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We are besieged by hazards, real and imagined, those outside ourselves, and the ones inside our minds - from corrosive substances to not knowing which fork to use; from freefalling into love to meeting your personal Waterloo; from a meteor hitting earth to handwriting that begins to look like your mother’s, even though she’s left-handed and you are right-handed. HAZARDS, a one-woman show created by New York Times best-selling author Mina Samuels, will play at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival July 5-13, 2013.
Inspired by the warning signs we encounter every day, HAZARDS dives into the chaotic soup of our minds, exposing our worries, from the personal to the universal, and our deep-seated fear of humiliation if we are “found out.” A performance piece in the absurdist tradition, HAZARDS combines spoken word with sometimes-frenetic, sometimes-beseeching movement, bringing us face-to-face with the question of our own significance in the universe. And the answer is: YES!
HAZARDS’ playwright/performer Mina Samuels (Do You Know Me?) is also a successful author in both fiction and non-fiction genres, publishing a novel, The Queen of Cups, in 2007; Run Like A Girl: How Strong Women Make Happy Lives in 2011, for which she appeared on The Today Show; and co-authoring the New York Times bestseller The Think Big Manifesto with Michael Port in 2009. Returning to her first creative love - live theatre - Mina pairs up with director Lisa Chess (Do You Know Me?) to bring HAZARDS to the Toronto Fringe stage.
More information is available via www.minasamuels.com. Follow HAZARDS on Facebook for an ongoing irreverent celebration of the hazards we encounter in our everyday lives: www.facebook.com/HazardsPerformancePiece.
hazards
A performance piece in the absurdist tradition, which dives into the chaotic soup of our minds, exposing our worries and enacting our deep seated fear of humiliation if we are “found out”. A combination of spoken word and sometimes-frenetic movement, which brings us face to face with the question of our own significance in the universe. And yes, we are.
By: Mina Samuels
Company: LifeWorks
Company origin: New York, NY
Director: Lisa Chess
Cast: Mina Samuels
Show length: 55min.
This performance is not accessible for non-English speakers
http://www.minasamuels.com/performing.htm
venue
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
show times
July 05 05:15 PM
July 06 07:30 PM
July 07 09:00 PM
July 09 03:00 PM
July 10 09:15 PM
July 11 12:15 PM
July 13 11:00 PM
Genre(s): Drama, Physical Theatre
Please note there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
Toronto Fringe Festival, July 3-14
Fringe Box Office Information: On-line sales www.fringetoronto.com
By phone: 416-966-1062; Ticket cost: $10.00 (at the door); $11.00 (in advance)
Photo: Bryce Alexander Dudley.
2013-07-02
Hazards