1994 TORONTO FRINGE 1994 TORONTO FRINGE
1994 Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
PLAY LISTINGS
Blunt Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
A Clever Boy
by Bruce Hunter
There once was a boy named Danny,
With delusions of which there were many.
He fell deep in a trance, And killed all the ants.
So is he the Devil or Danny?
45 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Sharps & Flats
Toronto, ON
presented
Adam and the Experts
by Victor Bumbalo
A celebration of the will to live - of average people whom circumstances turn into heroes. We laugh with gratitude because we're reminded that even in the face of AIDS laughter is possible. And it's a good thing that it is.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Tomahawk Theatre
Glasgow, Scotland
presented
Adonais - Keats in Limbo
by Cathal Quinn
KEATS FIGHTS BACK! The spirit of Keats returns to give us an alternative view of the life of this extraordinary poet.
Brilliant dramatic use of his letters and poetry to discover that, despite the more glamorous reputations of his contemporaries Byron and Shelley, Keats is the nobler, the better poet.
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's Theatre
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail Players
Toronto, ON
presented
An Office Western
by P.J. Heslin
An urban comedy about love in the corporate west.
30 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Church Basement Amateurs
Toronto, ON
presented
And This Is Al
by Christine Heffernan and Mark Hemphill
Outside influences and deteriorating atmospheric conditions cause a young woman to re-evaluate her part, and her partner, in the street music duo, "Mark and Al." A toe-tapping comedy.
45 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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Mad Rock Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Burning Bright
by Victoria Dawe
A night at the beach...
When the day burns into night and the moon drowns in the ocean, they gather and the games commence. It's what happens when the darkness approaches and they are compelled to rediscover fire. Not suitable for children.
50 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Come Here Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Call Control
by Anne Langdon
When mysterious comments begin appearing on subway platform pixel boards, a local TV celebrity vows to unmask the hacker behind it. She finds him, displays him and falls for him. All is bliss until a disturbing relapse occurs. Is communication an art, or a vice?
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Special Delivery Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Chain Mail
by Alana Shields
Directed by Ed Sahely
Angela Dowdie has received 23 chain letters over the last 23 years. She has answered them all. Today, she is about to stop the chain at #24. She ponders what may befall her and reviews the events of her life as she decides whether "to mail or not to mail".
50 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Dark Lung Theatre Co.
Vancouver, Canada
presented
Choked
by Ian Butcher, Brittany Edgell, Rory Leveille
CHOKED is a play complete without words set to the music of Claude Debussy and Dmitri Shostakovich. Dark nights, a mist covered graveyard, and the blackened halls of an eccentric old mansion provide asylum for this twisted story of love, lust, and murder. With Ian Butcher of "The Fuck Machine".
55 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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First Draft Theatre Co.
Toronto, ON
presented
Come Back to the Forum, Guy Lafleur, Guy Lafleur
by Frank Flynn
COME BACK TO THE FORUM, GUY LAFLEUR, GUY LAFLEUR is a rollicking journey through the emotional landscape of five Montreal barflies. It's an evening of interactive entertainment, so hoist a glass with the Habitant Warriors as they summon the courage to confront the truth of their own lives.
60 Minutes
BYOV - Clinton Tavern
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Amy Rose and Catherine Schane-Lydon
Stockbridge, USA
presented
Curses! Foiled Again...
by Amy Rose
An innocent's attempt to perform all of the roles in a traditional melodrama goes awry as she battles a slide projector beyond her control - or is it?...These versatile international performing artists offer up carefully crafted chaos, physical comedy, live music and an on-coming train gone out of control!
50 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Mari Osanai
Aomori, Japan
presented
Dawn
by Mari Osanai
A unique dance piece featuring a mixture of styles including classical ballet, modern and jazz dance, Tai Chi and Saburo Teshigawara's method.
20 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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One Odd Group
Toronto, ON
presented
Death Seat
by Joan Mason Hurley
Come in. Have a drink.
Most people visit only once. Not many visit twice. Some linger a while. Others pass through quickly.
They're not particular. They take all sorts. Even you, even me. Have a seat - A drama between life and death.
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Stiletto Company
Toronto, ON
presented
Derailed
by Catherine Hayos, Rena Polley
Lies, confessions and desires erupt in the confines of a train compartment. Four desperate characters, one long journey. A new dark comedy from the creators of MOTHER OF PEARL. Written in collaboration with Emil Sher.
60 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Arte Flamenco Spanish Dance Co.
Toronto, ON
presented
España! Con Sus Brazos Abiertos.
by Elena La Comadre
In this presentation of España! Con Sus Brazos Abiertos, artistic director/choreographer Elena La Comadre blends classical and flamenco Spanish dance to portray the story of one's journey to Spain in search of one's identity. The passionate voice of flamenco singer/guitarist Cesar Alvarez will instill in the audience, glimpses of Spain's rich culture. A programme to be enjoyed by all ages.
40 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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Chicks on the Road
Toronto, ON
presented
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Jeopardy...
by The Company...and you!
Check it out! It's an improvised show - that means it's totally based on your suggestions. That means you're in control. It's always different every time - kind of like Nuts 'n' Bolts - but without the M.S.G....besides - you never know who'll show up to guest!
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Theatre Thuraya
Toronto, ON
presented
Evian Water For Valentine's Day
by Sally Ashcroft-Blake and Ruba Nadda
A man and woman of the 90's. A vacant apartment. EVIAN WATER FOR VALENTINE'S DAY pounds away at the barriers that men and women erect around themselves when confronted with the possibility of the evil four-letter word: love. Real life. Real people. Real theatre. Producer: Angela West
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Millennium Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
Feel This, Nantucket
by Elizabeth Noble
Jon Michaelson
Noble's newest comic drama: A very human story about the amazing Harmony Nantucket, caught between two very different men in the cupra-violent anarchy of life on earth in the year 2025. Not sci-fi. Mature content.
55 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Used Bread Bags
Toronto, ON
presented
Felicity
by Shauna Black
Felicity is back, and in the basement! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get freezie pops.
"Wickedly delicious...performed beautifully" - Theatrum
"Felicity is hilarious" - Globe & Mail.
40 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
Not for younger children.
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Olivier Entertainment
Berkeley, USA
presented
Frank vs. the Sex Monster
by Frank Olivier
THE SEX MONSTER WREAKS HAVOC!
Meanwhile: Frank Olivier, the outrageous physical comedian, struggles to continue his mind-boggling performance and save the world in this fast paced, quick-change, one-man show. THE HILARIOUS SEQUEL TO THE LORENA BOBBIT STORY!
60 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Metal Corset Co.
Toronto, ON
presented
Frida K.
by Gloria Montero
Starring Allegra Fulton. Directed by Peter Hinton. A world premiere based on the life o f Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1945), FRIDA K is a passionate journey of self-discovery and transformation, a celebration of a controversial and often difficult life and a lesson in courage! Mature Content.
50 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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The Max Factory
Toronto, ON
presented
Gazebo
by Max Hancock
Guests aren't coming to the motel anymore, and the scum is starting to settle on the surface of the swimming pool. A tale of domestic desperation adapted from a Raymond Carver story (that wasn't included in Robert Altman's "Short Cuts"). Mature content.
40 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Peter Henein and Adam Nashman
Toronto, ON
presented
Griddle and Pots
by Old Beagle and Adam Nashman
Fred Griddle wants to kill himself. Bim Pots wants to save him - but first he wants to sell him something. Hilarity ensues! From the director that brought you Café Naked, a journey into vaudeville, physical theatre and implied sexual innuendo.
50 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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Potluck Productions
Calgary, Canada
presented
Holy Mo
by Lucia Frangione
With a stutter, a surrogate mudder, and a smooth-talkin' blues-playin' brudder, Mo's back to battle Rambo and save his people from bondage. An exodus of sorts...kitchen utensils provided.
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Bad Dog/No Biscuit
Toronto, ON
presented
If Betty Should Rise
by David Demchuk
IF BETTY SHOULD RISE is a portrait of an ageing woman who was brutally sexually assaulted by her father from her infancy throughout her childhood. Betty leads us through her survival with grace and humour. Warning: inner child must be accompanied by outer adult.
58 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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PretzelheadProductions
Toronto, ON
presented
If He Hollers
by Sheila Heti, Jacob Richmond, Leah Walker
A black comedy in which a man is seduced into playing himself in a revealing, prophetic, and often grotesque caricature of his own life.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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The Four Strombones Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
In Transit: 40 Minutes After Midnight
by The Company
A new work created by sketch comedy/improv veterans The Four Strombones (and guests) takes a hard and often hilarious look at some real (and some unreal) people as they weave in and out of each other's experience in this look at 50 minutes of life in a bus terminal.
50 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Much Moose Theatre Company
Toronto, ON
presented
Judith - A Parting from the Body
by Howard Barker
Passion, a philosophy and...murder are the concerns of the general, the young widow and her ideologist mentor in Howard Barker's radical retelling of the apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes. The traumatic effects of her betrayal of the body are revealed in the State's use of her sexuality.
60 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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1. All Feline Revue 2. Mammalian Diving Reflex
Toronto, ON
presented
Kitten with a Crucifix & Who Shot Jacques Lacan? (Seminar 1)
by 1. Victoria Ward 2. Darren O'Donnell
1. KITTEN: Sex. Faith. Stockings. Wine...that suffering wooden face belonging to a scantily clad body that's not muscular but not wimpy either, you pray, "Father, I have sinned. Punish me." Please.
2. LACAN: In which the Performers create a Vortex to slowly evoke the Audience's Unconscious. Ideal for Mature individuals.
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Fashion Beast
Toronto, ON
presented
Live! At The Apocalypse*
(*The Apocalypse, Indiana Bus Terminal)
by Paul Koster
All roads eventually lead to Rome, but first there's a stopover at the Apocalypse, Indiana bus terminal. A 1940s gangster/noir.
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Parallel Exit
Toronto, ON
presented
Love Makes the World Go Blind
by Mark Lonergan
"Every love story has a plot that moves. No two love stories play themselves out in exactly the same way or on precisely the same schedule. But they all share milestones: when will he introduce you to his family? At what point do you start making love without shaving your legs first?" - Glamour magazine; February 1994.
45 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Pamela Proctor
Orlando, USA
presented
Love Me Blind
by Pamela Proctor
Dakota has got a lot of secrets. She heads into the great outdoors to examine them. On an unusual and enlightening camping trip, she wrestles with love, sex, fear and anger. Mature content.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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All Terrain Vehicle
Toronto, ON
presented
Minus Wings:
by Kathe Gray
The thrill of falling is lost when you have a soft spot to land. Some lessons on landing taught by a man perched on a ladder and a woman holding a microphone. Inspired by a series of photos by American artist Duane Michals. Featuring an original soundscape.
50 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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The Stone Soup Company
Toronto, ON
presented
Mystic Mountain
by K. Michael Gordon & Hilary Gordon
TROUBLE WITH FAMILY? BUSINESS? THE MOB? TRY THE TOTAL PACKAGE;
It's Vedic Flying, Tantric Sex, Rides and a Petting Zoo for the kiddies...
The Mystic Mountain Vedaplex™, Spritual Retreat and Family Amusement Centre, where the holy meets the hustle. A cynical comedy starring Chris Kitowski, Cathy Wendt and Francisca Zentilli.
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Direct Call Productions
Victoria, Canada
presented
Never Swim Alone
by Daniel MacIvor
Two men, rivals since childhood, act out their need to be first. Ten rounds. Each round takes us through a different part of life. Family. Business. Penis size. Winner takes all.
60 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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On A Wing and a Prayer Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
P.O.W. (Prisoner of Words)
by Jonathan Tanner
WAR IS HELL AND THEN YOU DIE. (And that's no guarantee of relief!). Captain Harry Malet spent two years as a Japanese P.O.W. and fifty years explaining his time in captivity to the Guardians of the Pearly Gates! Who'd have thought his own diary could be used to question his integrity?!
55 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Bald Ego Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Panting of the Victors
by Lisa Ryder & Selina Martin
Welcome to the Vic & Vicky show!
They sing! They dance! They pull down their pants! They perform up a storm. They rhymes and they chants!
...but the Fickle Drumroll is not pleased.
50 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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Pack of Wolves
Toronto, ON
presented
Perversion of Appetite
by Michael Stray
Arnold promises Charlotte that he will become a vegetarian. When he breaks that promise, he is kidnaped by "pig-humanoids" and faces corrective brain surgery. Only the love of a pigheaded woman can save him. Your ham sandwich will never taste the same. (not suitable for children or piglets).
50 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Mete and Pike Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Phood For Phobos
by Peter Reitzel
Fear is the response to a real life situation. It is rational. PHOOD FOR PHOBOS is about recognizing fear (being trapped with strangers, avoiding phone calls, addressing problems as they happen...) - seizing the moments we constantly neglect and renewing faith in humanity. NO GIMMIKS: just sweat, sound and movement.
60 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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R David Stephens
Toronto, ON
presented
Please Don't Throw Things At Me! & The Wounding - A Poetic Still Life
by R. David Stephens
Performance Poetry from Los Angeles
1. The Perils of a Poet/Supply Teacher directed by Stafford Arima
2. Meditations on Child Molestation performed with Jill Carter
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Goliath Productions
Montreal, Canada
presented
Reefer Madness
by Jeremy Hechtman and Otto Nicholson
Directed by: Jeremy Hechtman
The first effect is violent, uncontrollable laughter, then comes dangerous hallucinations - space expands - time slows down...fixed ideas come next, conjuring up monstrous extravagances - followed by emotional disturbances, the loss of all power to resist physical emotions...leading finally to acts of shocking violence...ending often in incurable insanity. Produced by Ken Hechtman.
50 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Captives of Savage Passions Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Romeo and Rosaline
by Andrew Batten
Verona's streets are full, upon our stage,
With laughter, flashing blades, and lover's sighs;
Where Juliet seeks escape from father's rage
Whilst Romeo's head is turned by several eyes.
Didst though think Romeo constant? Methinks no,
Find out the truth, come join us for the show.
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Packing House Productions
Vancouver, Canada
presented
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
by Eric Bogosian
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL is Eric Bogosian's contemporary one-man show that deals with important issues in today's society, with a distinct black sense of humour. One man, no set, no intermission, just 60 minutes of controversial acting and dialogue that is guaranteed to leave an impression on you.
60 Minutes
The Glen Morris Studio
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female sex productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Sex/Female
by Holly Dennison & Annie Szamosi
CANCELLED (See Fringe Venues For Details)
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Straightforward Co.
Toronto, ON
presented
Shareware
by St. Vladimir Theatre
Directed by Damir Andrei
Student room-mates Nick and Oliver waste far too much time playing computer games - particularly the cheap software games called 'shareware'. One day, Nick unearths an obscure program with truly mind-blowing special effects. Thing is, it keeps demanding more and more memory...A comic thriller for the computer illiterate.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Flying Badger Theatre Co.
Toronto, ON
presented
Signed Confession
by Hugh McClaren Evans
A society where crime seeps like urine, foul from the sewers. An unsolved homicide. A young poet who "just happens" to be in the vicinity. Two psychopathic cops. A Bible. A revolver. A pair of lady's underthings. A shameful secret. And a school board-issue bamboo punishment birch..."Confess!"
50 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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4 Thought Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Skirmishes
by Catherine Hayes
Two sisters faced with their mother's impending death struggle to come to terms with themselves and each other. A darkly comic look at the power of the dying to affect the lives of those who survive them. Canadian premiere. Mature content.
60 Minutes
Royal St George's College
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Fa Do
Toronto, ON
presented
Small Towns
by Sandy McFadden
Have you ever resented how straight corn grows in rows? Dreamed to be the girl in the blue dress in the flyer that you found at your door? This multi-voiced performance art piece offers a quirky, lyrical exploration of small-town Canadian life. The strip malls are coming!
45 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Ed Haggard
Nashville, USA
presented
Son of White Man: The Naked Truth
by Ed Haggard
Poetic, provocative, wickedly funny performance by this infamous renegade from Nashville. Well written, wonderfully woven stories, performance poetry and viewer friendly performance art saturated with SEX, MUSIC, COMEDY and SURPRISE. A comic examination of lovers, family prejudice, crime, smoking, pop psychology...Fringe favourite. ADULT THEMES, COLOURFUL LANGUAGE, NUDITY.
60 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Humble Access Theatre
Montreal, Canada
presented
Sour Dough
by Christopher Ralph
Winner of the 1994 Playwrights' Workshop Montreal "write-on-the-Edge" competition. SOUR DOUGH is a treatise on survival. Rowboats, bath-tubs, wedding footage, home-cranial surgery and six wayward souls feature in this hilarious and disturbing portrait of the contemporary Canadian relationship. Wonderful warped dark humour.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Live Bait Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Sport Fishing
by Chris Kanurkas
Sex and fish. Is it possible? Norm wants a marlin. Jim wants what Norm wants. Jane wants whatever she can get. And Jill wants out. A hot and lusty comedy about marlin, mermaids and finding the right kind of bait! A real, surreal adventure!
45 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Rule Five Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
Stop Slowing Down
by Jason Sherman
Four short plays about race, sex, death and theatre - though not necessarily in that order. Includes the controversial "Merchant of Showboat."
50 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Mytheatre
Toronto, ON
presented
Suivre L'Appel
by Mytheatre Collective
A visually compelling exploration of Franco-Ontarian poetry with the masks of Louise Nolan. A vibrant ensemble piece with the combined strengths of techniques used in musical comedy, experimental theatre and circus performance. A fun evening designed to involve the audience on many levels at every turn.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Two Soldiers Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Suspended Between Past and Present
by Geoffrey Tyler
Two college friends share an apartment in the city. Armed with their dreams they're ready to set the world on fire. Only, since college, someone has changed all the rules without supplying new ones. What are they prepared to do to make a start? Are they prepared to fight for it?
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Silver Tongue Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Talk About Crazy
by Neil Muscott
The Plot: what happens when a compulsive talker spends 36 hours in City-TV's Speakers Corner. Subplots: dinner with Ziggy, World Records, nervous breakdowns, and what about that mysterious white limo? A comedy about fame or: "Mr. Znaimer, I'm ready for my close up." Mature Content.
50 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Tall Tales Theatre Company
Montreal/Toronto, Canada
presented
Telepersonal
by Margaret Webb
Is that "leave a message or message or massage?" When a biker gal from Calgary discovers the sexy tonalité of a "bilingual message"in Montreal, radical lesbian Monique Wittig - among others - slips out of her unconscious. Produced by Sina Queyras.
45 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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A Little Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
The Appointment
by Hannes Kivilaht
Driven to the brink by loan sharks and shyster business deals, an incompetent old fool of a doctor throws himself on the mercy of a former patient who naively answers the appointment call of his childhood hero and mentor. A comedy about dashed hopes and our boundless faith in authority.
50 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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The Battleaxe Who Ate Broadway Productions
Vancouver, Canada
presented
The Butthole Traumedy
by Frannie Sheridan
A jewish-catholic stand-up traumatic. You think her nose is big, you should see her clitoris! "The Butthole Traumedy" is a taboo-busting feminist satire. You'll find yourself laughing at all the wrong things. Banned in comedy clubs across Canada.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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Shamingu
Tokorozawa, Japan
presented
The Climb & The Walk Across...
by Noriko Yamamoto
1. A short mime skit about climbing through life. 2. A "modern mime" drama about two women's journey across a rainbow. Who do they meet on the way? What's revealed? Will they make it across?? First performed in Tokyo in March 1994.
60 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Ghost River Theatre
Calgary, Canada
presented
The Cruise
by Doug Curtis
The Love Boat. The all-you-can-eat buffet. Parasailing. The runaway hit at the 1993 Edmonton Fringe. Live music by Juno winner Lester Quitzau and Peter Moller. Directed by Andy Curtis. Early purchase recommended.
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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English Madhatters
London, England/Vancouver, Canada
presented
The Happy Cunt
by Erika Paterson, Diana Dent, Deb Pickman
Diana Dent's English Madhatter's theatre company has Bewitched Fringe audiences from Montreal to Victoria. Deb Pickman, from Vancouver, Inflamed T.O. audiences last summer with her performance in Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions. Together they are Outrageous, Maddening, and Wickedly funny. The Happy Cunt is the Goddess in Every woman. A True Story.
60 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Gun Shy
Toronto, ON
presented
The Human Voice
by Jean Cocteau
A bed. A phone. A woman alone. This sensual study in surrealism explores one woman's auto-erotic journey through love, lies, and broken passions...Jean Cocteau's rarely-seen one-woman classic starring Anne Farquhar and directed by "Nazi Jew Queer/Lebensborn's" Sabina Fella.
50 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Iron Curtain Company
Toronto, ON
presented
The Iron Curtain
by Howie Wiseman
A play about the collapse of the Soviet Union and of a screenwriter's personal life during the making of his first feature film in Moscow. The Canadian writer/waiter writes a film in a week, then is summoned to Moscow to save the sinking ship. It's a comedy.
60 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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The Johnson Girls
Toronto, ON
presented
The Johnson Girls
by Toni Cade Bambara (adapted by Karen Woolridge)
It always winds up to a moment like this when there's some big thing in Inez's life and all her friends gather, mostly the in-group.
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Poor No-Ass Players
Toronto, ON
presented
The Jones Boy
by Tom Walmsley
First produced at Toronto Free in 1978 with R.H. Thomson, THE JONES BOY is a compelling and starkly realistic drama about two couples stuck in the vicious world of drug abuse. Uncompromising and ugly, Walmsley says his play "is not about heroin" but about the extraordinary people who use it.
60 Minutes
St. Vladimir Theatre
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No Boss Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
The Letterbox Letters
by Jeri Reason & Laura Jayne Nelles
My dear Mother and Father;
This is rather a hard letter to write. I trust you will bear with me until the end. I'm not trying to put the blame on anyone else. It was just a joke. I was only kidding.
P.S. Is the cheque in the mail?
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Wilde Man Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
The Odyssey of Ulysses Plimkyn
by Bill Castleman
A sadistic, horrific, anti-realistic comedy about the relevance of extrasensory perception to the cataclysmic economy of our unfortunate times.
45 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Talking Pictures Press
Toronto, ON
presented
The Poetry Express
by Jill Battson
All Aboard the Poetry Express!! Experience true interactive poetry with a group of action poets and their travel poems including the work of the only traveling beat, Jack Kerouac. It's gritty, it's hot, it's a sixty minute ride in a yellow school bus full o' fun, and - we provide the pepto bismol!
60 Minutes
BYOV: Pickup outside The Fringe Club
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The Way Off Broadway Group
Vancouver, Canada
presented
The Scions of Hydra
by Michael Wener and Michael Schaldemose
A fast paced sci-fi action adventure from the producers of Erections Ejaculations Exhibitions, Young Hitler, and The Fuck Machine. Two female factions fight to control the genetic destiny of their planet. Crucial DNA must be found...off world. William Shatner finds himself an unwilling participant as he is kidnaped off the set of Star Trek VII.
60 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Geoffrey Hyland/Claire Berlein
Cape Town, South Africa
presented
The Yello Wallpaper
From the novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In an attic nursery, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of a Victorian woman's mind. Echoes of Edgar Allen Poe. Claire Berlein directed by Geoffrey Hyland - two award-winning artists.
50 Minutes
The Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
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Don't Look Down Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Thrum
by Krista White, D. Garnet Harding, Victoria Adilman
Various characters explore the causes of friction on the journeys they take.
These are people in Motion. Motion people in Motion...FRICTION...THRUM.
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Bert Bath Theatre
Toronto, ON
presented
Tug...
by Kimberley Orton & Laura McLeod
...consists of two playlets.
(THE GREAT CANADIAN) RECESS (L McLeod): One minute you're skipping, the next minute you're having reconstructive surgery. Pretty crazy world, eh?
TUG (K. Orton): The moon offers an ultimatum, a woman chokes on the choice and her echo...her echo...echo.
60 Minutes
The George Ignatieff Theatre
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Arcane Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Untitled and Anonymous
by Bruno Miguel
Aspects of life as seen through the eyes of a profane character...experienced through the art of sound, movement and text.
40 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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Real Canadian Mounted Productions
Victoria, Canada
presented
Whiskey Fugue and Requiem: A Funeral in Four Parts
by The Company
Can a man pickle his wife, bury her four times and walk away? Join our funeral procession that crosses mountains, oceans, nations and time. Physical theatre and live music take a comic and dramatic journey through love, death and riches. Fringes '90-'93 - "emotionally raw", "passionate", "disturbing", "biggest surprise of The Fringe!"
60 Minutes
Royal St. George's College
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Helen is Lucky Productions
Toronto, ON
presented
Windows
by Kirk Gonnsen, Story by Helen Hatzis
A man reveals secrets to his girlfriend while rehearsing scenes from his play about a man confined to a wheel chair. He reveals stories of an affair, a father/son break up and a desire to travel to Arizona. In the end, his girlfriend confronts him to deal with his problems in their world instead of the world of his play.
45 Minutes
The Poor Alex Theatre
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