operaramblings

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What the Festival

Posted on September 28, 2026 by operaramblings

What the Festival is Toronto’s annual weekend of clowns, drag and puppets so it’s a bit niche. This year it took place at the relatively new arts hub Youngplace (that disused school at Shaw and Argyle) which is now surprisingly spiffy. I saw two of the four shows offered; Drag Me to the Opera, and Two.2.Mango’s Hansal and Greteel.

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It takes two to mango

Posted on September 24, 2025 by operaramblings

Colonial Circus; currently playing at Aki Studio, is a hilarious and intermittently disturbing sideways look at colonialism. It’s a clown show performed by Two2Mango; Shreya Parashar and Sachin Sharma. So, we have two people of Indian origin in slightly bizarre white-face playing both “native” characters; a priest and his disciple, and representatives of the Raj; a British lady and her manservant.

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