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From press release
Soulo Theatre presents
Memento Mori
by Tracey Erin Smith
a BYOV performance at The Toronto Fringe Festival
from June 30th to July 12th
Written and Performed by Tracey Erin Smith (two-time winner of both NYC’s Frigid Festival’s Audience Choice Award and Best of Toronto Fringe.)
Directed by Anita La Selva (Best Director – My Theatre Choice Awards)
Music by Payadora Tango Ensemble Continue reading Memento Mori – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
From press release
When an ambitious project to present the greatest battles in world history as a spectacular musical falls apart, one man is left to pick up the pieces and soldier on. Mark Shyzer returns to the Toronto Fringe with a hilarious one‐man show‐within‐a‐ show: one man left to play every part and every instrument, simultaneously acting out world and personal history. Continue reading Great Battles in History – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
From press release
little red theatre presents
BUSYNESS
AT THE TORONTO FRINGE 2014
FRINGE KIDS @
Palmerston Library Theatre
560 Palmerston Ave (Bathurst and Bloor)
In a play without words about a fairy, technology, a businessman and a tree, little red theatre makes miracles with the simplest of tools and using the coolest of sets. In a Charlie Chaplinesque comedy mash up, creatures of nature take on creatures of the city. A funny dance battle ensues with a dragon watching over the end game!
Suitable for Ages 4 – 12 Continue reading BUSYNESS – Toronto Fringe 2014 Press Release
Excerpted from Press Release:
The three young recessionistas of Viragon Capital Group and their thoroughly male, thoroughly unpaid intern have rented an Annex house for the night to carry out their primary business venture: selling used “panties” online.
By sunrise all four will undo each other in very unprofitable bouts of desperation in this darkly funny drama about gender, privilege, and dangerous optimism in the wake of the financial crisis.
SURPLUS-VALUE THEATRE is a radically-inclined company that produces colloquial and dark-comedic plays re: life in 21st-century North America. Founded and inspired by the 2012 student strike in Montreal, they are concurrently working on plays about memes, man-children, unpaid internships, power-suit feminists, and private manias of internet surveillance. They live precariously between Toronto and New York.
Performance Dates
Wednesday, July 2 – 7:00pm
Thursday, July 3 – 7:00pm
Friday, July 4 – 7:00pm
Saturday, July 5 – 7:00pm
Monday, July 7 – 7:00pm
Tuesday, July 8 – 7:00pm
Wednesday, July 9 – 7:00pm
Thursday, July 10 – 7:00pm
Friday, July 11 – 7:00pm
Saturday, July 12 – 7:00pm
Sunday, July 13 – 7:00pm
Venue
106 Albany Ave. (Near Bathurst Station.)
Ticketing
Tickets are $10 (cash-only) at the door, $12 in advance. Advance tickets may be purchased online (visa/amex), or from the Fringe Club box office (cash/visa/amex), located in Honest Ed’s Alley during the festival. Money-saving passes are also available; see website for details.
Be advised that there is absolutely no latecomer seating at Fringe shows.
Excerpted from Press Release