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Fringe News
Toronto: This exciting juried festival invites the best 8 performances of the Fringe Festival to the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Each piece runs 45-90 min, and includes anything from dance, plays, comedy, drama, and musicals – essentially any performing art form! In a single night you will be able to see two very different performances – and we’ve screened them for you!
This year's picks are...
HELP YOURSELF
By Kat Sandler, co-created by Daniel Pagett
Presented by Theatre Brouhaha
Donny wants to help Ted do a bad thing...Hot on the heels of the Next Stage Festival hit, LOVESEXMONEY, comes a dark comedy about a man whose job is to justify the immoral acts that most of us only dream of.
www.theatrebrouhaha.com
Playing: Jul 18 - 9pm, Jul 21 - 7pm, Jul 22- 3pm, Jul 28 - 9pm
MAHMOUD
By Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis
Presented by Pandemic Theatre
MAHMOUD is a one-woman show about an aging Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver, a fabulously gay Spaniard, and a preteen Iranian-Canadian girl, all trying to get by the day-to-day grind in the city that they call home: Toronto.
www.pandemictheatre.ca
Playing: Jul 25- 7pm, Jul 27 - 9pm, Jul 28- 7pm, Jul 29 - 1pm
POMME IS FRENCH FOR APPLE
By Liza Paul and Bahia Watson
Presented by Paul Watson Productions
A fast-paced, funny and distinctly West Indian series of vignettes exploring the absurdity of women’s lives in settings diverse as the islands, downtown Toronto, southeast London, and the too-tight crotch of the pants.
www.pommeisfrenchforapple.com
Playing: Jul 20- 7pm, Jul 27 - 7pm, Aug 3- 9pm
RARE
By Judith Thompson
Presented by Diverse Creations
Nick feels like tall sexy grass and Mike dives deep into poetry. Krystal thinks about prenatal testing, while Nada speaks in four languages. They are all RARE and part of a nine-member ensemble that have Down syndrome. Be prepared to rethink whatever you thought about intelligence, soul and heart.
www.facebook.com/rare2012
Playing: Aug 1- 7pm, Aug 2 - 9pm, Aug 3- 7pm
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
By Neil LaBute
Presented by Lone Pine
When Adam, a geeky English Literature major meets Evelyn, an intriguing graduate art student, at the local museum where he works, his life takes an unexpected turn.
www.theatrebassaris.com
Playing: Jul 21- 9pm, Jul 22 - 1pm, Aug 1 - 9pm
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
By William Shakespeare
Presented by Shakespeare BASH'd
Shakespeare’s rambunctious, farcical, & controversial comedy about courtship, marriage, and love finds new life in this staging by Toronto’s Shakespeare BASH’d. The stage will be set for the original battle of the sexes, but in the end love may triumph.
Playing: Jul 19- 7pm, Jul 20 - 9pm, Aug 2 - 7pm
THE WAKOWSKI BROTHERS
By Wesley J. Colford
Presented by Aim for the Tangent Theatre
After 8 long years of silence, re-live the songs you love and the jokes you love to groan at! Learn the secrets of their legendary show biz success! Hear the shocking truth of their sudden retirement and mourn the loss of a bygone age.
Playing: Jul 25- 9pm, Jul 29 - 3pm
WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN
By Julia Lederer
Presented by QuestionMark-Exclamation Theatre
A comedy with guts – about pheromones, fate and the TTC. WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN beautifully depicts tragic, bold and hopelessly romantic characters with lots of heart and little social grace.
www.questionmarkexclamationtheatre.com
Playing: Jul 18- 7pm, Jul 19 - 9pm, Jul 21 - 3pm
All tickets are $16.50 and are available by calling Ticketmaster at 1-855-985-2787, online at Ticketmaster.ca or in person at the Toronto Centre for the Arts Box office at 5040 Yonge Street.
www.tocentre.com
2012-07-13
Toronto Centre for the Arts announces its Best of the Fringe line-up running July 18-August 3