From the press release:
The Fringe, Toronto’s largest theatre festival, is geared up and ready to provide the most accessible, exciting and affordable entertainment in town. There isn’t another place in the city to catch rising stars from around the world, all for under $10, and with 150 productions at 30 venues to choose from, this year there’s something for everyone.
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From Press Release
The Williamson Playboys in: BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE SOME PANTS?
Written by and starring
Paul Bates and Doug Morency as the legendary Williamson Playboys
Hard economic times got you down? The Williamson Playboys (Second City alumni Paul Bates and Doug Morency) want to remind you how good you’ve got it. The world’s oldest father-and-son Cajun music duo suffered through the Great Depression and lived to sing about it. The Roaring Twenties weren’t so rollicking. The Dirty Thirties were more than messy. And World War II wasn’t all Nazis, Churchill, and chocolate rations. In this hour of hilarious songs and stories, the Playboys aim to set the record straight and tell you what really went down in the turbulent era of the ‘20s and ‘30s that started with reckless partying and ended with wanton warring.
Continue reading Coming to Toronto Fringe 2009: BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE SOME PANTS?
By Megan Mooney
A full review is to follow, but just in case you are still wondering whether or not to get tickets to this show for the last performance today, then do it. Of course, I’m pretty sure they’re sold out, but they may have a waiting list, or perhaps if you go there in person and beg enough?
If you are lucky enough to already have tickets (YAY!) be forewarned that it’s ‘woofstock’ this weekend, making getting around bloody difficult. Front and Wellington are both closed from Jarvis to Yonge, so you can’t get past Front Street by car at all. I’m not sure how the North-South transit stuff is being effected. And walking is some special kind of hell because the place is JAMMED with people and dogs.
What I’m saying is give yourself lots of time to get there.
Some other reviews on the show can be found at:
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From Press Release
Award-winning director Frances-Anne Solomon presents the extraordinary and timely stage production Lockdown at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival.
This July, CaribbeanTales in association with Leda Serene Films will stage the world premiere of award-winning director Frances-Anne Solomon’s new theatrical production Lockdown, brought to audiences for the first time ever at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival (July 1st to 12th).
By Megan Mooney
Continuous City, a production from The Builders Association, is a critically acclaimed ‘multi-media experience’ that plays internationally. It is making it’s Canadian debut at LuminaTO this year. You can expect lots of video and some pretty cool folding screens.