The Final Trick of a Shoddy Magician – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

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“The Final Trick of a Shoddy Magician”

Act 3.6.1 Productions is proud to present our breakout show, “The Final Trick of a Shoddy Magician”! In this show, we treat the audience to a character born out of sketch comedy and perfected using influences from clown and vaudeville style physical theatre. We take you back to Toronto in the 1920’s. Our play within a play follows the comeback show of our hero, The Great Operatini. Watch him attempt his most daring trick and see that his moniker “The Shoddy Magician” is absolutely not an understatement! Continue reading The Final Trick of a Shoddy Magician – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release →

Review: A Behanding in Spokane (Unit 102 Theatre)

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An Excellent, Pitch-Black Comedy At Toronto’s Unit 102

Martin McDonagh‘s one-act play A Behanding in Spokane could easily be a tricky play to pull off. This is a very dense work, a black comedy in McDonough’s style full of subtly interconnecting stories, shifting motivations, and the playwright’s characteristic wordplay–obscene, philosophical, absurd–that needs a team of talented actors with good direction and set design to pull it off.

Happily for Torontonians, Unit 102 Theatre, which is putting on A Behanding in Spokane at their storefront theatre at 376 Dufferin Street just south of Queen Street West, has done just this.

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Adventures of a Professional Corpse – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

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The Adventures of a Professional Corpse
Gone today, here tomorrow
A fresh spin on the wildly popular pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s and 40s, whose contemporary cultural influence ranges from graphic novels, to fashion to slang.
Meet James, a devoted son who quits university to save the family farm. With the help of an exotic elixir that lets him feign death, he quickly learns there’s a good living to be made from dying.  Inside the genre’s world of socialites, wise crackers, shady dames, and gangsters, you’ll go on a ride from 4H club to country club to nightclub. Inspired by the serial from “Weird Tales” written by Napanee Ontario’s own “King of the Pulps”, H. Bedford-Jones.

Charming Monsters – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

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AFTERGLOW THEATRE in association with THE TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL presents:

CHARMING MONSTERS by Aaron Rothermund

Henry is a nuisance in our little town. He came to Claudiaʼs seeking work, and ends up moving in. Lilith wants him to come back home, but will settle for his death. It takes a town to hide a body in this charming new play about the monster in us all.

Afterglow Theatre presents CHARMING MONSTERS through our lens of carefully crafted vision. Original music by Bob Wiseman is sure to delight, and lighting design by Bryan Hall will dazzle. At the helm of this production is Aaron Rothermund with his heart on his sleeve and a fistful of whimsy. Recently Aaron Rothermund directed Into at Berkeley Street theatre, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens for The Tennessee Project, and Facio at Vanier College/York University.

CAST – Kyle Mac of Haven (TV series), Jamie Sampson of Paranormal Witness (TV series), Roselie Wiliamson of Into (New Face Entertainment), Eve Wylden of Woyzeck (Red Light District), Kathleen Goodleaf of We Few They Many (FRINGE), Lea Russellof Sylvia (Alumnae Theatre) and Kevin Rees of Death (Art & Lies productions).

CREW – Katherine Belyea (Stage Manager), Aaron Rothermund (Writer & Director), Bryan Hall (Lighting & Prop Design), Sam Aylsworth (Costume Design), and Bob Wiseman (Sound Design).

SCHEDULE –

Weds, July 3, 2013 10:30pm – 11:30pm Factory Mainspace
Friday, July 5, 2013 5:15pm – 6:15pm Factory Mainspace
Sunday, July 7, 2013 3:00pm – 4:00pm Factory Mainspace
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:45pm – 5:45pm Factory Mainspace
Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:15pm – 10:15pm Factory Mainspace
Friday, July 12, 2013 7:30pm – 8:30pm Factory Mainspace
Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:00pm – 5:00pm Factory Mainspace

“Director Aaron Rothermund effectively stages the play with an unfussy simplicity that allows the audience to focus on the many nuances of the text.” – Wayne Leung

“Rothermund reminds us that the sub-conscious knows much more than we do.”

– S.R. Davis

The Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos – Toronto Fringe 2013 Press Release

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neuroticTHE EFFECTS OF TIME TRAVEL ON NEUROTIC HOMOS
A new comedy about getting older and questionably wiser
 
“If you kill a butterfly in the past, will there be dinosaurs in the future?”
One of the possible Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos
You wake up one day in a chasm of space.  The air is heavy with the smell of time travel.  You are alone….kind of.  You are 15 years old, young and full of idealistic notions of art and your future.  Beside you stands yourself at 25, a self-proclaimed marketing genius that relishes in the perils of modern day cleaning products circa 2003.  You are both there with yourself at 35, sexually charged and unemployed with an iPhone.  Welcome to the Effects of Time Travel on  Neurotic Homos, a sharp witted comedy about personal identity and how it evolves with age.