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Nobody's Business Theatre's Morgan Norwich (The Other Three Sisters, Boylesque TO, Dora nominee for Tough!) brings her hit Fringe character Maude-Lynne back to the stage this December for An Especially Maude-Lynne Xmas. Hailed as "both magnetic and gut-busting" by Eye Weekly and "impeccably droll" by NOW Magazine when she debuted at the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival, Maude-Lynne is ready to give The Grinch and Ebeneezer Scrooge a run for their money in this new anti-Christmas special, created by Norwich and Johnnie Walker (Redheaded Stepchild).
Equally obsessed with Victorian gothic literature and the Internet, Maude-Lynne has organized her own Christmas spectacular, complete with carols, presents for the audience, and an interactive pantomime. Featuring accompaniment from Second City Training Centre Musical Director Peter Cavell (who also plays Maude-Lynne's long-suffering boyfriend Colin) and surprise video cameos from ghosts of Nobody's Business Theatre’s past. Join Maude-Lynne’s Reluctant Wassail for Yuletide Misfits at Kensington Market's newest venue for provocative performance, Videofag.
Praise for A Maude-Lynne Evening:
“A quirky, wit-laden script provides a solid backbone for this show, while Norwich brings it to uproarious life with her geeky grandiosity, sharp ad-libbing, and eventual character unravelling, which rivals Robert Downey Jr.’s in Tropic Thunder.” – Eye Weekly
Praise for performer Morgan Norwich:
"Five feet of spark-plug fire!" – Xtra!
"Norwich has the dramatic features of an Almodóvar muse." - NOW Magazine
“Nobody’s Business Theatre has a remarkably high pedigree in this city’s independent theatre circles.” – Mooney on Theatre
Founded in 2005 by Johnnie Walker and Morgan Norwich, Nobody’s Business Theatre is a critically acclaimed Toronto‐based company of young artists dedicated to the creation and production of new work that is exciting, accessible to all communities, and completely hilarious.
Videofag is a storefront cinema and performance space in Toronto's Kensington Market dedicated to the creation and exhibition of video, film, new media, and live art.
Nobody's Business Theatre in association with Videofag presents
An Especially Maude-Lynne Xmas:
A Reluctant Wassail for Yuletide Misfits
written by Morgan Norwich & Johnnie Walker
directed by Johnnie Walker
starring Morgan Norwich with Peter Cavell
December 20-22 at 8:00 pm
Videofag, 187 Augusta Ave
Tickets: $15. For advance tickets, go to nobodysbusiness.eventbrite.ca. For more information, go to nobodysbusiness.ca. Stick around after the show each night for a special holiday party!
Photo: Morgan Norwich as Maude-Lynne. ©2012 Greg Wong.
2012-11-29
Toronto: Fringe favourite Maude-Lynne returns for “An Especially Maude-Lynne Xmas” December 20-22