Fringe Festival

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pomme is french for apple – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

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POMME COMES TO THE FRINGE: GET A LIKKLE TASTE

pomme is french for apple, a new play written, produced and performed by Liza Paul and Bahia Watson, explores the lives of modern women and their most intimate, embarrassing and empowering moments.

Following a sold-out series at Cinecycle last year and after closing to a standing-room-only crowd at the Tranzac in early 2012, pomme is french for apple returns to the stage at Theatre Passe Muraille as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival July 6-14, 2012.

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Crashland – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

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 “You can’t hoover a 757 from your living room carpet”
-Crashland 

Crashland is a show about four people and a plane. The plane crashed – they died. The end … or so they thought.

Upon asking for forgiveness, Albert, Lil, Eli, and Marie quickly realize there is more to moving on than what they had imagined. Fueled by their desire to find peace, they must explore their memories to move forward and discover the “what’s left” after death – while navigating the irony of being flattened and flambéed by a 126 tonne airplane.

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MAHMOUD – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

Pandemic Theatre is Proud to Announce the Remount of its One-Woman Smash Hit

M A H M O U D

In Association with the 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival

Meet MAHMOUD..

From Engineer in Tehran, to Taxi Driver in Toronto.

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“Dazzlingly Good! A Tour De Force Performance.”
-Woody Harrelson

“Refreshingly Honest… Unabashed and irreverent.”
-Shahrvand Newspaper

“A telling picture of immigrant experience.”
-Toronto Sun

“Grammy has incredible talent and charisma as a performer.”
-Mooney On Theatre

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The Wakowski Bros. – A Canadian Vaudeville – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

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AIM FOR THE TANGENT THEATRE
&    The Toronto Fringe present…

THE WAKOWSKI BROS. – A CANADIAN VAUDEVILLE
Original Canadian Musical Unites New Voice with All-Star Cast

June 5th, 2012. Toronto ON.   Ladies and gentlemen, and those of you from Quebec…
Aim for the Tangent Theatre is thrilled to announce the Toronto debut of a new tragicomic, Vaudevillian musical: The Wakowski Bros. – A Canadian Vaudeville.

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Headshots and Healing Potions – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release

Monkeyman Productions and the Toronto Fringe Festival proudly present

HEADSHOTS AND HEALING POTIONS

Toronto’s geekiest theatre company has got game, and they’re gonna prove it at the Fringe Festival! As a part of the Fringe’s new AlleyPlays program, Monkeyman Productions is bringing a show to perhaps the smallest possible venue – an 8’ by 8’ shed – to present a series of short plays exploring the lives of video game fanatics. From arcade to console to MMORPG, from Zork to Mass Effect 3, we’ll explore a wide range of gamer culture in a space so intimate, it’ll be like you’re watching over our shoulders as we shoot for a new high score.

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