Here is the end of the world and no one else sees it.
Vic Harbour interacts with how Canadians face change, strife and the past. While navigating a town plagued by drugs, abuse, and ghosts, Alice Shelly and Jimmy Jones hope to change the town that imprisons them, or escape before they are forgotten like the rest of Vic Harbour.
This is a new work by Toronto playwright, Peter Counter. The play was partially inspired by ghost stories from the playwright’s childhood, and features Counter’s quirky wit and devastatingly honest dialogue. Director Andrew Gaboury fosters a collaborative and adrenalized rehearsal process. For this project the company will take their creation period out of the rehearsal hall and into the harbour.
In the guise of everyone’s favourite Hollywood fugitives, Acclaimed Toronto writers/performers Daniel Krolik and Amanda Barker have curated 14 very real and very stunning works of art from Queen West’s Norman Felix Gallery. And over the course of one whirlwind hour, the gallery will be their personal playground, giving Randy and Evi Quaid a forum to regale audiences with real – and possibly less-than-real – tales of their lives, their love, and their ongoing to-the-death battle against a shadowy syndicate bent on ‘starwhacking’ them and their celebrity brethren.
The transformation of Cirque Du Soleil performer and Celine Dion dancer to performer generated theater artist is mirrored in this dark, comic and at times grotesque fable about our modern obsession with image. The exquisite movement skills of Lafond juxtapose with the world of distortion and manipulation accentuating LITTLE LADY’s tormented and blissful metamorphosis.
Three people. Two Black, one White. Adjacent tenement houses in a poor London neighborhood. The thin walls expose the undercurrent of deep racial economic divide and the brutal unspoken truths about domestic violence; displaying the frightening reality that both are on the rise in our current world climate.
Toronto based company Bound to Create Theatre, is proud topresent the North American Premiere of Debbie Tucker Green’s modern classic, Dirty Butterfly, at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival, from July 4th to the 15th, 2012.
Drawn from almost two hours of original material written by the cast, All the World’s a Stage of Grief is an explosive 60-minute theatrical sketch comedy revue that will leave audiences begging for more. Boisterous, energetic and never taking itself too seriously, it’s the most fun you’ll have at the Toronto Fringe—or, at the very least, the most fun you’ll have at a show with the word “grief” in the title.
Here is the end of the world and no one else sees it.
