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  • #198 – Dauntless City Theatre: All's Well That Ends Well
    Episode Notes

    After last summer’s NNNN Much Ado About Nothing, Dauntless City Theatre returns to Berczy Park to delight city audiences with All’s Well That Ends Well, starring Chanakya Mukherjee (The Men in White, Much Ado About Nothing) and Liz Der (Crave) as the unlikely lovers Bertram and Helena.

    Ranging over walks, hills, gardens, and the famous dog fountain, All’s Well is an intriguing societal and political comedy. One of Shakespeare’s “problem plays”, All’s Well tackles passionate desire, consent, trickery, and toxic masculinity. This play asks: how well do we really know the people in our lives? What are each of us capable in pursuit of our deepest desires? As our relationships deepen, the passions we discover can drive us apart as well as bond us together. Through a comedic lens, All’s Well asks us to sit in the discomfort and problematic spaces that open up.

    All’s Well builds on Dauntless’ legacy of queering, subverting, and transforming the Bard, featuring a cast reflective of the city of Toronto. Including live music, and costumes suggesting the sumptuousness of Renaissance Florence and The Court of The Sun King, All’s Well That Ends Well aims to be Shakespeare for people who think they hate Shakespeare. Follow the action through the full 90 minutes from space to space throughout the park, or enjoy a scene while walking a dog, out with kids, or on a lunch break. Join All’s Well That End’s Well for a play that will make you think, that will delight your senses, and that at the end will leave you cheering for all the right reasons.

    All’s Well That Ends Well

    Berzcy Park at Front St and Church St
    Pay What You Can
    Friday and Saturday
    7:30pm Saturday and Sunday 1:00pm
    No performance Friday August 9th

    www.dauntlesscitytheatre.com

    Twitter: @DauntlessTO
    Instagram: dauntlessto
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dauntlessTO/

    54 min
  • #197 – Dylan Trowbridge

    Dylan is an award-winning actor, director, playwright and a founding member of Toronto's Theatrefront. He has performed with The Stratford And Shaw Festivals, Mirvish Productions and in London’s West End. Dylan considers Theatrefront his creative home, and is deeply committed to our roots in the independent theatre community. For Theatrefront Dylan has appeared in eight productions, including fforward, Mojo and Tribes. He also co-wrote and acted in Return, which received a Dora Nomination for Best New Play. Recently Dylan directed acclaimed productions of Space Opera Zero and The Harrowing OF Brimstone McReedy for Toronto’s Eldritch Theatre. He is also the director of Festival Player's of Prince Edward County's Every Brilliant Thing.

    Twitter:@dylantrowbridge
    Instagram:dylantrowbridgeyyz

    Every Brilliant Thing is a one-of-a-kind, interactive theatrical event, starring renowned actor and comedian, Gavin Crawford, that engages its audience in thrilling and original ways. At once profoundly funny and deeply moving, Every Brilliant Thing chronicles a young person’s quest to unearth every magnificent thing about being alive. “Heart-wrenching, hilarious…one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop” -The Guardian.

    www.festivalplayers.ca
    Twitter:@FestivalPlayers
    Instagram:festivalplayers
    Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/FestivalPlayers
    Tickets:https://festivalplayers.ca/events/every-brilliant-thing/

    47 min
  • #196 – False Claims

    From the gut-busting pen of Eli Pasic and the producing/acting talents of Isaiah Kolundzic, comes this fast-paced, knockabout, zany comedic bauble!

    False Claims traces the despicable schemes of Dennis—a devious, layabout nephew who poses as his late aunt’s husband in order to collect her life insurance money!

    DATES: Limited run of only 9 performances.
    Friday August 2nd, 8pm - Opening Night!
    Saturday August 3rd, 8pm
    Sunday August 4th, 2pm
    Tuesday August 6th, 8pm - PWYC Charity Fundraiser
    Wednesday August 7th, 8pm
    Thursday August 8th, 8pm
    Friday August 9th, 8pm
    Saturday August 10th, 8pm
    Sunday August 11th, 2pm - Closing

    TICKETS:
    https://falseclaims.simpletix.com/

    CAST & CREW:
    WRITTEN BY Eli Pasic
    DIRECTED BY Blair Haynes
    FEATURING Isaiah Thomas Kolundzic, Kevin Forster, Heather Dick, Kevin Hare, Melissa Taylor, Zachary Groombridge, Kathleen Welch and Judith Fiore
    DESIGNED BY Emily Dix
    PRODUCED BY Isaiah Thomas Kolundzic, Emily Dix
    ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Blythe Haynes, Eli Pasic
    STAGE MANAGED BY Jeremy Pearson

    Instagram: FalseClaimsTO
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/falseclaimsfarce/

    45 min
  • #195 – Brian Jansen

    Brian Jansen is an actor from Etobicoke, Ontario. Uniquely talented and hard working, he has been acting since he was 14 years old. A recent graduate of the Acting for Film & Television program at Niagara College.

    Brian is the director and one of the Stars of You Want it What Way? A Boy Band Tale.

    You Want it What Way?
    “You Want It What Way? A Boy Band Tale” is a sketch comedy dance show all about boy bands. We dance and sing to all of the hits and perform hilarious sketches that poke fun at all the absurdity that comes with being in a boy band. You’ll dance, laugh and sing your Justin Timberlake loving hearts out.

    www.youwantitwhatway.com
    Instagram:boybandtale
    Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/youwantitwhatway
    Tickets:http://hamiltonfringe.ca/shows/you-want-it-what-way/

    33 min
  • #194 – Laura Kyswaty

    Laura Kyswaty knew from the time she was six years old that she wanted to be a performer. As she grew up she explored her passion through theatre, dance and television.There's a confidence that comes with doing what you love, and loving what you do!

    In her many years of experience, Laura Kyswaty has appeared on screens both large and small around the world, and onstage across the country.Roles have ranged from comedy to drama, leading lady to supporting cast.Her studies in improvisation at the Second City Conservatory, along with her performance degree from York University, allow her to tackle a wide variety of projects.

    In her spare time she dances and choreographs for a local Toronto company, is a communication coach for executives in some of North America's top companies, and hangs out with her dog.

    The Promised Land
    The Promised Land at the Hamilton Fringe is a comedic homage to 1940s film noir, filled with fast-talking fellas and femme fatales, an ingenue, or two, and a wisecracking former hobo; all inhabiting a world of loose morals and suspicious intentions.

    Tickets: http://hamiltonfringe.ca/shows/promised-land/

    46 min
  • #193 – Toronto Fringe Roundup II

    The Second of Two Fringe 2019 Roundup episodes. On each of the Saturdays of the Fringe, we gather a group of performers together to talk about their shows, their Fringe experience so far, and what shows they've loved, and more.

    Monica Ogden
    Monica vs. The Internet: Tales of a Social Justice Warrior
    Instagram: socialjusticewarriorfringe
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MonicavsTheInternetShow/
    Twitter: @ragesweater
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/monica-vs-internet-tales-social-justice-warrior

    Shane Adamzack
    The Ballad of Frank Allen
    weepingspoon.com
    Instagram: weepingspoon
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/weepingspoonproductions
    Twitter: @weepingspoon
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/ballad-frank-allen

    Carlyn Rhamey
    The ADHD Project
    www.squirrelsuit.ca
    Instagram: TheADHDProject
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/SquirrelSuitProductions
    Twitter: @SquirrelSuitT
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/adhd-project

    Madeleine Brown
    News Play
    Instagram: PrairieFirePlz
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/PrairieFirePlz
    Twitter: @PrairieFirePlz
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/news-play

    Recorded 9:30AM, July 13, 2019

    47 min
  • #192 – Sarah Joy Bennett & Ginette Mohr

    Sarah Joy Bennett

    Sarah Joy Bennett is an actor, writer and designer. She is a member of Keystone Theatre, which creates original works in the style of silent film, and with them has toured Canada with their shows The Last Man On Earth and Gold Fever.

    Other past projects as a co-creator include Theatre Sasa’s puppetry-based The Pressed Fairy Book, and Power Of Flight’s original musical The Ballad Of One-Eyed Jack. She has also performed with Classic Theatre Festival, Odyssey Theatre, Brookstone Theatre, and Metaphysical Theatre. As the burlesque performer Cherry Temple, she has been featured in international burlesque festivals, and at Le Tambour Royal Theatre, in Paris.

    Her writing work includes Postcards (CBC Radio, Out Front), and Trophy, a Summerworks Festival installation for which she was part of a team of writers and storytellers.

    Ginette Mohr

    Ginette is an award-winning performer, director and playwright. Her twenty-year career in the performing arts has galvanized her love for live experiences and direct contact with people. Driven by curiosity, she works to motivate a more conscious and compassionate community through the creation of imaginative, participatory theatre.

    She has created theatre with companies that include: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neptune Theatre, Young People’s Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Drayton Entertainment, Theatre Direct, Theatre Aquarius, The Quickening Theatre, Keystone Theatre, and The Second City. Ginette recently directed and co-created Snack Music and Table Top Tales with SNAFU Dance Theatre.

    Night Feed

    As an exhausted new mother nurses in the dark of yet another night, her apartment comes to life; possessions possessed with the demons of fear, self-doubt and anxiety, a chorus of objects and body parts. You know, standard parenting stuff.

    Fringe veterans-turned-mothers Sarah Joy Bennett and Ginette Mohr return to Toronto Fringe with CLUNK Puppet Lab, turning their brand of imaginative storytelling to tackle motherhood, injecting a healthy dose of the bizarre and surreal to make sense of “the most meaningful time of your life”.

    www.nightfeed.ca
    Instagram: nightfeedplay
    Twitter: @nightfeedplay
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nightfeedplay
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/night-feed

    41 min
  • #191 – 2019 Toronto Fringe Roundup I

    The First of Two Fringe 2019 Roundup episodes. On each of the Saturdays of the Fringe, we gather a group of performers together to talk about their shows, their Fringe experience so far, and what shows they've loved, and more.

    Kaho Koda
    Decaying Tongue
    website: https://www.humanburrito.com/
    instagram: humanburritoproductions
    facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humanburritoproductions/
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/decaying-tongue

    Monica Ogden
    Monica vs. The Internet: Tales of a Social Justice Warrior
    Instagram: socialjusticewarriorfringe
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MonicavsTheInternetShow/
    Twitter: @ragesweater
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/monica-vs-internet-tales-social-justice-warrior

    Sarah Joy Bennett
    Night Feed
    Instagram: nightfeedplay
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/nightfeedplay
    Twitter: @nightfeedplay
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/night-feed

    Shane Adamzack
    The Ballad of Frank Allen
    weepingspoon.com
    Instagram: weepingspoon
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/weepingspoonproductions
    Twitter: @weepingspoon
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/ballad-frank-allen

    Carlyn Rhamey
    The ADHD Project
    www.squirrelsuit.ca
    Instagram: TheADHDProject
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/SquirrelSuitProductions
    Twitter: @SquirrelSuitT
    Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/adhd-project

    Recorded 9:30am, July 6, 2019

    52 min
  • #190 – Michael Ross Albert

    Michael Ross Albert is the author of several plays including Miss (FringeNYC; Unit 102 Actors Company); The Farmers Lit the Fields on Fire (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (FringeNYC, published by Applause in Best American Short Plays 2014-2015); and Karenin’s Anna (Toronto Fringe Festival, “Outstanding New Play,” — NOW Magazine), as well as the 2018 Toronto Fringe hit, Anywhere.

    Along with the Storefront Theatre, Michael produced the sold-out world premiere production of his play Tough Jews in the heart of Toronto’s Kensington Market. The production was nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production.

    His play Starfishes opened Off-Broadway at the Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam and is included in Best American Short Plays 2010-2011. It has since been performed across the United States and Canada.

    Michael received an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Michael is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

    The Huns
    The morning after a break-in at a tech company, three co-workers assemble for a conference call to discuss the burglary. What starts as a civilized, professional meeting swiftly devolves into a brutal showdown that puts everyone's careers-- and their hopes for future happiness-- in jeopardy.

    STREETCAR CROWSNEST: GULOIEN THEATRE
    345 Carlaw Ave.

    Friday July 5, 9:30pm
    Saturday July 6, 6:15pm
    Sunday July 7, 8:30pm
    Tuesday July 9, 7:30pm
    Thursday July 11, 5:30pm
    Friday July 12, 10:15pm
    Sunday July 14, 4:00pm


    Instagram:OneFourOneCollective
    Twitter:@OneFourOneCo
    Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/onefourone/
    Tickets:https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/huns

    55 min
  • #189 – Mark Brownell

    Mark Brownell is a Toronto-based playwright and co-artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife, Sue Miner.

    He is the author of a number of plays, including Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman, which was nominated for a Governor General's Award. His libretto for the opera Iron Road won a Dora Mavor Moore Award and he was nominated for a Dora for his 2006 play, Medici Slot Machine.

    Three Men on a Bike
    From the company that brought you the award-winning Toronto Fringe smash hit Three Men in a Boat. Based upon the further writings of Victorian author Jerome K. Jerome. Pea Green Theatre Group proudly presents Three Men on a Bike! (Being the further adventures of three Victorian gentlemen as they embark upon a disastrous bicycling trip to the continent.) Not to be missed!

    Three Men on a Bike
    Tarragon Theatre Mainspace

    Thu 4th Jul 6:15 pm
    Sat 6th Jul 10:00 pm
    Mon 8th Jul 8:45
    Wed 10th Jul 5:45 pm
    Sat 13th Jul 8:00 pm
    Sun 14th Jul 2:00 pm

    Directed By: Sue Miner
    Adapted for the Stage By: Mark Brownell
    Featuring: Matt Pilipiak, Victor Pokinko and David DiFrancesco
    Period Costumes By: Nina Okens
    Period Music By: J. Rigzin Tute

    peagreentheatre.com
    Twitter:@Montmorency3Men
    Tickets:https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/three-men-bike

    54 min

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