I kicked off my Toronto 2012 Fringe Festival experience with tonight’s opening night performance of The No Bull$#!% History of Canada at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (Venue 10/11) and what a great way to begin!
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From press release
WEEPING SPOON PRODUCTIONS presents
ZACK ADAMS – A Complete History Of Zack Adams
Written and performed by Shane Adamczak
Nominated – BEST LOCAL COMEDY – FRINGE WORLDFESTIVAL 2012
Nominated – JUST FOR LAUGHS award MONTREAL FRINGE 2012
After charming the pants of audiences in Australia and Canada in 2011 with ZACK ADAMS: LOVE SONGS FOR FUTURE GIRL (“✭✭✭✭” -CBC “✭✭✭✭”- UPTOWN “✭✭✭✭”-TIMES COLONIST, Nominated for the JUST FOR LAUGHS AWARD for BEST COMEDY – Montreal Fringe 2011); Australia’s own Zack Adams returns to where it all began in A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ZACK ADAMS.
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From press release
Coffeehouse Theatre presents their first original production, “Linda & Jason” by new playwright Jenessa Grant.
Produced & Directed by: Evan Harkai
Featuring:
Jenessa Grant, Adam Christie, Jesse Nerenberg & Alex Spyropoulos
“I’m 26! I’m old! I have spent a decade building on this awful, hateful bitterness and resentment, and honestly I think I’m too old and jaded to be any other way. I’m just. I’m so old Jason, I feel, I feel so so so so old. And stupid. I am an old, stupid, bad – person!” – Linda
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From press release
Austrian-born-half-Greek-hald-Austrian-Canadian-raised-currently-in- the-UK standup, Pat Burtscher, is one of the most exciting and inspiring acts to emerge on the UK comedy scene in the past few years. His supremely confident delivery wins over the toughest of audiences and his cleverly crafted and surreal material guarantee that the laughs come hard and fast. Pat has done gigs all around the world, was a finalist in the Laughing Horse New Act and Hackney Empire competitions, and has been featured at multiple comedy festivals. Including The Edinburgh Fringe, The Toronto Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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From press release
This is the story about a man, his family and bread.
At age 15, acclaimed Canadian actor Greg Ellwand (Lord Peter Wimsey, Democracy, The Listener) learned from his mother how to bake bread: simple, clean bread, turned out every Sunday, that nourished his family growing up.
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