Just got back from another night of Fringing here in Toronto. Yesterday we saw a one-man show by Chris Gibbs, who is fan­tastic and very engaging, highly intro­spec­tive and almost dan­ger­ously (to him­self) funny. We actu­ally ended up there thinking we were going to see “An Inconvenient Musical”. Turned out we had mixed up the show times! No regrets though, this Englishman is a fine come­dian and writer. In his show “Gibberish”, Chris takes his obvi­ously nat­ural obser­va­tional qual­i­ties and mashes them up with a good helping of utter irrev­er­ence, all while man­aging to blow a couple of bal­loons on stage.

Tonight we caught “F[_]ck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry“, a one-woman show by Sara Bynoe. Absolutely bril­liant! She takes you on a bright and cheerful journey through the dark and morose and highly self-referential jungle of teenage angst poetry. It’s absolutely, deliri­ously hilar­ious for anyone, espe­cially those of us who were grungers and mis­fits, who were trag­i­cally poetic and poet­i­cally bored, in the ’90′s.

Tomorrow, it’s another day, another play.
Or 2 or 3…