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Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Wednesday, July 3rd

It’s that exciting time of year again… The 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival is here! As you know from previous years we like to spread the love during Fringe and invite our readers to participate in contests for a pair of FREE Fringe tickets to different shows every day of the festival. So enter a contest and Fringe for Free!  Here are the FIVE shows that are we are giving away tickets for on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013.

The shows are: 

Charming Monsters – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30pm show at Factory Mainspace (Venue 12) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Charming Monsters contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.

The Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30pm show at the  George Ignatieff Theatre (Venue 6) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Neurotic Homos contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.

Just Lift Your Feet – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:30pm show at the Robert Gill Theatre (Venue 9) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Just Lift Your Feet contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.

It’s Always You – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 10:00pm show at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (Venue 8) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “It’s Always You contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.

Threads – To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets to the 8:15pm show at the Solo Room at Tarragon Theatre (Venue 3) please send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Threads contest” by 7pm on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.

See below for details on each show, how the contest works: Continue reading Fringe for Free! Toronto Fringe ticket giveaways for shows playing on Wednesday, July 3rd →

It’s Always You – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

From press release:

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A musical. The day is now. 4:03 PM.

3 people. Bill, Elaine and Ted. Elaine married Bill and they now have a grown child.
Or not.
Elaine married Ted and Ted lost his friendship to Bill.
Or not.
Or Bill and Ted stayed friends and both lost Elaine.

 Surely there’s one reality where all three managed to live happily ever after? Continue reading It’s Always You – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release →

Battle of the Bastards – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

From press release:

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STRAP ON YOUR CODPIECE for the Battle of the Bastards

Fresh from the New Zealand International Comedy Festival comes a grisly and raucously funny twist on a Shakespearean classic. Christchurch carnie David Ladderman is here to harness the power of sword fights, Elizabethan cussing, and a squishy pumpkin.
You Rung? Productions was formed amidst the rubble of the Christchurch earthquakes. The theatres had fallen down and the city was in chaos when producer Lizzie Tollemache and writer David Ladderman met, rehearsing post-apocalyptic Shakespeare on the ruins of Christchurch’s iconic Volcano Bar. Two Shakespeare geeks combined to turn tragedy into comedy- King Lear became Battle of the Bastards. Continue reading Battle of the Bastards – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release →

The Hystericon – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

From press release:

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Everything you will hear is true: in late 19th century Paris, Augustine, Blanche, and Geneviève are the most famous patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière insane asylum for women. They are his personal lab rats and performance artists, models and test subjects, as he conducts his experiments in “hysteria,” that dark recess of psychiatric medicine. Through the nascent technologies of photography, and the black arts of hypnotism and psychopharmacology, Charcot turns them from troubled women into Hysterics, celebrities of the Belle Epoque:  Augustine the Photogenic, whose pictures adorn Charcot’s publications; Blanche, “The Queen of Hysterics,” star performer in his public lectures; and Geneviève la Pucelle, who talks to God and believes she is possessed by demons – tonight they perform for their audience an hysterical revue, a cabaret, en Comédie en vaudeville, demonstrating the history and pathology of hysteria – but something seems to be going wrong. As lines are dropped and cues missed, the show starts to crumble, and the odyssey takes  turn for the strange… Continue reading The Hystericon – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release →