Tag Archives: Toronto-based indie theatre

Saturday, October 29, 2011

In The Pines

Murder mystery tour: A dark tale haunts the historic Campbell House Museum
Presented by Yabu No Naka Theatre Co-op/Red One Theatre Collective
Based on Yabu No Naka by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Directed by Brenhan McKibben and Benjamin Blais

Toronto’s Campbell House Museum was built by the Upper Canada Chief of Justice Sir William Campbell in 1822. The Georgian-style mansion is the [...]

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show

Eric Woolfe is fantastically fiendish in this spellbinding solo show
Presented by Eldritch Theatre
Created by Eric Woolfe
Directed by Christine Brubaker

Eric Woolfe as Doc Wuthergloom in Eldrtich Theatre’s Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show. Photo by Dawn Weaver.

Got ghosts? Look no further than Doctor Pretorius Wutherglom. The 142 year-old travelling exorcist is setting up shop in Toronto, just [...]

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Sex, Religion & Other Hang-Ups

Praise James Gangl: the patron saint of sinful comedy

Written and performed by James Gangl
Directed by Chris Gibbs

James Gangl prays for sex. Photo by Kevin Thom.

If James Gangl didn’t have a girlfriend before Sex, Religion & Other Hang-Ups, he must be getting offers now. What woman can resist a man who’s sweet, sensitive, funny and horny [...]

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Ugly One

Beauty is only skin deep in Mayenburg’s cutting satire

Presented by Theatre Smash
Written by Marius von Mayenburg
Directed by Ashlie Corcoran

Naomi Wright, Hardee T. Lineham and David Jansen (lying down) in a scene from The Ugly One. Photo by James Heaslip.

The link between beauty and success is hard to ignore, but what if you were told your [...]

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Underpants

Coffeehouse Theatre makes its Toronto debut with a cheeky Steve Martin comedy
Written by Carl Sternheim
Adapted by Steve Martin
Directed by Evan Harkai

Coffeehouse Theatre was created in 2009 by Montreal-based actor/director Evan Harkai. Past productions include: The Importance of Being Earnest and The Underpants: A Play in 72 Hours. Recently, the emerging company has branched out to [...]

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: Little Crickets

Presented by Foundry Theatre
Written by Douglas Campbell
Directed by Byron Laviolette

Nicole St. Martin and Shaina Silver-Baird. Photo by Diane Misaljevic.

Douglas Campbell’s Little Crickets takes place in 1990s Paris, where two teenage Romanian sisters (played by Nicole St. Martin and Shaina Silver-Baird) have fled to escape the revolution. With no plans, but big dreams for a new life in [...]

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination

Presented by Birdtown and Swanville
Written and directed by Aurora Stewart de Peña and Nika Mistruzzi

Nika Mistruzzi and Aurora Stewart de Peña. Photo by James Di Donato.

Written and directed by Birdtown and Swanville‘s Aurora Stewart de Peña and Nika Mistruzzi, The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination is a game show-style competition between eight of the world’s [...]

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Monday, August 8, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: Elora Gorge

Presented by The Room
Written and directed by Christopher Stanton

(L to R): Carlos González-Vio, Carlos Diaz and Dov Mickelson. Photo by Aviva Armour-Ostroff.

Inspired by the tradition of Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and David Lynch, Elora Gorge is an eerily beautiful and suspenseful head-scratcher written and directed by Christopher Stanton.
The story takes place in the small [...]

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Point No Point: Q&A With Chainsaw Theatre Co-op

Noah Davis, Mylène Dinh-Robic. Photo credit: Benjamin Ayres.

Chainsaw Theatre Co-op is a new theatre company formed by three of Toronto’s leading theatre talent: actor/writer Noah Davis (The Magic Flute, Los Angeles Opera; Children of the Night, Company of Angels); actor/director David Tompa (Red One Theatre Collective’s Tape, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Diving Normal); and actress Mylène Dinh-Robic (CTV’s The Listener).
The company’s [...]

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Marat/Sade

Soup Can Theatre puts on an insanely good show

Written by Peter Weiss
Presented by Soup Can Theatre
Directed by Sarah Thorpe

Top: Allan Michael Brunet, Heather Marie Annis. Bottom: Liam Morris. Photo by Scarlet O’Neill.

How to describe Soup Can Theatre’s production of Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade? The word daring comes to mind. Also, bloody fascinating (and we mean bloody).
Written [...]

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Marat/Sade: Q&A Soup Can Theatre’s Sarah Thorpe

Cast of Soup Can Theatre’s Marat/Sade. Top Back: Scott Moore. Back Row: Katrina Carey, Heather Marie Annis, Andrew Fleming, Tom McGee (hidden), Elijah Fetter, Michael-David Blostein, Felicity Adams-Hannigan, Philip Stonhouse, Kristen Zaza, Glyn Bowerman. Middle: Allan Michael Brunet. Foreground: Liam Morris, Hilary June Hart, Mark Heindel, Kat Letwin. Photo by Scarlet O’Neill

Soup Can Theatre is [...]

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

2011 Toronto Fringe Festival: The Soaps

Presented by The National Theatre of the World

The Soaps Cast. Photo by Sharilyn Johnson.

The Soaps is an ongoing live improvised soap opera performed by Toronto theatre company The National Theatre of the World. Set in the make believe “Shawford,” home to the “Shawford Theatre Festival” the story follows the company as they prepare for their [...]

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