The 22nd Toronto Fringe Festival starts next week; with more than 150 theatre companies and 800 performers involved, it's Toronto's largest theatre festival. It's got something for everyone, and some things not for everyone.
It's not just the old bugaboos, either, like "mature content," "violence," or "language" (and one supposes this last one should be inferred to mean the bad, coarse, or vulgar sense of the word, not the French or German). Consider some of the other audience advisory warnings that accompany the synopses of the various productions:
Warning: Awkward Situations, Adult References To The ElderlyWarning: GunshotsWarning: Smoking Herbal CigarettesWarning: AwesomeWarning: Fog MachineWarning: TrumpetWarning: Hedonism, Tomfoolery, Indulgently Floral LanguageWarning: Language, Nudity, Strobe Lighting, Fog Machine, Simulated Drug and Alcohol UseWarning: Content, Language, Dancing VaginaWarning: Content, Nudity, Audience Participation, Lap Dancing, And More!
Mama always worried that I'd end up in the big city, reveling in hedonism, tomfoolery and indulgently floral language - especially in the making of awkward references to grandma and grandpa. (Somehow, I doubt she'd have been able to bring herself to utter the phrase, "dancing vagina.") And now look at me: fire up the fog machine!
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