Please Turn On Your Cell Phones Dina: The Burlapped Crusader is about to take the stage!
We’ve all heard it – that trite announcement at the beginning of a show, a reminder to patrons to please turn off their phones and unwrap those cough candies. Well, not this summer, Toronto! It’s time for a new kind of theatre, a new kind of audience, a new kind of… superhero?
This year, The Toronto Fringe Festival welcomes Dina: the Burlapped Crusader, a new superhero for a new time. She not only wants her audience to leave their cell phones on, but set them to ring. LOUDLY! And to text her during the show – her number is in the program. And she has a twitter feed. And a facebook profile. And a tumbler account. Why? She is desperate to make a connection, and she wants to connect with YOU. Continue reading Dina: The Burlapped Crusader – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
Singing Strong in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents the play Mum And The Big C
Ripley is torn between taking care of her mum and killing her. Mum and the Big C is a romantic
comedy about a no-strings attached, playgirl lesbian relegated back to the sedentary burbs to
nurse her mom who’s hell-bent on marrying her off, and finds herself fenced in with lies when
she unwittingly shags her mother’s oncologist. Continue reading Mum And The Big C – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
A Canadian Theatre icon working Like A Dog
“How’s a man supposed to accomplish anything without a dog?”
Your Good Friends are proud to present a Canadian theatre legend in his first stage appearance in almost a decade. Peter C. Wylde, beloved teacher and veteran of the Bristol Old Vic and the Stratford Festival in the days under the tent, brings his unrivalled presence and personality to the world premiere of this eccentric new play by Matthew Gorman (Cart/Horse Theatre).
When her local Toronto library is slated to be closed, ten year old TickailiaʻTickʼ Summers leads her friends in a revolution!
Written by Award Winning ʻSIAʼ playwright Matthew Mackenzie, directed by Jajube Mandiela (8-season ʻDegrassiʼstar; title character in ʻSIAʼ)and starring Jessica Moss (ʻWas Springʼby Daniel MacIvor; NextStage hitʻModern Loveʼ; Necessary Angelʼs ʻTout Comme Elleʼ).
Zocalo Toronto presents SAMKON AND FRANCIS GO SWIMMING
A new comedy written and directed by Vladimir Jon Cubrt
Starring Shawn Lawrence, Emmanuel Kabongo and Birgitte Solem
Two delivery guys are in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing to rub the wrong woman the wrong way. Set in the heart of Little Italy – on Henderson Avenue to be exact – this new side-splitting comedy, about an unlikely friendship that defies age and cultural barriers, is a celebration of the innocent-at-heart.
This is the third original play written by actor, and founder of Zocalo Toronto, Vladimir Jon Cubrt. The others, The Weeping Salsa and Flin Flonning (in which Vlad starred), received independent productions at, respectively, The Theatre Centre (2009) and The Diesel Playhouse (2007). Vladimir’s recent screen credits include Nikita, Against The Wall and King. Continue reading Samkon and Francis Go Swimming – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
Please Turn On Your Cell Phones