Quality Slippers Productions Proudly Presents:

Urge For Going:
A multidisciplinary puppet play inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – In Joni Mitchell’s own hometown, we meet Carey Anderson a thirteen year old girl with long hair and a big smile. She never leaves home without her ukulele, and while she doesn’t have many friends is never lonely. Carey has a wild runaway imagination – her best friend is a fox, and dreams of moving to Toronto to be a busker, and later to California to follow in her idols footsteps. Conceptually this piece explores the nature of being an artist that is inspired by a place that often one must leave in order to succeed. As Canadians, why do we so often have to run away from the places we treasure, that inspire us most?

Urge For Going aims to transcend the boundaries of traditional theatre by incorporating projected animation, original songs, puppetry, and image based sequences to create live music videos. This piece is intended for an audience of all ages – from those who grew up listening to Mitchell on the radio, to younger audiences discovering the magic of this music for the first time. Developed with the assistance of a creation grant from The Canada Council for the Arts, the play is a wonderland / down-the-rabbit-hole tale for modern times.

Thursday, July 4, 2013 – 6:30pm

Saturday, July 6, 2013 – 1:45pm

Monday, July 8, 2013 – 4:30pm

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – 9:15pm

Thursday, July 11, 2013 – 4:00pm

Friday, July 12, 2013 – 5:15pm

Sunday, July 14, 2013 – 1:45pm

“This show is worth seeing for the incredible, magical design alone.”
Bloody Underrated (Blog), June 19, 2013

“This is a story of trying to grow up too fast that hits the right notes.”
Chris Zacchia, Forget The Box, June 20, 2013

“Go with Carey ‘into the blue’ and see what you can stir up to make your own dreams come true, right here.”
Janis Kirshner, Charlebois Post Canada, June 19, 2013

“Mitchell fans won’t want to miss this poignant mix of music, visual art, puppetry (a friendly fox) and storytelling.”
Pat Donnelly, Montreal Gazette, June 21, 2013

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From press release:

FULCRUM THEATRE announces Here, an original multi-media dance theatre piece.

Some of the girls say Emily threw herself in front of a bus. And some of them say she did it for attention. Either way, she’s never going to dance again. Here combines multimedia and dance elements to tell the story of a dancer who shreds a major ligament in her knee, forcing her to cope with a world where her dreams will never be realized. Surprisingly, it’s a comedy.Here is the third original piece by writer/director Aaron Jan produced by Hamilton youth company Fulcrum Theatre. Fulcrum was formed in May 2011 by five undergraduates who felt seperate from the theatre scene in Hamilton. Together, they pooled what little money they had, rented a venue and began rehearsing their very first show. This is Fulcrum’s third year of production and Here is their first production outside of Hamilton.

Here features performers Jacqueline Byers, Erica Charles, Jessie Cox, Farhang Ghajar and Greg Solomon, and is directed and written by Aaron Jan. Last year, Aaron participated in the Paprika Festival at Tarragon Theatrewith Drafts, a play that Fulcrum remounted at the Hamilton Fringe Festival, winning the Best of Fringe. Past productions by this company have had cast members as young as fifteen, and the creative
team as always been twenty-five and under. For more information, visit fulcrumtheatre.wordpress.com!

Here will be here soon. Don’t miss your chance to see some of Hamilton’s most ambitious young artists.

FULCRUM THEATRE
in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
Here
written and directed by Aaron Jan
dramaturged by Lucy Powis
choreography by Cassandra Bowerman
featuring Jacqueline Byers, Erica Charles, Jessie Cox, Farhang Ghajar & Greg Solomon
with original compositions by Spencer Creaghan and Jake Butineau
stage managed by Ndola Hutton & Logan Cracknell

Opens JULY 3rd and runs to JULY 14th
Randolph Theatre – 736 Bathurst. St.

Performances:
July 3, 6:30pm July 9, 1:00pm,
July 5, 3:00pm July 11, 5:15pm
July 7, 1:15pm July 14, 7:00pm
July 8, 8:15pm

Here is approximately 90 minutes long and contains mature language and subject matter. Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.

Tickets:
At-the-door tickets: $10
At-the-door tickets are available at the Randolph Theatre starting one hour prior to show time – cash sales only.
Advance tickets: $11
50% oftickets are available for sale in advance.
Advance tickets go on sale June 17th, 2013.
Purchase online: fringetoronto.com.
By Phone: 416-966-1062, ext 1.
In Person: During the Festival Box Office in the parking lot behind Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor St W)

From press release:

The Spur-Of-The-Moment Shakespeare Collective brings an interactive showcase of the Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program to the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival Shed Show. Patrons become patients with this twisted taste of the project’s one-on-one patient visitations.

The process is led this year by an all-star cast of collaborative and classical actors and directors alike, including FringeKids! regular, Michael Man, Shakespeare-On-The-Subway’s Victoria Urquhart, and Urban Bard’s Scott Moyle and Adrianna Prosser.

Come and get diagnosed by one of our doctors and fill your prescription. CAUTION: Shakespeare M.D. accepts no responsibility for misdiagnosis, as “Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven.”

Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Treatments (shows) last 10 minutes.
Honest Ed’s Alley, 581 Bloor Street West

Performance Times

Wednesday July 3rd, 6:30PM-8:15PM
Thursday July 4th, 6:30PM-8:15PM
Friday July 5th, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Saturday July 6th, 8:30PM-10:15PM
Monday July 8th, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Tuesday July 9th, 8:30PM-10:15PM
Wednesday July 10th, 8:30PM-10:15PM
Thursday July 11th, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Friday July 12th, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Sunday July 14th, 8:30PM-10:15PM

All proceeds go towards the Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program for 2013.