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Crisis On St. Creskins revisits the world of Feint of Hart, an absurd comedy with cabaret flourishes set in the fictional world of transmedia artist Henri Fabergé. As a site-specific production held in the historic Campbell House Museum, Creskins is a standalone special exploring Boyce’s rivalry with eccentric art school Hart College during a fictional Christmas-like celebration. A talented cast (alongside different surprise guests at each performance) presents a mix of scripted comedy, improvisation, and music for an unforgettable new holiday tradition. The audience will be treated to a multi-part theatrical romp through the various lush spaces of this historic house.
Campbell House Museum (160 Queen St. W., at Osgoode Subway Station) December 13th - 2pm (Preview Matinee), 7pm & 9:30pm; December 14th - 2pm, 7pm & 9:30pm; December 15th - 7pm & 9:30pm
For tickets please contact Campbell House Museum at 416.597.0227 ext. 2, or http:// www.brownpapertickets.com/event/908747
Disclaimer: Please note that the show contains some mature subject matter and is suited for patrons aged 12 and older. Parental guidance is advised.
SYNOPSIS:
The Headmistress of Hart College cordially invites you to her annual Holiday Salon, a chance to mingle with professors and your Edwardian art student offspring alike during the festive St. Creskins season.
Oh, that room in there? It's just Headmaster General Lorette and co. from Boyce Naval Academy. While their own dilapidated ruins are under repairs, they have been generously billeted for the holidays. They may even collaborate with the art students on the annual telling of the Creskins tale.
But young Henri Fabergé, the apple of Lorette's eye, is less interested in an illustrious military career now that he's getting a taste of bohemian dalliances. Woe, a crisis may be brewing...
FABERGÉ FRUITS is a performance collective producing ambitious “punk opera” plays based in the alternate reality of spoiled aristocrat Henri Fabergé. Combining scripted scenes, improvisation, music, comedy, and a sprawling chorus with raw lush production design, our productions immerse the audience in a uniquely surreal fairytale.
We aim to explore the social rules, rituals, and hierarchal structures we inherit, in an attempt to understand their origins and pervasiveness, with special attention towards the themes of gender, sexuality, power, free will, the writing of history, personal transmutation and spiritual knowledge. The character of Henri Fabergé - a young man who struggles to abandon his inherited position of privilege in search of absolute truth - is placed throughout human history, allowing for a study and re-contextualization of these issues, seen anew through a contemporary lens.
Fabergé Fruits was created during Henri Fabergé’s artist residency at Hart House (University of Toronto) from 2009-2011. Henri Fabergé’s Feint of Hart was a seven-episode monthly series of 90 minute "punk operas" combining scripted theatre, improvised comedy, live rock music, video projections, conceptual dance, ambitious production design and a show-within-a-show cabaret to include guest performers. Condensed versions of Feint of Hart were commissioned by Leslie Feist for a private function and presented in a two-week run at Videofag.
The equally successful followup, Heligoland Follies, further developed this collaborative process in a six episode series, with over 50 featured performers.
Fabergé Fruits was commissioned to produce Art Court for Summerworks Festival (August 2013) and On the Lamb for the Rhubarb Festival (February 2014).
Crisis on St. Creskins was first presented in December 2013, with the various spaces within Comedy Bar representing the hallowed halls of Boyce Naval Academy. We are excited to incorporate the prestigious aesthetic of Campbell House into an entirely new iteration of this exciting production.
Fabergé Fruits is in talks to create original productions in collaboration with local performers in Halifax, New York and Berlin.
Photo: Cast of Crisis on St. Creskins.
2014-11-25
Toronto: Feint of Hart presents Henri Fabergé's "Crisis on St. Creskins" December 13-15