Fringe News
Fringe News
Theatre 20 is proud to be a part of the city's vibrant theatre community, and what better time to show our support towards our fellow artists then during one of the city's largest theatre festivals? The Toronto Fringe Festival runs from July 1-12, 2015 at various locations in downtown Toronto. We've put together a list of some must-see shows that we can't wait to check out in the coming weeks; hope to see you there!
To learn more about the Toronto Fringe Festival, check out their website or like them on facebook.
Adventures of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl
Rebecca Perry Productions
This new, standalone story & follow-up to the 2014 Toronto Fringe sell-out hit, is more caffeinated fun …with chimps!
"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!"
Comedy, Theatre,
60 min long
Check out the website for more details.
Morro & Jasp Do Puberty
U.N.I.T. Productions
A hilarious look back at the best period of your life! Clown sisters Morro and Jasp are at that age where the hormones are always flaring, the telephone is always ringing, and the punk rock can never be too loud. As Morro attempts to learn about feminine hygiene products, bras and fashion, all Jasp can think about is the boy of her dreams. This show explores the trials and tribulations that we all had to go through, are going through, or are about to go through on the way to becoming a grown-up. 60 minutes of laughter, longing, tears and tampons.
Comedy, Theatre
60 min long
Support their trip to the Edinburgh Fringe.
People Suck
Nutmeg Creations
Jerks, morons, flakes – let’s face it: PEOPLE SUCK. A hilarious and all-too-relatable new musical which explores the many, many ways in which people are just the worst. You’ll wish for your optimism back!
“Charismatic and charming” -PLANK Magazine
“One of the most unique and wonderful offerings at the Fringe” -theatreinlondon.ca
Warnings: Sexual Content, Mature Language
Musical, Comedy
75 min long
Check out their website for more details.
Summerland
Wexford Performing Arts
The Breakfast Club meets Peter Pan meets Lord of the Flies in this ground-breaking new musical about ten high school students stranded between worlds after a highway bus accident. Incredibly moving, often hilarious and compelling from start to finish, Summerland explores and celebrates what it is to be a teen today.
Arrive at the venue at least 30 minutes before your performance start time to have the full high school experience!
Musical
90 min long
Check out their website for more details.
Deadmouse: The Musical
Malach Productions
Deadmouse: The Musical is a comedy about a mouse who aspires to be a house DJ but is discriminated against for being a mouse. Joel Zimmermouse must team up with his best friend David Goudda and his flame, Cat, to overcome speciest discrimination and the mouse hating House DJ Avicheese. Not featuring the music of Deadmau5. Book of Mormon meets Ratatouille.
Warnings: Sexual Content, Mature Language, Strobe Light
Comedy, Musical
60 min long
Check out their website for more info.
I'm Right Here
Victor Theatre Productions Inc.
We have a thousand friends on Facebook. We text dozens of people a day. Our heads are buried in our phones. We can be standing right next to someone and not notice them at all. Looking up and connecting to one person might be the biggest challenge we face today. I'M RIGHT HERE is a theatre song-cycle about relationships in our world of technology and social media.
Musical, Theatre
50 min long
Check out their website for more details.
Perceptions of Love in the Pursuit of Happiness
Three Five Productions
A pregnancy. An affair. A marriage counsellor. Facades and ideals falter as the lives of three couples intertwine and they are each forced to examine the underbelly of their relationship in this new drama about love and the pursuit of happiness.
Drama, Theatre
90 min long
Check out their facebook page for more details.
Starry Notions
Nefarious Projects
Grit, glitter & laughter of cabaret star RYAN G. HINDS (sold-out, Just For Laughs; Artist-in-Residence, Buddies) with live band. Weaving intimate storytelling with Grace Jones tangos, CanCon classics, Disney villains and Kander & Ebb, Hinds builds to a chance meeting on a San Francisco bus that emphasizes the importance of holding ferociously onto your dream.
Music, Story-Telling
60 min long
Check out their website for more details.
The Hollow Square
kith&kin
The audience steps back in time to meet characters from 1847 Toronto, including a Singing Master who leads them in a “choral tsunami” of old-time shape-note hymns. Toronto Island vocal trio kith&kin (who “create gather-ye-together events that engender a deep sense of warmth and belonging”) collaborate with boundary-pushing companies wheelwright & Shadowland.
Musical, Theatre
60 min long
Check out their website for more details.
Heart Puppetations
SDT Productions
Meet Sandy, a man who pours his heart into puppetry at the expense of everything else. Frustrated, he creates Rose, a puppet in the image of his ideal woman, and is shocked when she comes to life. Though she isn’t what he expected her to be, but they fit together so well. Sandy knows a relationship is ludicrous but can love conquer all? This heart-warming family-friendly musical will leave you in stitches!
Musical, Comedy.
55 min long
Check out their show page for more details & to purchase tickets.
Becoming Burlesque
Jackie English Productions Inc.
A cabaret dance show about the evolution of a a shy, conflicted urban girl as she befriends a company of Burlesque performers and unleashes her inner Burlesque-self: BABYLON
Featuring choreography and scenes for the upcoming indie feature film: the magic of Pastel’s Love Letters Cabaret takes the stage!
It’s sexy, it’s saucy, it’s stylish. It’s BURLESQUE!
Warnings: Smoking, Nudity, Sexual Content, Mature Language, Audience Participation
Dance, theatre
60 min long.
See their site for more details.
Rounding The Bend
Out Of The Blue Theatre Company
Drinking, Dancing, Ladies Kissing: But Surprisingly Wholesome! “Rounding the Bend” is a one act musical, exploring female relationships and the blurred lines between love and friendship. A truthful look into being a young, “20 something” woman full of questions: Who am I? What do I want? Where am I going? And how the hell do I get there?
Warnings: Mature Language
Musical, Theatre
60 min long
See their facebook page for more details.
Princess Sparkly Butt & the Hot Dog Kid
Hazel House Productions
A space exploring Princess discovers that she can control time with her butt. She must use her butt powers for good, not evil, if she hopes to save her planet from totally exploding. This is an action-packed space musical featuring hot dogs, monsters and shimmering butts.
Fringe Kids, Musical, Comedy
55 min long.
Check out their show page for more details & to purchase tickets.
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Theatre 20's Toronto Fringe picks