FRINGE REVIEW: The War on Food
I don’t know about you, but whenever I buy groceries I constantly worry about the possibility of a dystopian future where a single company has control over all of our…
Fringe World Review: R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet with Sam Cribb
Receiving a personal invitation to view it is like joining a Skull and Bones sundowner: the logistics and lingo might not make a lot of sense, but you know witnessing…
Fringe World Review: Snake/Bad Adam
If you’re looking for something to really sink your teeth into and to leave you breathless, ‘Snake/Bad Adam’ is worth every moment. And you had better not bring your folks…
Fringe World Review: Sinsuality
‘Sinsuality’ is a dark and dramatic riot of circus, ariels, burlesque, and pole dancing that illustrates the seven deadly sins and will leave you breathless.
Fringe World Review: Tomas Ford’s Craptacular!
This is a juggernaut of a performance. Set against the ramshackle backdrop of packing boxes and askew projector screen, it is relentlessly energising. You get the sense that nothing could…
Fringe World Review: Sleeping Beauty
These two protagonists are “guests” of a sleep clinic, wearing uniformed striped pajamas and consuming questionable drugs. They reflect a sense of innocence and vulnerability in their failures to overcome…
Fringe World Interview: Words with ‘Theatre Bang Bang’
“In our apartment in New York, I had a life-size, ‘Dr Who.’ cardboard cut-out of Captain Jack Harkness,” Pascoe said, smiling, “and he would scare the sh*t out of everyone…
Fringe World Review: 600 Seconds
Like a baby with a pet anaconda, it was an odd mix and the pedestrian was partnered with the comic and entertaining, some definitely sticking more in the mind than…
Fringe World Review: Toby Halligan is The Bad Gay
Considering Halligan is an established comedic writer I was surprised with how sloppy the show was. It wasn’t just the provincial cultural transgressions that left me unmoved; the whole show…
Fringe World Review: The Trepidation of the Tower Traipsing Troglodytes
Creators Katie-Rose Spence and Hannah Pascoe have devised a wordless show about human connection, using memes and YouTube clips, pictures of Jeff Goldblum, cardboard cut-outs, and most importantly, their own…