September is well under way, and work is probably getting a little crazy for all of us. Thinking of rebelling against the system and living off-grid in the forest somewhere? The protagonists of the shows in this week’s Cheap Theatre don’t exactly do that, but they do butt heads with the powers-that-be in their societies, with varying results. And hey – you’re sticking it to the man (a little bit) by paying so little for so much theatre!
An excited crowd of Mirvish subscribers and media gathered this morning at the Royal Alexandra Theatre to witness the reveal of Mirvish Productions’ 2014/2015 Season. With a few known entities, a few special events and a few mystery musicals to be revealed, nobody knew exactly what they were in store for when Elvis Stojko walked out onto the stage to share the full roster of shows Mirvish will be bringing to Toronto over the next year.
TIFF is over, and the weather is getting chilly… But the theatre scene in Toronto is heating up for the coming start of the fall! Here’s a list of the shows playing in Toronto during the week of September 15th, 2014. If they’re highlighted in red, and have two asterisks before them, they come highly recommended by our Managing Editor, Wayne. You never know what you might find!
Two delightfully performed one-act plays, A Man of Two Minds and Lost Refuge took the stage at Toronto’s Tranzac
One act plays can be a good opportunity for playwrights to tell engaging stories on stage without being burdened by the pressure of carrying on with the concept longer than necessary. As such, it was a wise decision on the part of The Bony Fiddle Theatre Group to present Blair Mueller’s two shows, A Man of Two Minds and Lost Refuge, as a double header. Individually, they might have fallen flat – but together, they served as proof of Mueller’s skill as a writer/director, and the theatre group’s versatility as a whole.
What would theatre be without a little tension? This week’s Cheap Theatre is all about different kinds of tension – between family members, between individuals and society, and between the natural and the supernatural. But you don’t have to tense up about the seat price – it’ll be $25 or less to see any of the shows on the list below. So leave any tension to the stage, and go watch some Cheap Theatre!
