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Mummy Productions presents KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER, a comedy on small-town society written and performed by Ann Holloway, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, April 17 – 26, 2015.
Hilariously funny, KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER is a ribald mockery of western cultures' sexist slant. KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER begins as a farcical probe into the sexual habits of the small lake basin town of Kingstonia, shifting into an expose of western culture's studied manipulation of original feminist myths of creation and sacred feminine sexuality into pornography. KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER is a comic tribute to our women ancestors, who summoned the courage to speak out by deploying laughter as rebellion against misogyny. Our history reveals, upon closer unbiased inspection, woman's laughter as a song of healing and a symbol of regeneration. This is a bold burlesque belly laughter that thumbs its nose at western cultures' sexual imperialism. This woman’s' laughter offers a way out, or, as Lysistrata puts it: "up from under."
Called “a powerful stage presence” by Toronto’s NOW magazine Ann Holloway has been a professional actor in Toronto in film, television and on stage primarily in the work of Judith Thompson and Sky Gilbert since 1989. After playing a selection of deranged whack jobs it became clear that low comedy was Holloway's forte and she began experimenting with writing comic monologues dramatizing feminist resistance to the sexist status quo. KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER continues Holloway’s exploration she began with Kingstonia Dialect Perverso in 2005 - to disprove the myth that women have no sense of humour.
Mummy Productions presents:
KINGSTONIA: UP FROM UNDER
Written and performed by Ann Holloway
With cameos by Keith Cole and Ryley Murray
April 17 – 26, 2015 – OPENING NIGHT: Thursday, April 17, 8PM Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Tallulah’s Cabaret
12 Alexander Street
Tickets: $10.00 / Sunday matinees PWYC
Tickets are available in person at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre box office, over the telephone at 416-975-8555 or online at www.buddiesinbadtimes.com.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Friday April 17 & Saturday April 18, 8PM; Sunday April 19, 4pm (PWYC); Thursday April 23 - Saturday April 25, 8PM; Sunday April 26, 4PM (PWYC)
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Toronto: "Kingstonia: Up from Under" plays at Buddies in Bad Times April 17-26