From press release
Soulo Theatre presents
Memento Mori
by Tracey Erin Smith
a BYOV performance at The Toronto Fringe Festival
from June 30th to July 12th
Written and Performed by Tracey Erin Smith (two-time winner of both NYC’s Frigid Festival’s Audience Choice Award and Best of Toronto Fringe.)
Directed by Anita La Selva (Best Director – My Theatre Choice Awards)
Music by Payadora Tango Ensemble Continue reading Memento Mori – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
From press release
When an ambitious project to present the greatest battles in world history as a spectacular musical falls apart, one man is left to pick up the pieces and soldier on. Mark Shyzer returns to the Toronto Fringe with a hilarious one‐man show‐within‐a‐ show: one man left to play every part and every instrument, simultaneously acting out world and personal history. Continue reading Great Battles in History – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
From press release
little red theatre presents
BUSYNESS
AT THE TORONTO FRINGE 2014
FRINGE KIDS @
Palmerston Library Theatre
560 Palmerston Ave (Bathurst and Bloor)
In a play without words about a fairy, technology, a businessman and a tree, little red theatre makes miracles with the simplest of tools and using the coolest of sets. In a Charlie Chaplinesque comedy mash up, creatures of nature take on creatures of the city. A funny dance battle ensues with a dragon watching over the end game!
Suitable for Ages 4 – 12 Continue reading BUSYNESS – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
From Press Release
Fringe favourites celebrate their 10th anniversary with two remounts
Following their immense success at the Next Stage Theatre Festival this January with Scheherazade, Nobody’s Business Theatre return to the Fringe stage. Co-artistic producers Morgan Norwich and Johnnie Walker have charmed Fringe audiences for a decade with their bold, weird, and hilarious new plays, and they are thrilled to celebrate their 10 years of collaboration by remounting two of their biggest hits, Amusement and Redheaded Stepchild, at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
In Amusement, Norwich and Walker play Rose and Sebastian, two friends seeking their fortune at a certain Orlando amusement park. They soon become embroiled in a series of conspiracies, hijinks, and musical numbers, thanks to the interference of a quirky cast of characters including a mean teen queen, nonagenarian costume mistress, and talking smell machine. Discover a whole new world of secrets at the happiest place on earth, in this darkly comic fairy tale for grownups. Amusement is directed byTom Arthur Davis, whose Fringe credits include Elizabeth and Darcy (2013, Outstanding Direction – NOW Magazine) andMahmoud (2012, Best of Fringe & Patron’s Pick). Amusement premiered last summer at the Edmonton Fringe Festival to sold out houses and glowing reviews.
Praise for Amusement
“★★★★… Resplendent… a breath of fresh Fringe air.” VUE Weekly
“★★★★… Walker and Norwich are an appealing pair, with classic showbiz caper chemistry.” Edmonton Journal
“Devilishly funny… high-speed, hip, and hilarious.” Edmonton Sun
In Redheaded Stepchild, directed by Norwich, playwright and performer Walker shares the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Nicholas, a 12-year-old with redhair whose dad just remarried, making him a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up. Walker plays Nicholas; his ex‐Jehovah’s witness golf-pro step mom, Mary-Anne; and his fabulous alter ego and imaginary friend, Rufus Vermilion. Walker was awarded the Steam Whistle Emerging Artist Award for Redheaded Stepchild when it premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2010. The play has since toured across North America to festivals in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and New York City, playing to sold out houses. This July Redheaded Stepchild travels to Halifax as part of the Queer Acts Festival.
Praise for Redheaded Stepchild
“★★★★★ … Laugh-out-loud funny…Walker is a deft performer with brilliant comedic timing and an excellent writer.” Uptown Magazine
“★★★★1/2… Insightful, funny, uncannily performed… A big, flaming winner.” Edmonton Journal
“★★★★★… An hour-long virtuoso display of storytelling.” The Calgary Herald
A Toronto indie theatre institution, founded in 2004 by Johnnie Walker and Morgan Norwich, Nobody’s Business Theatre is a critically acclaimed company of young artists dedicated to the creation and production of new work that is exciting, accessible to all communities, and completely hilarious.
Nobody’s Business Theatre
In association with the Toronto Fringe Festival
Amusement & Redheaded Stepchild
written by Johnnie Walker
performed by Morgan Norwich and Johnnie Walker
directed by Morgan Norwich (Redheaded Stepchild) and Tom Arthur Davis (Amusement)
July 2-13, 2014
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79 St. George St on the U of T Campus
Performances:
Wednesday July 2, 6:30pm – Amusement
Friday July 4, 8:45pm – Amusement
Saturday July 5, 11:00pm – Amusement
Sunday July 6, 7:15pm – Redheaded Stepchild
Wednesday July 9, 12:00pm – Amusement
Thursday July 10, 4:15pm – Redheaded Stepchild
Friday July 11, 1:45pm – Redheaded Stepchild
Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
Tickets: $10
On sale June 12, 2014
Online: fringetoronto.com.
By Phone: 416-966-1062
In Person: During the Festival Box Office in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor St W).
For more information please visit www.nobodybusiness.ca
From Press Release
Do you remember the Midnight Society, TGIF, and dial-up Internet? What about scrunchies, slap bracelets, and Pogs? If you can relate, you’re one of the millions of young adults who fondly remembers the ’90s. And it might make you feel a bit old.
Taryn Parrish, writer for HelloGiggles.com, is excited to announce the debut of her ’90s nostalgia sketch comedy show, Hey ’90s Kids, You’re Old at the Toronto Fringe Festival (July 2-13 2014).
The twist is, the show isn’t set in the ’90s. “As glorious as they were, we don’t need to go back,” says Parrish, 25. “Instead, we are bringing ’90s pop culture into the present. What are the kids from the Magic School Bus up to? What if you ditched your iPod for your CD player? Where is Waldo, anyways?”
The show is inspired by the recent popularity of ’90s nostalgia, especially online. A simple Internet search reveals hundreds of lists with titles like, “You’re a ’90s kid if…” and “50 Best Moments in a ’90s Kid’s Life.” The comment sections are, of course, full of complaints about “feeling old.”
“We’re not old, obviously,” says Parrish, “but we’re the last generation to have experienced a childhood free of the Internet, cell phones, and social media. We played outside, went to libraries and video rental stores, and used landlines. We feel old because so much has changed in so little time. What would our favourite ’90s characters be like if they had to grow up, like we did?”
Taryn Parrish
In association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
Hey ‘90s Kids, You’re Old
Written & Directed by Taryn Parrish
Starring Samantha Adams, Alan Bee, Brian Jansen, Isabel Kanaan, Sundance Nagrial, and Alexander Steele Zonjic
Stage managed by Thomas Orwen-Goldhar & Alexandrea McGillis
Opens JULY 4-JULY13
St. Vladimir’s Theatre 620 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5S
Performances:
July 4, 9:15PM
July 5, 4:00PM
July 7, 6:30PM
July 9, 11:15PM
July 10, 9:15PM
July 11, 12:30PM
July 13, 1:00PM
Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
Tickets:
Available for purchase June 16th
Purchase online: fringetoronto.com
By Phone: 416-966-1062
In Person: During the Festival Box Office in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor St. W)