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“I lose weight when I cry!”
THEATRE UNDER PRESSURE
Presents
WEIGHT LOSS WORLD
Written and Directed by Chris Michael Burns
Sally Pitt is an artist. Tommy Wright is a banker. Marcia McAllister is a teacher. Tim Lewis is a cable repairman. All have weight issues that have spiralled out of control. They turn to Daisy, the director ofWeight Loss World, whose techniques are unconventional at best. Daisy makes each of her patients sign a contract that stipulates they cannot leave until they have reached their stated goal weights (which are always dangerously low). Once inside, everybody wants to return to their lives as soon and as thin as possible, so the pressure is on and the clock is ticking.
The world of COME TUMBLING DOWN is a strange world of spy vs. spy where things are not quite as they seem.
Jack and Jill go out on a blind date, which goes awkwardly, even disastrously, well! They have a nice dinner, some uncomfortable “first date” conversation, an even more awkward first kiss…and then a dark stranger pulls a knife on Jack. Who is this dark stranger? How does Jill know her? Are Jill’s feelings for Jack real? As Jack gets closer to Jill, he finds himself tumbling into a much more complex world than first meets the eye and he has to either step up and fulfill his purpose or suffer the consequences of inaction. Continue reading Come Tumbling Down: Toronto 2010 Fringe Preview→
Friendship. Desire. Jealousy. Forbidden Love. Loss. Finding one’s place in the World. Considered to be Virginia Woolf’s most personal novel, The Waves is adapted for the stage by Toronto actor/director Brenley Charkow, and will make its world-premiere at the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival.
“I wanted to create a production that would invoke the imagination and provoke the mind. Woolf’s beautifully dark novel was the perfect canvas for us to play in.”, says Charkow, “Her story is equally as poignant today as it was when it was originally written.” Continue reading The Waves:Toronto 2010 Fringe Preview→
Toronto, ON – May 18, 2010. A popular format in both film and television, the mockumentary has never successfully made the leap to the stage until now. From the people who watched “Waiting for Guffman” and “The Office” – and thought they were both pretty funny – comes a comedy that’ll make you wish you never found out what goes on behind the scenes of an independent film. The Making Of is a mockumentary that follows an inept film crew making a misguided documentary about the “untold plight of Toronto’s poor” and who completely miss the point.
In the Room Productions
Presents
Georgia & Leona
Written by Misha Bower and Directed by Lara Mrkoci
Georgia & Leona, the new play from In the Room Productions, is about two women who are strangers with a lot in common – especially tonight, as both return home from a bizarre and unexpected reunion with the past.
Georgia comes home after catching up with her friend Donna, a well-known wild card who surprises Georgia with news of her recent marriage. Leona comes home from a night with Barry, who arrives with a mysterious bundle of letters written by their lifelong friend, Carl “The Leveller” Levalier, who died two years ago to the day. Both women confront their pasts and their relationships with troubled friends; and each woman in her own way, takes on the strange and undeniable sense that because of tonight’s events, everything in her life is about to change. Continue reading Presents Georgia & Leona: Toronto 2010 Fringe Preview→
