(Already regarded by some as the best title for a Fringe show in years.)
Meet Kimberley White-White. She’s a very nice girl and she likes to run. Watch this Manitoban as she runs right across Canada and straight into Parliament. Then gasp as she and her bad Daddy, and her chutney-loving husband Todd, run from Sussex Drive right to the very top, higher than any Canadian has ever gone before. Priscilla Yakielashek performs a fast-paced satirical farce from Fringe favorite Jem Rolls.
*President White-White’s team might finesse an interview into her tight schedule. But don’t mention Kimmy’s Alaskan Campaign Fiasco. If Alaska isn’t Canada, what’s it doing there?
STAMPED BRINGS A FULL CAST OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS ALL FOLDED UP INTO ONE TINY LITTLE ACTRESS TO FRINGE
“This show is terrific – funny, poignant, original.”
– Alice Eve Cohen; playwright, solo theatre artist, and memoirist. Writer of WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Salon’s Best Books of the Year.
Stamped is a solo show based on a true story about a boy with Autism and his attention-hungry sister. Supported by a cast of crazy characters, all played by Sarah Magni, Stamped is about how others label us and how we define ourselves.
(Grandma died at the potluck, but the meatballs were just delicious!)
A (VERY) dark comedy featuring Peter Spence as THE STORYTELLER
Siblings decide to hold a potluck in order to murder their grandmother, who was asleep in the backseat of the car their parents crashed in. Unfortunately, their pompous half-brother is also attending, and killing Ethyl becomes more difficult than they had expected.
See how Ethyl dies in this dark comedy about storytelling, triviality, and organized dining events.
This week’s cheap theatre offers to take you away for a lot less than a vacation. You can travel back in time, fly through the air, rise from depression, visit ‘cracktown,’ or even stay at the airport, all for under $20.
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of June 18, 2012: ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our Managing Editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out.
Already Covered by MoT
AVENUE Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and works through the transition to adulthood in this musical puppet show. Opens Jun 22 and runs to Jul 22. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.
CLASSY LADY (Sandra Battaglini). Canadian Comedy Award-winner Battaglini performs her new solo show. Opens Jun 14 and runs to Jun 24. $25. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-591-1417, sandrabattaglini.com.
