If you can imagine anything more perfectly frothy, more utterly camp, than a Madonna sing-and-dance-along retelling of her infamous 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare then I would like to know about it. Until then, I will be crowning Salvatore Antonio and Adamo Ruggiero’s royal (as in: queeny) homage to Madonna in Truth/Dare: A Satire (With Dance) at Buddies In Bad Times as the actual, non-euphemistic tits of this Pride season.
From press release:
A musical. The day is now. 4:03 PM.
3 people. Bill, Elaine and Ted. Elaine married Bill and they now have a grown child.
Or not.
Elaine married Ted and Ted lost his friendship to Bill.
Or not.
Or Bill and Ted stayed friends and both lost Elaine.
Surely there’s one reality where all three managed to live happily ever after? Continue reading It’s Always You – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release
From press release:
From press release:
Secretly Illiterate Theatre is bringing its unscripted fantasy epic Tomes to the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival. Every night, seven energetic improvisers will perform a live stage adaptation of a paperback fantasy novel… without ever reading it. Tomes runs from July 5 to 14 at St. Vladimir’s Theatre. Continue reading Tomes – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release
From press release:
Everything you will hear is true: in late 19th century Paris, Augustine, Blanche, and Geneviève are the most famous patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière insane asylum for women. They are his personal lab rats and performance artists, models and test subjects, as he conducts his experiments in “hysteria,” that dark recess of psychiatric medicine. Through the nascent technologies of photography, and the black arts of hypnotism and psychopharmacology, Charcot turns them from troubled women into Hysterics, celebrities of the Belle Epoque: Augustine the Photogenic, whose pictures adorn Charcot’s publications; Blanche, “The Queen of Hysterics,” star performer in his public lectures; and Geneviève la Pucelle, who talks to God and believes she is possessed by demons – tonight they perform for their audience an hysterical revue, a cabaret, en Comédie en vaudeville, demonstrating the history and pathology of hysteria – but something seems to be going wrong. As lines are dropped and cues missed, the show starts to crumble, and the odyssey takes turn for the strange… Continue reading The Hystericon – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release