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CROWN HILL CEMETERY

Near(by) death experience

New York City monologist Lisa Haas presents her morbidly funny tale about her struggle to avoid death while growing up next to a burial ground in the suburbs of Denver.

Directed by Jocelyn Sawyer, Crown Hill Cemetery centers on the story of Haas’s uncle who obsessively photographs dead relatives in their coffins. Haas uncovers his mysterious shutter-bug tendencies through a series of hapless yet embarrassing events. She aspires to fully embrace life only to have her enthusiasm trampled on by telemarketers selling cemetery plots, coffin-side calamities and her death obsessed family.  Even a simple trip to the mall turns sour when her sister justifies purchasing an outfit for their mother by pointing out, “She needs something decent to wear, and for God’s sake, what will we bury her in?”

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Canary, by Liesl Lafferty

“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

~Marie Curie~

Chaos Collective, with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity, presents the premiere of Canary, written and directed by Liesl Lafferty, featuring Tasha Lawrence, Kathryn Haggis and Heidi Waters, at the Fringe, Toronto’s Theatre Festival, from July 1st to July 12th, 2009.

This play is for everybody who has had anything wrong with them, without knowing why. Canary is a dark comedy about Lily, a young woman who is struck with a mysterious and debilitating aversion to artificial light. Our hero battles a toxic world and raises the question, ‘Are you next?’

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Starring
Erin Fleck, Andrew Cheng, Allyson Pratt, Shannon Roszell,
Kate Kudelka, Jaclyn Zaltz, Liam Morris, Michael Bedford, Glyn Bowerman & Simon Esler

It is the ninth of November, the diametric opposite of 9-11, and one perfectly sensible woman, with perfectly reasonable fears, is taking an uneventful plane ride, doomed to end in perfectly mindless tragedy. Suzie and the nine other passengers on this ill-fated flight have roughly thirty thousand feet left to live as Suzie attempts to save the world from the danger she knows is lurking.

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Brigitte’s Bardo promises a Hell of a Good time at the 2009 Fringe Festival!

Hard enough to figure things out while you’re alive, Brigitte tumbles through the netherworld and takes us with her.

Fresh out of Bondage (Fringe hit, 08) and into Hell, Elaine Smookler, writer/performer, debuts Brigitte’s Bardo a musical comedy based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead at this summer’s Toronto Fringe Festival – July 1 – 12th, 2009.  This romp through the underworld brings together the directorial talents of Scott Norman and original music by Josh Bell.

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The Room presents:
RED MACHINE: Part One

The most innovative, ambitious show of the festival theatre season. Seven playwrights. Three directors. One Red Machine.

In an attempt to smash his writer’s block, Hugo checks into a motel where he is unexpectedly consumed by the search for a missing guest – a journey that takes him deep into the inner workings of his own brain.

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