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Canada's largest ten-minute play festival, the InspiraTO Theatre Festival, offers an innovative approach to the ten-minute play format. This upcoming season there are 4 distinct shows, with 6 ten-minute plays in each show. Each show addresses a creative challenge: RedShow - all the plays have the opening line, “I see a rabbit”; BlueShow - all the plays have at least one of the characters leaving home; OrangeShow - all the plays take place in a tunnel; YellowShow - all the plays use rope as an integral part the play. This year, for the first time in its history, the InspiraTO Festival will also feature the White Show - a “safari” approach where audiences will be led to four site specific venues and see a ten-minute play at each venue.
This will be InspiraTO’s largest collection of plays to date: 28 ten-minute plays (four shows with 6 ten-minute plays in each, and a safari show with four venue specific ten-minute plays). With a growing trend in theatre to offer exciting new approaches that audiences find intriguing and accessible, InspiraTO has a format that appeals to today’s theatre-goer. “Each play is a self-standing entity with its own pitch, rhythm and pace. And yet, each is a microcosm of a greater whole” (Dominik Loncar, Artistic Director of the festival).
Half the plays are selected from an international competition (there were over 230 play submissions). The other half are from new Canadian voices – InspiraTO’s Playwrights’ Mentoring Project – where 12 aspiring playwrights are mentored to write a ten-minute play. Each playwright receives training, a dramaturg, and a workshopping of their play along with guaranteed productions in the festival.
8th Annual InspiraTO Theatre Festival
Curated theatre: connected by theme: unified by colour
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, May 30: 7 pm: RedShow, 9 pm: BlueShow
Friday, May 31: 8 pm: OrangeShow, 10 pm: YellowShow
Saturday, June 1: 4 pm: RedShow, 6 pm: YellowShow, 8 pm: BlueShow
Wednesday, June 5: 7 pm: OrangeShow, 9 pm: RedShow
Thursday, June 6: 7 pm: BlueShow, 9 pm: YellowShow
Friday, June 7: 8 pm: YellowShow, 10 pm: OrangeShow
Saturday, June 8: 4 pm: BlueShow, 6 pm: OrangeShow, 8 pm: RedShow
WhiteShow ("safari"approach): May 31, June 1, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Shows at 7:55 pm (start at the Alumnae Theatre Box Office).
VENUE: Alumnae Theatre
70 Berkeley Street, ON, Toronto (one block West of Parliament on Adelaide)
DATES: May 30-June 8, 2013
TICKETS: $15 / $12 for students; Festival Pass: $50/ $40 for students (four shows)
Available online: http://www.snapuptickets.com/events/detail/8th-inspirato-theatre-festival#.UXRMnkoTRqM
Or the Alumnae Theatre Box Office – open one hour before each show.
Full schedule and more information visit: www.inspiratofestival.ca
2013-05-14
Toronto: The 8th annual “InspiraTO Theatre Festival” of 10-minute plays runs May 30-June 8