From press release:

Good Women Dance Collective embarks on cross-Canadian Fringe adventure

Bringing contemporary dance to three cities in six weeks Good Women Dance Collective, voted Edmonton’s Best Dance Company by Vue Weekly, embarks on their first-ever cross-Canadian Fringe Festival tour, bringing critically acclaimed contemporary dance to three cities in six weeks.

Showcasing two original works exploring different states of fracture, Good Women will debut Shatterstate, an investigation of how déjà vu challenges our state of being, and POD, a dynamic journey of growth, separation and isolation.

Best known for producing boundary pushing work that is accessible to all audiences, Good Women Dance Collective is a creation-based company with an artistic focus on creating and producing innovative new works with integrity and conviction.

“Good Women are excited to bring our choreography and performance to new audiences across Canada,” said collective artist Ainsley Hillyard. “Good Women Collective Artist Kate Stashko is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. It is an incredible honour for our collective to return with Kate to Toronto, and to share our work with new audiences.”

Good Women Dance Collective present: Fracture

Venue #4 Randolph Theatre

Friday July 5, 3:30pm

Saturday July 6, 3:30pm

Sunday July 7, 7:00pm

Wednesday 10, 5:45pm

Thursday July 11, 3:30pm

Friday July 12, 11:00pm

Sunday July 14 1:45pm

www.goodwomen.ca

featuring Ainsley Hillyard, Alison Kause, Alida Nyquist-Schultz and Kate Stashko.

Good Women Dance Collective is passionate about professional contemporary dance, and dedicates part of its season to offering performance, education and professional development opportunities to artists working in Edmonton.

From press release:

Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Productions presents:

Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself (The Play) &

Eat Your Heart Out with Morro and Jasp (The Book)

By Heather Marie Annis, Byron Laviolette & Amy Lee

“Two of the most original clowns on the Canadian scene” – Toronto Star 

Local clown sisters Morro and Jasp are thrilled to announce that their adventures into cooking will take over in two exciting and different ways this year: a play and a book.

First, their Dora‐Award winning cooking show Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself will run as a part of the 2013 Fringe Festival, with shows July 3‐14 at 918 Bathurst Street. Set in a fully functional kitchen and featuring all the munchies, mess and mayhem of the original production, this show can only seat 50 people per performance.

Second, U.N.I.T. Productions is teaming up with Tightrope Books to make a cookbook like no other. In our brand new book, Eat Your Heart Out with Morro and Jasp, we will take you on a journey through our favourite recipes, our most intimate thoughts and our deepest desires. A multifaceted and interactive book that involves recipes, stories, photographs and more, Eat Your Heart Out is a comedic treasure map to all kinds of delicious.

Featuring easy‐to‐make recipes and fun ways to challenge your culinary craftsmanship, Eat Your Heart Out is an entertaining guide that will make you learn to love playing with your food again. Coming this fall!

Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself

918 Bathurst Street

July 3 & 8‐14 8:00 pm

July 7 & 12‐14 4:00 pm

General Admission ‐ $10 Box Office: 416.966.1062 www.fringetoronto.com

From press release:

I’M JUST NOT MYSELF TODAY: THEATRE MISCHIEF TAKES A CINEMATIC
ADVENTURE INTO AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

Toronto, ON – As part of the 25th Toronto Fringe Festival, Theatre Mischief presents Polly Polly, by Jessica Moss, July 4 – 13, 2013, at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. Polly is an ordinary girl with a call–centre job and a sense that there could be more. One day, a voice in her head begins narrating her thoughts and actions: as if she was worthy of an audience. Then, on a routine call, she phones someone with a beautiful alto voice and an uncanny knowledge of Polly’s own soul. ‘I’m Polly Eschfield’, the voice says, ‘I’m you. Find me’. Polly is thrown on a journey of self-discovery and realization as she is tormented with questions of who she really is.

What is a self, where do you find one, and who does the finding? What does it mean to tellyour own story, when the voice that tells it isn’t necessarily your own? What is that voice in our heads that is more poetic than we are, that’s scripting the movie version of our lives? Polly Polly is a theatrical romp into a screwball movie, a mystery with only one suspect, one victim, and one performer, and a farce of an identity crisis, all presented live in Theatr-OScope Vision.

Writer/performer Jessica Moss (Modern Love at Next Stage Festival, Was Spring at Tarragon Theatre, Tout Comme Elle with Necessary Angel, TICK, and Swoon! with Toronto Fringe) says of the play:

I’m interested in stretching, or, perhaps more accurately, shattering the perceived limits of one-person shows. The ideas of finding yourself, being unsure about your identity, and a voice in your head that is somehow different than your own voice feel like natural things to explore in this medium. I love theatre that is fast, funny, and true, and that’s what I’m searching for as I fall down this particular rabbit hole. Give yourself a good talking to and come down to Theatre Passe Muraille for Polly Polly. Whether you feel like yourself or are still looking for the real you, we all need a little escape. Polly Polly, written and performed by Jessica Moss. Presented by Theatre Mischief.

SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, July 4 – 7:45 pm Tuesday, July 9 – 10:15 pm
Friday, July 5 – 1:15 pm Thursday, July 11 – 6:15 pm
Sunday, July 7 – 9:45 pm Friday, July 12 – 5:15 pm
Monday, July 8 – 4:00 pm Saturday, July 13 – 8:00 pm
At Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace, Fringe Venue 11
16 Ryerson Avenue (North of Queen Street, East of Bathurst)

TICKETS: $10 At the door, available at the venue starting one hour prior to showtime. $11 in advance.
Available online at fringetoronto.com, by phone at 416 966 1062, ext 1, and in person during the Festival Box Office in the Parking lot behind Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor St. W).

From press release:

Tangled Web Theatre makes their Toronto FringeKids! debut with Handle With Care. This show provides a positive take on environmental education and uses humour, play and puppets to create a fun theatre experience for family audiences aged 4 and up. Opens July 4^th at the Palmerston Theatre.

The seed for Handle With Care was planted when Bonnie Thomson and Tyler Seguin were leading a Grade 3 puppetry workshop. They noticed that the students had created some pretty grim environmentally-themed posters. Tangled Web Theatre started talking about whether it was possible to teach a more positive view of how we can interact with our environment, and include humour and a sense of playfulness, as well as cautionary messages. Handle With Care incorporates a wide variety of puppetry styles, including tabletop, rod, shadow, and object manipulation and uses many different materials, including recycled and found objects.

Tangled Web Theatre is an artistic collective whose work emerges from the collision of conventional theatre with unconventional forms such as physical theatre and puppetry. Tangled Web members participated in the inaugural Puppetmongers’ Puppetry eXploratory Laboratory, and have also worked with Old Trout Puppet Workshop. Parts of their previous work, Jurkka Jarvinen’s Troll Stories have been presented at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Crapshoot, The Fresh Ideas in Puppetry Festival, National Theatre of the World’s Carnegie Hall Show and Theatre Caravel’s Seachange. For more information please visit www.tangledwebtheatre.com.

Tangled Web Theatre
in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
Handle With Care
written by Bonnie Thomson
featuring Helen Juvonen, Tyler Seguin and Bonnie Thomson

Venue: Palmerston Theatre
560 Palmerston Ave.

Performances:

Thursday, July 4 – 5:45pm

Friday, July 5 – 7:45pm

Saturday, July 6 – 2:30pm

Monday, July 8 – 1:15pm

Wednesday, July 10 – 6:00pm

Thursday, July 11 – 3:45pm

Saturday, July 13 – 1:00pm

Sunday, July 14 – 6:45pm

Tickets: $10;  $5 for kids under 12
Tickets can be purchased by phone 416-966-1062, online at www.fringetoronto.com
50% of tickets are available in advance. Advance tickets go on sale June 15^th
At-the-door tickets available at Palmerston Theatre 1-hr prior to show – cash only.

Photo credit: Robin Munro