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The name "TJ Dawe" has become ubiquitous at the Fringe. In any given summer, it seems like not only are we bound to see one of his famous one-man shows, but probably when we search through our programs at the end of various other shows we will undoubtedly discover that he has directed them or been in some way involved. This summer is no different. Not only is his new 90 minute one-man show Totem Figures playing, but so are Greg Landucci's Mr. Fox and Keir Cutler's Teaching the Fringe, both of which he directed.

Dishpig is a one-man show directed and co-written by Fringe fav TJ Dawe, but starring someone else entirely: Greg Landucci, who co-wrote the show with Dawe. Following a popular trend in one-man show, Dishpig is all about a dude describing how awful his job is, although in this case it's a single job: the main character Matt is a dishwasher, or "dishpig," in a restaurant. Landucci focuses on Matt/Dishpig, although he also manages to portray the other host of people that work in the restaurant, from asshole waiters, to sexy waitresses to stoner line-cooks. Anyone who has ever worked in the food service industry is advised to check out this show; it would probably be pretty cathartic.

Confession: this particular Torontoist did not understand the meaning of TJ Dawe's latest Fringe show's title at all and was expecting a drama about two Frenchmen named Maxim and Cosmo to unfold inside the George Ignatieff Theatre. Instead, Dawe's one-man talk-fest is a series of monologues on the subject of men and women and the title refers to gender-barometric magazines Maxim and Cosmo.

Jimmy Hogg's one-man show Curriculum Vitae is charming, hilarious and remarkably energetic. He begins the show in a dressing gown and with a cup of coffee and, over the course of an hour, proceeds to get dressed and ready for a job interview, all the while detailing the amusing circumstances of his previous employment with comic aplomb.