Like Bees and Honey… Things are about to get sticky…
Pretty Little Liars Productions is proud to present a bold new work by emerging Canadian playwright Neale Kimmel at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
In Like Bees and Honey, we are welcomed into the Woodard family home, in rural Manitoba. Becca, Gary, Melissa and Ruth are siblings that inhabit the house. Becca’s daughter Deborah lives there also. Thanks to a dead body found in the compost a couple of farms over, the Woodard family now has another person in their home- Officer Boyd. He and his partner, Officer Robinson, are sent to search the property, as it is believed that the murder suspect may be hiding in their shed. When Gary leaves with Robinson to complete the search, Boyd is left to keep watch of the sisters. Along the twisty path of this Gothic tale, we discover that there isn’t anything quite like a brother’s love, that Becca’s baby is starting to smell, and Officer Boyd learns that you don’t say ‘no’ to the Woodard hospitality.
DEAD CAT BOUNCE is an urban comedy about winning, losing and life on the street, performed in the heart of Kensington Market, right on the street.
A stock trader falls for an indie blues singer who hangs out with a wily old homeless man known in the neighbourhood as The Mayor. Thomas plays by the numbers, calculates the risks and works his system, which is called the dead cat bounce. Amara is a free spirit who “can’t hold down a job, drinks too much, and is a singer!” Can The Mayor bring this unlikely couple together with his ramblings about everything from snakes to Billy Jack movies? Or has he some other insidious scheme in mind?
When Andrew and Kris play their music together, something happens. Whatever that something is, it takes on a life of its own, and Andrew struggles to deal with it as it leaks into each of his relationships, and challenges his structured life and somewhat average aspirations.
Fester, is a new play written by Kristofer Van Soelen and assembled in conjunction with several of his third year classmates at George Brown Theatre School. This show will be the first professional showing for each of the ensemble members, and the show is filled with original songs that highlight the major themes of the piece.
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“I lose weight when I cry!”
THEATRE UNDER PRESSURE
Presents
WEIGHT LOSS WORLD
Written and Directed by Chris Michael Burns
Sally Pitt is an artist. Tommy Wright is a banker. Marcia McAllister is a teacher. Tim Lewis is a cable repairman. All have weight issues that have spiralled out of control. They turn to Daisy, the director ofWeight Loss World, whose techniques are unconventional at best. Daisy makes each of her patients sign a contract that stipulates they cannot leave until they have reached their stated goal weights (which are always dangerously low). Once inside, everybody wants to return to their lives as soon and as thin as possible, so the pressure is on and the clock is ticking.
The world of COME TUMBLING DOWN is a strange world of spy vs. spy where things are not quite as they seem.
Jack and Jill go out on a blind date, which goes awkwardly, even disastrously, well! They have a nice dinner, some uncomfortable “first date” conversation, an even more awkward first kiss…and then a dark stranger pulls a knife on Jack. Who is this dark stranger? How does Jill know her? Are Jill’s feelings for Jack real? As Jack gets closer to Jill, he finds himself tumbling into a much more complex world than first meets the eye and he has to either step up and fulfill his purpose or suffer the consequences of inaction. Continue reading Come Tumbling Down: Toronto 2010 Fringe Preview→
