A number of classics are usually part of Fringe fare this summer you’ll find plays by C.S. Lewis, Harold Pinter, Ionesco, Lorca and Neil LaBute.
But sometimes the most engrossing revivals involve variations on the original. In a version of Sophocles’ Antigone, the battle between the individual and the state brings in the G20 and the Occupy movement (from July 4 at the Randolph). The Other Three Sisters relocates Chekhov’s tale of Russian sibs to suburban Etobicoke (from July 5 at St. Vladimir’s).
The Canary Wallpaper reinterprets Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s eerie 1892 feminist tale The Yellow Wallpaper, using dance and music instead of text (from July 6 at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace), while Absolute Alice updates Lewis Carroll’s story to today’s Toronto (from July 7 at Factory Mainspace).