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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 & 9pm; December 14th - 2pm, 7pm & 9pm; December 15th - 7pm & 9pm
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
~ experiments in existential absurdity ~
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.
2014-11-04
Toronto: Feint of Hart presents "Crisis on St. Creskins" at the Campbell House December 13-15