It’s got scares …well not real scares.
It’s got sadness …well not real sadness.
It’s got suffering. …well not real suffering.
But most of all, it’s got death. …well, not real death.
Fiction and reality collide in a play with no director about a director making a movie in which the actor dies. …Not in the movie, …not in real life, … in the play.
When will he die? In the end.
Where will he die? On the big screen.
How will he die? Scared, sad, and suffering.
Will he come back? No.
Will he be remembered? No.
Will he have made a difference? No.
High reference. Lowbrow. Enjoy a perfect blend of stupid, funny and smart.
What if Lou Gehrig got heckled? What was Franz Kafka’s Senior Prom like? What becomes of a man who hears the same jokes at work everyday for 40 years? Jape Presents: The Grapes of Khan answers these questions – questions you’ve probably never asked – using the highest art form known to man: sketch comedy.
Their friend’s last wish, was for them to share his goldfish…
Toronto, Ontario…Fresh from working with two-time Academy Award® Nominee Woody Harrelson in the hit comedy Bullet for Adolf at Hart House Theatre, Vanessa Smytheis thrilled to premiere her second original play BEAST at the Toronto Fringe Festival opening on Friday, July 8 at 5:30 pmat the Factory Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street, Toronto (full show schedule below). The Fringe runs July 6 -17, 2011.
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THE COMEDIC FRINGES OF WORLD WAR I
Set in World War I France, In The Trenches is an original, fast paced, dark comedy written by Peter Sawyer, an ex-soldier turned actor/comedian, and David Rutherford, an abstract oil painter turned graduate of the London School of Economics. In the Trenches shines the spotlight on a group of eight young (and not so young) Canadians in their “home away from home” a trench at the front, where the smell of fear is overwhelmed by the smell of each other. As they fight the enemy and the daily grind of life in the trenches, they soon learn that bullets and shells are the least of their problems. In eight hilariously moving vignettes, In the Trenches takes the audience on an intimate, sharply funny journey, as our Canadian “heroes” battle their enemy, around and within.
Performing to a full house at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Gavin Crawford left the crowd cheering by the final act. With his hysterical original one-man show, Gavin’s Ménage blends various characters together ranging from celebrities to politicians to a Pride “virgin.”
