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Bad Dog Theatre presents two new exciting improv shows for the spring season.
The Bad Dog Theatre Company presents
A PECULIAR PLACE FOR CURIOUS CREATURES
Fridays | 8pm | March 17 to April 14
Bad Dog Theatre Company brings together an expert cast of adult improvisers and Toronto's talented teen performers to create a strange, delightful, and hilarious improvised world in A Peculiar Place for Curious Children. Inspired by young adult Gothic fiction such as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the cast uses audience suggestions to build create an improvised adventure tale. This show seamlessly blends creepy with funny throughout, from the children with unique powers to the sinister adults they must fight against.
Fantastic feats, magic abilities, strange beasts- anything can happen in this hilarious world of peculiar people and curious creatures.
Directed by Nicole Passmore (Bad Dog's The One) and featuring performers from the Bad Dog Theatre Company and Second City Toronto, this skilled cast of comedy veterans and up-and-comers includes Kevin Vidal (CBC's Workin’ Moms), Kirsten Rasmussen (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Leigh Cameron (Second City Mainstage), Justin Collette (Get Some), Tim Blair (Second City Bob Curry Fellowship), Rosie Dempsey (Flo & Joan), Nina Adler (Bad Dog Featured Players), and teen performers from Bad Dog's Youth Academy.
A Peculiar Place for Curious Creatures
8PM | Fridays
March 17 to April 14
Preview: Friday, March 17
Opening: Friday, March 24
Students/Arts Workers $10 | Adults $15
online or in person at the box office
Bad Dog Comedy Theatre
875 Bloor St. W
http://baddogtheatre.com/a-peculiar-place
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The Bad Dog Theatre Company presents
Triplespeak
Fridays | 9:30pm | March 17 to April 14
This spring Toronto comedian Alex Tindal brings a new show, Triplespeak, to the Bad Dog stage. A long time performer in the international improv scene, Tindal will be uniting his love of unscripted theatre with an interest in social and personal narratives. Triplespeak follows a classic improvisational format, the Armando, wherein guest speakers will share monologues with the audience, to be interpreted by a cast of improv artists.
“The reason the Armando is so widely performed is that it cuts to the core of what’s funny: the truth. By inviting guests from beyond our theatre’s community to candidly share stories, we expose our stage to a breadth of personal truth. More than dramatizing these experiences, a skilled ensemble will deconstruct them to show an audience the edges of the social frameworks that make these stories so absurd, scary, triumphant, and human.” says Tindal “The format’s other strength lies in its simplicity: beyond knowing that our cast will take inspiration from the brief monologues shared by our guests, they are free to improvise without restriction. Each show builds itself out from the stories shared, as the cast weaves those experiences into new stories which, in a good Armando, make you laugh very hard, uniquely provoked by thought and feeling.”
Shows of this nature broaden our understanding of one another. They invite new truths to become part of a shared worldview. In a climate of polarizing realities it is crucial to share our stories and make sense of them together. Audiences will be treated to some of Toronto’s most engaging minds inspiring some of Toronto’s funniest improvisers, performing with intelligence and abandon.
Triplespeak is directed by Alex Tindal (The Beaverton), and features Rob Baker (Bonspeil!) Tricia Black (The Sketchersons), Andrew Bushell (Fake Cops), Nigel Downer (Second City Mainstage), Nelu Handa (Yas Kween), Sharjil Rasool (Second City TourCo.) with guest monologists Sarah Hagi (Broadly staff writer), Carolyn Taylor (Baroness Von Sketch Show) and more.
Triplespeak
9:30PM | Fridays | March 17 to April 14
Preview: Friday, March 17
Opening: Friday, March 24
Students/Arts Workers $10 | Adults $15
online or in person at the box office
Bad Dog Comedy Theatre
875 Bloor St. W
2017-03-02
Toronto: Bad Dog Theatre presents two new improv shows for spring