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STAMPED BRINGS A FULL CAST OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS ALL FOLDED UP INTO ONE TINY LITTLE ACTRESS TO FRINGE

“This show is terrific – funny, poignant, original.”
– Alice Eve Cohen; playwright, solo theatre artist, and memoirist. Writer of WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer, and Salon’s Best Books of the Year.

Stamped is a solo show based on a true story about a boy with Autism and his attention-hungry sister.  Supported by a cast of crazy characters, all played by Sarah Magni, Stamped is about how others label us and how we define ourselves.

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(Grandma died at the potluck, but the meatballs were just delicious!)

A (VERY) dark comedy
featuring Peter Spence as THE STORYTELLER

Siblings decide to hold a potluck in order to murder their grandmother, who was asleep in the backseat of the car their parents crashed in. Unfortunately, their pompous half-brother is also attending, and killing Ethyl becomes more difficult than they had expected.

See how Ethyl dies in this dark comedy about storytelling, triviality, and organized dining events.

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21 Days is an original Canadian musical set to debut at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Synopsis
Julie will only ever live 21 days that are truly extraordinary. Things get complicated when Ben offers her a chance at true love. On the strictest of all time schedules, Julie must choose whether to truly live or merely stay alive before her days are up. In this fantastical original musical, follow Julie as she learns about love, time, and the timing of love.

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THE DINNER
Sponsored by TD Canada Trust under Toronto Fringe’s inaugural Culturally Diverse Artists Project

Written by Jason Murray, Directed by Jordan Merkur
Production Mentorship by Sky Gilbert, Dramaturgy by Edward Roy
Produced by Upstage Productions, Executive Produced by Derrick Chua
Starring: Rick Jon Egan, Kirstin Hinton, Jason Jazrawy, Jeff Madden,
Farah Merani, Scott Stephenson, Lisa Waines, Dale Yim

Toronto, Ontario… Upstage Productions is thrilled to announce its production of The Dinner at the Toronto Fringe Festival, opening Wednesday, July 4 at 8:15 pm at Factory Theatre Mainspace, 125 Bathurst Street, Toronto (full schedule below). The Fringe runs July 4 to July 15, 2012.

Lance and Grace host their annual Thanksgiving dinner party for old friends. New guests to this year’s occasion change the entire affair. Deep-rooted tensions among old friends, tensions unspoken for well over a decade, are unearthed. With eight friends feuding, or not allowing the next person to speak, this once tight-knit group lose their respective appetites for each other… and in some cases, for themselves.

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Amberstone Productions
In association with the Toronto Fringe Festival

Everything I Never Knew I Wanted
Tarragon Extra Space Theatre
July 4th to 15th, 2012

Debuting at the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival, Everything I Never Knew I Wanted is an autobiographical one-woman show written and performed by Stacey Bernstein, a Toronto-based television producer. Everything I Never Knew I Wanted takes a humorous and poignant look at one woman’s journey to find her place in the world.

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