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RAGE SWEATER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS in association with the TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL

MONICA VS. THE INTERNET: TALES OF A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR

One Filipina. Thousands of racist internet trolls. One deep
dive into the comment section.

This is Monica vs. The Internet.

“[Monica Ogden] is the worst looking asian I ever saw. Filipinas are supposed to look hot, not feminist.” – Troll

From award winning storyteller and accidental comedian Monica Ogden comes a show that sheds light on activism in the age of the internet, mixed-race identity, and why white feminism is like Lays chips.

Pick of the Fringe WINNER – Bravest Show Victoria Fringe Festival 2017

“ SHARP, INCISIVE, FUNNY, WELL-CONSTRUCTED, AND DEVASTATING ” – Janis La Couvée

An all new version of the sellout show Monica vs. The Internet: Tales of a Social Justice Warrior from KP Thomas ( 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Victoria, 2015 Youth Slam Champion, Victoria African & Caribbean Cultural Society Recognition Award Recipient ) and Monica Ogden (Guest Panelist at Emerald City Comic Con , Geek Girl Con , Outstanding Ensemble Pick of the Fringe WINNER – Victoria Fringe Festival 2016).

From Lilang’s immigration (Grandma in Illocano), her mother’s rise to stardom as Miss Kapuskasing, to navigating racist internet comments as a feminist YouTuber, Monica finds herself in the reality of intergenerational trauma, and coming to terms with how it affects the lives of the Filipina women who raised her. Monica vs. The Internet is a multi-media storytelling/stand-up show that will leave you in tears, both the laughy kind and the heart ones.

After winning the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals lottery, Rage Sweater Theatre Productions, a company of artists who belong to queer, Black, Filipinx, non-binary, disabled, communities of colour, are embarking on a six city tour to share and lift up underrepresented voices. #FringeofColour #FilipinxFringe

RAGE SWEATER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS in association with the TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL

MONICA VS. THE INTERNET: TALES OF A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR

Directed by KP Productions
Written and Performed by Monica Ogden
Tarragon Theatre Solo Room (30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, Canada)
Wed July 3, 6:30pm, Fri July 5, 10:00pm, Sat July 6, 3:15pm, Sun July 7, 6:45pm, Tues July 9, 5:00pm, Thurs July 11, 8:00pm, Fri July 12, 5:15pm, Sat July 13, 1:30pm

No latecomer seating
Purchase tickets online: fringetoronto.com
By Phone: 416-966-1062
In Person: During the festival at POSTSCRIPT, the patio at the Toronto Fringe. Located in the Hockey
Rink at 275 Bathurst Street (Dundas + Bathurst).

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Fourth Gorgon Theatre Presents…
From the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses
adapted & directed by Jocelyn Adema

MOLLY BLOOM

“Genius.” “Bawdy.” “Nothing but praise.” – Mooney on Theatre

Molly Bloom is an original adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses’ final chapter. Four actors collectively play the consciousness of Molly Bloom as she lies awake in bed in this sensual and shocking exploration of one woman’s psyche.

The ensemble fell in love with this rich novel in a text analysis class at George Brown Theatre School with Peter Wylde in 2014, which prompted a staged reading in 2015, a workshop production in 2016, an independently produced production at Majalis Art Garden in 2018, bringing us to this fully realized production at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2019 complete with full design!

“Molly Bloom is the culmination of five years work – and it shows with the easy intimacy that they have with each other.” – Drew Rowsome. “Their comfort with the role grants them fluidity on stage, like a quartet of electrical charges bouncing from synapse to
synapse.” – Mooney on Theatre.

“There’s momentum in this young group of creators…this maiden voyage of Pippi: The Strongest Girl in the World proves that this crew has a solid course set out in front of them — they’re just going to need a bigger boat.” – Toronto Star 2017

“Sheer creative brillance”(You Know I Know) – Mooney On
Theatre Staff picks- Toronto Fringe 2015

Come see what another year of development has done for this already amazing piece!

HELEN GARDINER PHELAN PLAYHOUSE
79 GEORGE ST, TORONTO, ON

60 MIN

D A T E S
JULY 3 8PM
JULY 5 10PM
JULY 7 8:15PM
JULY 9 4:30PM
JULY 10 6:30
JULY 12 10:30PM
JULY 13 8:30PM

@fourth.gorgon #mollybloomiscoming
www.facebook.com/fourthgorgontheatre/

DIRECTOR & ADAPTOR
Jocelyn Adema is a prairie-raised theatre creator. As
part of the Dora award winning ensemble of Bad Hats’ Peter Pan,
she is an actor/director/writer. Directing credits: Fourth Gorgon
Theatre’s Pippi: The Strongest Girl in the World, and The Newmarket Play Festival.

CAST
Annie Tuma: Pippi(co-writer/actor), Boeing Boeing(Magnus) Reanne Spitzer: Peter Pan(Soulpepper), Dry Land (cue6) Jenna-Lee Hyde: Drowning Girls (Globe Theatre), Our Town(Theatre Rusticle)
Lena Maripuu: Peter Pan(Soulpepper), Pippi(co-writer/actor)

www.fourthgorgontheatre.com

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Exciting new sketch comedy starring Geri Hall Toronto Fringe, Robert Gill Theatre.

MIDDLE RAGED is a hilarious sketch show with Geri Hall and Gary Pearson, that explores that time of life when you’re running out of time! Couples dealing with the madness of childrearing, empty nests, aging parents, financial stresses…and even trying “Outlander” role play to spice up the bedroom!

Geri Hallis is best known for 5 seasons as a regular on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where she was once arrested by the RCMP, for asking Stephen Harper a question. She has also appeared in numerous feature films like Shall We Dance and Hairspray and is a Gemini Award winner.

Gary Pearson is best known as a writer for such shows as MadTV, 22 Minutes, Corner Gas, JFL All Access and Sunnyside, which he co-created. Gary has won the Writer’s Guild Award, and the Canadian Screen Award, as well as being nominated for multiple Canadian Screen and Gemini Awards.

Both Geri and Gary were on The Second City Toronto main stage and have extensive backgrounds in improv and sketch comedy. The duo recently appeared at Toronto’s SoCap, had a sold out run of 4 performances at the Oakville Centre will be appearing at the Edmonton Fringe in August

MIDDLE RAGED– when the bloom is off the rose, but the thorns are sharper than ever!

“Awesome show.”
–Paul Chato, The Frantics.

“We had a blast. Geri and Gary are funny and charming and the show was terrific.”
-Kathryn Greenwood, Women Fully Clothed

“The sketches became increasingly hilarious and it soon became apparent that Hall and Pearson are masters of what they do. Playing off each other with electric energy, they brought an undeniable charisma to every sketch they performed.”
– Extra Mile

TICKETS- 416-966-1062, Fringetoronto.com

July 3, 10 PM, July 5, 2:15 PM, July 7, 6:15  PM, July 9, 5:00 PM, July 11 6:45 PM, July 12 8:00 PM, July 13, 2:15 PM

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BENNY THE BULLET PRODUCTIONS

in association with THE TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL presents

MICE AT CENTRE ICE

A modern day Canadian hockey “tail” of small mice with big hearts.

Together, we win!

TORONTO – Benny the Bullet Productions presents Mice at Centre Ice by Kerri Salata in The Toronto Fringe Festival KidsFest, July 3^rd-July 13^th at the George Ignatieff Theatre.

MICE AT CENTRE ICE is a hilarious, heartwarming adaption of the best-selling 1980s children’s novel (and cartoon) and a show for hockey-lovers of all ages. Follow Benny the Bullet, a plucky mouse and fellow Mouse Hockey Leaguers as they try and win back the Cheddar Cup from the dreaded Rink Rats. What dangers await them? And can any of them be worse than the steel blades of the Zamboni machine?

In her children’s novel, Mice at Centre Ice, Estelle Salata named the lead character Benny the Bullet after her husband Benny Salata. Now, Estelle’s granddaughter, Kerri Salata, has named the company she has formed to produce her adaptation of Mice at Centre Ice after him too. Estelle always taught Kerri that women can do and be anything and led by example as a successful author and mother of four. In adapting this story, Kerri, a lawyer, mother, and hockey player herself, has taken her grandmother’s guidance to heart and modernized the story so that many of the characters, including Benny the Bullet, are portrayed by women.

This world premiere production of Mice at Centre Ice is directed by Llana Nakonechny, and stars Thea-award winning children’s theatre performer, Janice Peters Gibson, (The Company Theatre, producer Jerusalem), as well as members of the Lactors’ Studio (Watching Seana McKenna Watch Paint Dry (Fringe 2014) and In Gods We Trust (Fringe 2016)).   

All proceeds going to Lawyers Feed the Hungry http://www.lawyersfeedthehungry.ca/toronto.html

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IT GIRLS

The Biggest Girl Group
Reunion of the Year

Toronto Fringe Festival
The Factory Theatre – MAINSPACE

125 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON

Running time: 55 Minutes

It Girls is a hilarious new pop musical about a girl group who reunite fifteen years after a dramatic split. Featuring some of Toronto’s funniest sketch and improv comedians, this campy Fringe comedy has it all – fame, friendship, forbidden romance, girl power, and Showgirls-esque sabotage! Best of all, It Girls features original comedy pop songs that will be stuck in your head for waaay too long.

Directed by Second City alum and She The People star Ashley Comeau, and featuring an infectious pop soundtrack (written by actor/writer Emily Richardson and Ayaka Kinugawa) that skewers celebrity, feminism, dating, partying, and the complexities of female friendship, It Girls is bold, hilarious fun.

It Girls is what would happen if Josie and the Pussycats, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Rupaul’s Drag Race had a baby. Don’t you wanna meet that baby?!

SHOW TIMES

July 4th – 10:15pm

July 6th – 4:45pm,
July 7th – 1:00pm,

July 9th – 7:15pm,
July 10th – 6:15pm

July 12th – 2:15pm,
July 13th – 12:30pm