The Philanderer. This is my favourite so far.


• Let's Start A Country! is the most unusual show of the lot, a well-guided freeform exploration, with comedy and video projectors and crowns, of the first hour in the life of a micronation.


• Anatolia Speaks is a quiet and powerful story, an account of one Bosnian refugee's life told to her ESL class.

I hope to be going to more shows through the Festival, and will post my reactions (and links to Mooney reviews) here.