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For one night only, Monkeyman Productions presents the return of their 2012 Toronto Fringe production, Headshots and Healing Potions. This collection of short plays about the gamer experience played to enthusiastic audiences as a part of the Fringe AlleyPlays program, and now we’re giving you two more chances to join the party!
You’ll be taken to an old-school text based adventure and to the latest in co-op battlefields, experiencing the digitized world through the eyes of n00bs and pros alike. We’ll explore love, sex, feminism, and the generation gap in gaming, taking a trip through the best and worst that the art form can offer. We’ll even take a crack at sorting out just why it is that video game movies never seem to get it right.
Headshots and Healing Potions is written by D.J. Sylvis and Manda Whitney, directed by Martin Chodorek, and stage managed by Lisa Sciannella. Manda Whitney also acts in the show, along with Adam Cresswell and Jeffrey Henderson.
Monkeyman Productions presents a remount of their Fringe show
HEADSHOTS AND HEALING POTIONS
Friday, October 12th – shows at 7:30 and 9:30pm
The Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East, Toronto
All tickets $10 – available online or at the door
More information at www.monkeymanproductions.com
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Since 2008, Monkeyman Productions has created postmodern theatre with real relevancy to a culture informed by comic books, monster movies, and video games. We speak in the language of an audience that has most truly found its voice in the meme-ridden YouTube-obsessed depths of the Internet. We draw from popular culture in the way that Shakespeare drew from the common culture of his day – these are our mythologies, our tales of comedy and tragedy.
Through the development and performance of work which examines our obsessions and preoccupations in the 21st Century, we hope to discover the ways in which we truly have changed, for better or worse, and the ways in which we remain the same – with a definite eye toward the absurd, but also a corresponding empathy for a subject matter that, in the end, encompasses all of us.
Photo: Jeffrey Henderson, Manda Whitney and Adam Cresswell
2012-09-05
Toronto: Monkeyman Productions presents a remount of “Headshots and Healing Potions” on October 12