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Fringe News
Toronto Fringe Festival veteran Jessica Moss returns with an all-star team for Cam Baby, a fast-paced ensemble comedy about the selves we create, and the stories we consume, presented by Theatre Mischief at the Factory Theatre Mainspace, July 1-10, 2016.
Matabang and Joseph secretly webcam girls in Joseph's apartment, for fun and profit; until they end up renting to Clara, who doesn't exactly meet their beauty standards. But when Clara starts a romance with Tim, the videos take on a life of their own...and everyone is forced to examine their relationships with each other, and with themselves.
Cam Baby was developed at The Juilliard School, where Moss is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellow, under the direction of Marsha Norman and Chris Durang. The play was selected for a reading at Roundabout Theatre as part of Roundabout Underground’s Reading Series. Moss’ solo work has been hailed as ‘glorious’ (National Post), and ‘pure joy’ (NOW), and sold out runs at Fringe and Next Stage, and with Cam Baby, she debuts a multi-actor piece in her hometown of Toronto.
The show features an all-star team both on and offstage, made up of some of the most exciting talents in Toronto theatre. Director Charlotte Gowdy makes her Fringe debut after assistant directing Tim Carroll’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe at the Stratford Festival, with support from assistant director Taylor Trowbridge (The Tempest, Canadian Stage), designer Brandon Kleiman (Blind Date, Tarragon; Stratford Festival), and stage manager Meredith Henry (Up the Garden Path, Obsidian). Forming the cast is Karl Ang (The Madness of the Square, Factory/Cahoots; Stratford Festival), Ashley Botting (Canadian Comedy Award Winner; Sixteen Scandals, How to Kill a Comedian, Second City), Andrew Cameron (True Love Lies, Factory; Smokescreen, Roseneath), Brandon Coffey (A Bullet for Adolf, New World Stage, Rookie Blue), Beau Dixon (Dora Award Winner for Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story; Titus Andronicus, Canadian Stage) and Christine Horne (Canadian Screen Award Winner for ‘Remedy’; The Seagull, Crow’s; Belleville, Company Theatre).
Touching on ideas of voyeurism, consent, privacy, identity and lookism, this is a play for right now. Come take a peek. It’s fun to watch.
FACTORY THEATRE MAINSPACE. 125 Bathurst St.
SHOWTIMES:
Fri., July 1 – 4.45-6.15pm Wed., July 6 – 11pm-12.30am Fri., July 8 – 5:45 -7:15pm Sat., July 2 – 7.00-8.30pm Thurs., July 7 – 7-8.30pm Sun., July 10 – 12pm-1:30pm Mon., July 4- 1.00-2.30pm
TICKETS: $12 (fringetoronto.com, 416 966 1062, or at the door).
Theatre Mischief Media Contact: Jessica Moss – 917 238 4451, cambabyfringe@gmail.com. Toronto Fringe Media Contact: Autumn Smith – 416 966 1062 ext.8, communications@fringetoronto.com
Photo: Ashley Botting and Brandon Coffey. ©2016 Dahlia Katz.
2016-06-07
Fringe: Cam Baby