“A play dedicated to caring teachers everywhere”

Excerpt from press release:

Ms. X. is an elementary school teacher, dedicated to her students, zipping zippers, tying shoelaces and scurrying through a maze of school politics.

Scandal. Betrayal. A missing carrot graph. LEGS CROSSED HANDS ON YOUR LAP is a humourous look inside the teaching profession.

William Cordon Taylor (Director/Dramaturgy) Troillus and Cressida 3000 (2014 Brooklyn Fringe). Debra Hale (Actor) Freedom 85! (2008 Toronto Fringe & 2009 NYC’s Frigid Fringe) Stevie Jay
(Actor) The Lion, Witch and The Wardrobe (2012 Toronto Fringe) Jamillah Ross (Actor) Orphan Black, Lost Girl, Second City Mainstage Alumnus. Yael Sirlin (Playwright) Nice To Meet You (Cabbagetown Theatre 2010) Windows, Walls and Doors (Toronto Fringe 2007). Yael’s latest work: Legs Crossed Hands On Your Lap is a play dedicated to caring teachers everywhere.

Showtimes:

Friday, July 3, 2015 4:45pm – 5:45pm
Saturday, July 4, 2015 1:45pm – 2:45pm
Monday, July 6, 2015 2:45pm – 3:45pm
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:45pm – 9:45pm
Thursday, July 9, 2015 11:00pm – 12:00am
Friday, July 10, 2015 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Saturday, July 11, 2015 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Venue: Tarragon Theatre Extraspace (30 Bridgman Ave.)

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $10, $12 in advance. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s, (481 Bloor West), or — if any remain — from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime.

The festival offers a range of money-saving passes for committed Fringers; see website for details.

Be advised that Fringe shows always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.

Photo provided by company.

“A new, standalone story & follow-up to the 2014 Toronto Fringe sellout hit Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl”

Excerpt from press release:

Perry brings back lovable redhead Joanie Little to The 2015 Toronto Fringe with another hilarious story! Join her on an anthropological expedition in Adventures of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl:

Out of the coffee shop and into the jungle! Joanie follows her anthropologist dreams, starting work at The Jane Goodall Institute in Tanzania! But there’s trouble in paradise…Joanie is field research partners with a fiery Scotsman, whose bite is just as bad as his bark, and a chimp that would rather play fetch like a dog than act like a primate. Welcome to the jungle, Joanie!

Rebecca Perry’s award-winning Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl sold out its entire run in 2014, across the Canadian Fringe circuit and into NYC. Not only was the show featured on CBC Radio, Global TV and filmed live for Bell TV’s On Stage On Demand, Rebecca was interviewed about the show for an article in the National Post looking at redheads in the public eye.

Showtimes:

Friday, July 3rd, 10:30pm
Saturday, July 4th, 12:00pm
Sunday, July 5th, 5:45pm
Monday, July 6th, 8:30pm
Tuesday, July 7th, 12:30pm
Wednesday, July 8th 11:00pm
Sunday, July 12th, 5:45pm

Venue: The Annex Theatre

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $10, $12 in advance. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s, (481 Bloor West), or — if any remain — from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime.

The festival offers a range of money-saving passes for committed Fringers; see website for details.

Be advised that Fringe shows always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.

Photo provided by the company.

“Get aboard the generational journey that won the Toronto Fringe’s New Play Contest.“

Excerpt from press release:

Winner of the Toronto Fringe’s 2015 New Play Contest, Rukmini’s Gold is about connections and moments of departure. An old Indian woman clutching her suitcase hobbles onto a deserted platform, distraught at missing her train. Set in stations around the world over 150 years, this heartwarming and amusing play tracks the passages of family and diaspora.

Initially presented as Ghost Train Riders, a short play, at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival, the piece soon received development with Sasha Kovacs. Director Trilby James staged a reading in February in London, U.K, as part of Kali Theatre Talkback 2015. Rukmini’s Gold next pulls into Toronto’s Factory Theatre before returning to the Hamilton Fringe in Red Betty’s hometown.

Written by Radha S. Menon (finalist for the Woodward/Newman International Playwriting Prize and an honorable mention for the Herman Voaden Playwriting Contest) and directed by Wes Berger (Outstanding Direction from NOW Magazine forThe Naked Ballerina), Rukmini’s Gold features a cast of eight actors who play nineteen roles from the South Asian diaspora over ninety minutes.  Dora-winning designer Kelly Wolf costumes the different eras and settings.

Showtimes:

Wednesday July 1 @ 8:15pm
Saturday July 4 @ 5:15pm
Monday July 6 @ 10:15pm
Tuesday July 7 @ 6:30pm
Wednesday July 8 @ 5:15pm
Friday July 10 @ 12:00pm
Sunday July 12 @ 7:00pm

Venue: Factory Theatre Mainspace  (125 Bathurst Street)

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $10, $12 in advance. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s, (481 Bloor West), or — if any remain — from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime.

The festival offers a range of money-saving passes for committed Fringers; see website for details.

Be advised that Fringe shows always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.

Photo by Radha S. Menon.

“[A]  multisensory performance experience, exploring how memory functions, how it collapses, and what we become when our memory begins to fade.“

Excerpt from press release:

Who are you when you have no memory of yourself? What do we become when our histories disappear?

“How Often Do I Dream…” is a multisensory performance experience, exploring how memory functions, how it collapses, and what we become when our memory begins to fade.

When actor/writer Katie Dorian’s beloved “Opi” developed dementia she realized that her identity was interwoven with his.  Opi’s story of coming to Canada on November 28, 1961, as a cold-war refugee, and everything that both preceded and followed from that has formed part of her own distinct individuality. Mapping her interactions with her Opi as he slowly disappeared, Dorian struggles with the loss, the change in family roles and the dissolving family history to draw universal truths about the nature of memory, identity and family.

Told with compassion, humour and heartache, How Often Do I Dream…, is an award winning (Best Solo Show, Atlantic Fringe Festival 2014) collaborative creation by Dorian and director Alexis Milligan.  Dorian is an accomplished young actor who has worked with 2b Theatre, Zuppa Theatre, and Anthony Sherwood. Milligan is an internationally noted artist both in theatre and dance.

Showtimes:

Wednesday July 1, 6:30 pm
Friday July 3, 4:45 pm
Saturday July 4, 6:45 pm
Sunday July 5, 2:45 pm
Tuesday July 7, 3:15 pm
Wednesday July 8, 10:00 pm
Friday July 10, 3:30 pm
Saturday July 11, 8:00 pm

Venue: Tarragon Theatre Solo Room

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $10, $12 in advance. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s, (481 Bloor West), or — if any remain — from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime.

The festival offers a range of money-saving passes for committed Fringers; see website for details.

Be advised that Fringe shows always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.

Photo provided by company.

“[A] a funny and poignant look at middle age, solitude and finding your own voice.”

Excerpted from press release:

A woman inexplicably finds herself stranded on an island with only a seagull for company and, between attempts at being rescued and finding distractions to occupy her, she reflects on her experiences as a parent and teacher and starts to wonder if there’s a point to going back to it. A little schtick, a little storytelling, Washed Up is a funny and poignant look at middle age, solitude and finding your own voice.

The unexamined life may not be worth living but sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to precipitate those moments of self-reflection. This story is about those “Is that all there is?” moments we all struggle through at regular points in our lives.

Joanne Latimer is the co-founder of NightShift Theatre, and recently directed its successful production of George F. Walker’s Problem Child. Latimer, who played the original Mrs. Vitale in Second City’s long-running hit Tony and Tina’s Wedding, is no stranger to comedy but is not well acquainted with silence. This is her first ever self-created solo show!

Showtimes:

July 2, 2015 -7:45pm
July 4, 2015 -3:15pm
July 5, 2015 -4:30pm
July 6, 2015 -2:15pm
July 8, 2015 -10:00pm
July 9, 2015 -4:30pm
July 10, 2015 -8:45pm
July 12, 2015 -2:15 pm

Venue: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (16 Ryerson Ave.)

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $10, $12 in advance. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s, (481 Bloor West), or — if any remain — from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime.

The festival offers a range of money-saving passes for committed Fringers; see website for details.

Be advised that Fringe shows always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.

Photo provided by the company.