Health update: coffee and Hydralyte have become the critical components of my poorly scheduled Fringe lifestyle.

In case you missed it, here’s my first dispatch:
https://www.reddit.com/r/torontotheatre/comments/1umisw1/fringe_first_dispatch/

And here’s a second round of reviews and recommendations in case anyone is still filling gaps in their second-week marathon!

RECOMMENDED

1. GRATITUDE
My top recommendation in this batch. Oren Safdie’s locker-room drama is morally rancid and tightly written. Certainly not the easiest sit, but it is treacherous in the most compelling way.
https://ourtheatrevoice.com/toronto-fringe-2026-dispatch-2-the-weekend/

2. OOGA CHAKA
A rambunctious Neolithic comedy about the invention of theatre. Think Flintstones energy, theatrical in-jokes, and much, much silliness.
https://ourtheatrevoice.com/toronto-fringe-2026-dispatch-2-the-weekend/

ENJOYED

GOD SAVE THE SODOMITES
An inventive celestial tribunal in which the audience’s sins become part of the dramaturgy. The show has wit and improvisational quickness.
https://ourtheatrevoice.com/toronto-fringe-2026-dispatch-2-the-weekend/

ASSEMBLY SÜGGESTED
A delicate queer almost-love story built around the impossible task of assembling furniture. Soft-hearted and quietly aching.
https://ourtheatrevoice.com/toronto-fringe-2026-dispatch-2-the-weekend/

OTHER SHOWS I’VE SEEN

outside these walls, everyone is sleeping
An experimental physical piece about depression as a ritual of slowness. It has spellbinding images, though its repetitiveness eventually weighs it down.
https://ourtheatrevoice.com/toronto-fringe-2026-dispatch-2-the-weekend/

Meat Market
A campy (at times banal) dive into queer hook-up culture. Review coming soon on NEXT.

Danse Macabre
A historically ambitious political exploration of slavery from Africa to South America.

Who? hú 狐
A sobering reflection on human responsibility toward nature in the age of AI.