Weight Loss World: Toronto 2010 Fringe Preview

From Press Release

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“I lose weight when I cry!”

THEATRE UNDER PRESSURE
Presents
WEIGHT LOSS WORLD
Written and Directed by Chris Michael Burns

Sally Pitt is an artist. Tommy Wright is a banker. Marcia McAllister is a teacher. Tim Lewis is a cable repairman. All have weight issues that have spiralled out of control. They turn to Daisy, the director ofWeight Loss World, whose techniques are unconventional at best. Daisy makes each of her patients sign a contract that stipulates they cannot leave until they have reached their stated goal weights (which are always dangerously low). Once inside, everybody wants to return to their lives as soon and as thin as possible, so the pressure is on and the clock is ticking.

Set in a last resort, rapid weight loss facility, WEIGHT LOSS WORLD is an outrageous satire about desperate people taking desperate measures. Both scathing and politically incorrect, it forces the audience to choose between laughing and looking inward. Loosely inspired by Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit, playwright and director Chris Michael Burns has created an absurd world in which hell is ones own body.

Starring a hilarious cast and using the quest to be thin as a parable, WEIGHT LOSS WORLD exhibits extreme circumstances to expose the physical and psychological dangers of contemporary vanity and sameness.

WEIGHT LOSS WORLD
Presented by Theatre Under Pressure
As part of

Written and Directed by Chris Michael Burns
Stage Management by Michelle Galuszka
Starring Shealyn Angus, Andrew Aquino, Laurel Brady,
Jennifer Krukowski and Michael David Lorsch
St. Vladimir’s Theatre, 620 Spadina Avenue (South of Harbord)
Thursday, July 1 @ 10:00pm
Saturday, July 3 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, July 4 @ Noon
Monday, July 5 @ 1:15pm
Thursday, July 8 @ 11:00pm
Friday, July 9 @ 2:15pm
Saturday, July 10 @ 5:15pm
All tickets $10.00 at the door, or book in advance by calling the Fringe Hotline at 416.966.1062 or online
at www.fringetoronto.com. Fringe passes are also available after June 5, 2010.