Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Wednesday, July 8th

fringe for free graphicWow, what a heluva first weekend for the Toronto Fringe Festival. Our Mooney on Theatre team has been working overtime over the past few days to bring you reviews of every show in this year’s festival.

We’re obviously excited by the shows on offer for this year’s festival and we hope you are too. To get you a little more excited, how about some free tickets from our daily Fringe for Free contest?

For every day of the festival, we’ll be giving out tickets to 5 shows. Exciting, right? What’s even more exciting is how easy it is to enter – you can enter each of the five contests by sending us an email (more details below).

Remember, you need to enter each contest individually. If we pick your name, you’ve got two tickets heading your way.

Check out the list of the 5 shows playing on Wednesday, July 8th after the jump.

Contest Rules:

To enter, send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com. Please put the show’s title in the subject line, and ensure we have your full name in the body. (We promise that your email address will not be used for any other purpose: it will not be added to any mailing lists, sold to third parties, or anything like that.)

  • Each email counts as a single entry. If you want to enter all 5 contests, you must send 5 emails.
  • Tickets are non-transferable and are only for the date and time indicated below. Tickets may not be exchanged. Please ensure you can attend the performance listed.
  • All entries must be received by 7 PM on the day before the performance. The drawing will be held at 9 PM, and winners will be informed immediately. Winners are required to confirm their attendance by 10 AM on the morning of the performance.
  • Tickets will be held in your name at the venue box office, available 1 hour before the performance. Tickets will only be held until 15 minutes before curtain: any comps left unclaimed at that juncture may be sold.

Today’s Toronto Fringe Festival Contests

Starry Notions – 12:00PM on July 8th (Annex Theatre, 736 Bathurst St)

To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 12:00 PM show on Friday, July 3rd  please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Starry Notions”  by 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Show Details:
Grit, glitter & laughter of cabaret star RYAN G. HINDS (sold-out, Just For Laughs; Artist-in-Residence, Buddies) with live band. Weaving intimate storytelling with Grace Jones tangos, CanCon classics, Disney villains and Kander & Ebb, Hinds builds to a chance meeting on a San Francisco bus that emphasizes the importance of holding ferociously onto your dream

Show times:
July 03 at 08:45 PM
July 04 at 01:45 PM
July 05 at 09:15 PM
July 08 at 12:00 PM
July 09 at 07:30 PM
July 10 at 12:00 PM
July 11 at 05:45 PM

Show length: 60min.

A Man Walks Into A Bar – 12:00 PM on July 8th (Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, 30 Brigman Ave.)

To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 12:00 PM show on Friday, July 3rd  please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Into A Bar”  by 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Show Details:
A man walks into a bar and asks a waitress for a drink. A tense and funny metatheatrical look at gender dynamics.
From Rachel Blair, 2008 New Play Contest winner for Wake (NNNN, ***** Eye Weekly, Best of Fringe) and David Matheson, Artistic Director of Dora-nominated Wordsmyth Theatre and director of [sic] (Best of Fringe) and Bluebeard (Patron’s Pick).

Show times

Wed July 1, 6:30pm
Fri July 3, 1:15pm
Sat July 4, 7pm
Sun July 5, 3:30pm
Mon July 6, 8:30pm
Wed July 8, 12pm
Sat July 11, 5:15pm

Show length: 60min.


Pool (no water) – 5:15 PM on July 8th (Tarragon Theatre Main Space, 30 Bridgman Ave.)

To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 5:15 PM show on Friday, July 3rd  please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Pool (no water)” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Show Details:
“We’re the group. And there’s balance. And you took away the balance. Don’t you understand the most basic natural law? Well, of course you do — understood it and ignored it — on purpose — and killed Sally” – pool (no water) asks what you’d be willing to do to be a great artist.

Show times:

July 2 @ 8:15pm
July 4 @ 1:45pm
July 5 @ 4:45pm
July 7 @ 10:30pm
July 8 @ 5:15pm
July 9 @ 12:00pm
July 11 @ 4:00pm

Show length: 80min.

For Body and Light Presents: Coming and Going – 5:15pm on July 8th (Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst St.)

To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 5:15 PM show on Friday, July 3rd  please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Coming and Going”  by 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Show Details:
A young man sets sail on a research ship headed south. He discovers a wild, meditative, dangerous world—filled with eerie, absorbing, beautiful life. A sensorial journey through ocean tides lit only by the moon. An entrancing balance between movement and words, music and light.

Show times
Friday July 3rd – 13:45
Saturday July 4th – 19:00
Sunday July 5th – 19:00
Wednesday July 8th – 17:15
Thursday July 9th – 15:30
Friday July 10th – 23:00
Saturday July 11th – 14:15

Show length: 60min.

Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth – 1:45pm on July 8th (Factory Theatre MainStage, 125 Bathurst St.)

To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 1:45 PM show on Friday, July 3rd  please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth”  by 7pm on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

Show Details:
Poor sweet Laura sells a lock of hair for a sweet juicy peach. Sweet nectar drips from her lips. Her eyes shine with lust. She must have more! The goblins have caught their next young maiden. Fruit Fruit Mouth Mouth is dark, delectable, and dripping in Goblin fruit juices. A sapphic tale of two sisters.
Come buy, come buy, we promise you’ll leave satisfied!

Show times
July 01 at 10:30 PM
July 04 at 03:30 PM
July 05 at 10:30 PM
July 07 at 03:00 PM
July 08 at 01:45 PM
July 09 at 07:30 PM
July 11 at 09:45 PM

Show length: 60min.