Stage Door News
Stage Door News
The Bad Dog Theatre Company is all packed up and heading to camp - and bringing the incredible all-female cast of last year’s hit unscripted serial WAYWARD with them! Helmed by internationally acclaimed improviser Becky Johnson (Iron Cobra, The Sufferettes, catch23 IMPROV), CAMP WAYWARD reunites a truly remarkable team of women for this completely improvised upstairs-downstairs grown-up soap opera set against the backdrop of an all-girls sleep-away summer camp… from morning flag pole through to the final notes of Taps.
Johnson, who moved to Toronto 13 years ago, was inspired to stage the first iteration of this show to celebrate the multiple generations of outstanding female improvisers she has encountered in the city. “It’s a construct to create inter-generational communication - to create a world wherein the best and worst of us can come forward in a comedic light. WAYWARD is also about expectation and rebellion. It is about the out-of-control forces in us all and the ways in which we triumph over them and triumph with them.”
CAMP WAYWARD pairs veteran comedic powerhouses like Carolyn Taylor (writer This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Lisa Merchant (Train 48, Monkey Toast), Christy Bruce (the SOAPS!, Blind Date) Aurora Browne (Video Cabaret, Comedy Inc.) and Jan Caruana (Mean Girls, Bonspeil!) with improv darlings Kayla Lorette (Henri Faberge’s Feint of Heart, That’s So Weird), Evany Rosen (Picnicface, Bad Dog Repertory Players) Ashley Comeau (Second City Mainstage, Theatresports), Kirsten Rasmussen (Bad Dog Repertory Players, TOUGH), Jess Bryson (Vancouver Theatresports, Hawkins) and Monica Heisey (VICE, She Does the City). Camp Wayward’s musical director is indie-pop songstress Laura Barrett (Sheezer, The Hidden Cameras)
THREE SHOWS ONLY.
Wednesdays, 9:30 pm
April 30, May 7 & 14
Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor St. West
Tickets: www.comedybar.ca
Comedy Bar Box Office 416-551-6540
Also available at the door.
$12 adults, $10 students
2014-04-21
Toronto: Toronto: All-female "Camp Wayward" plays at the Comedy Bar April 30, May 7 & May 14