From Press Release

The Weight of it All

Comedian Gillian Bartolucci measures up in The Weight of It All

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Held at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (Venue #11)

16 Ryerson Ave, Toronto, ON

Running time: 50 Minutes

The Weight of It All is an original solo sketch comedy revue written and performed by Gillian Bartolucci (The Sketchersons, Just For Laughs, JFL42), directed by Carly Heffernan (Second City Toronto, Second City Chicago, She The People), and features a uterine fibroid that makes Gillian look 5 months pregnant! The Weight of It All is a hormonal journey that makes pit stops along body image, disordered eating, fertility issues, the new sex ed curriculum, and death, all while Mercury is in retrograde! The Weight of It All is a mission to find value in the things that cannot be measured with a scale. This show will make you laugh, cry, and order fries with no shame!

The weight is almost over! 

SHOW TIMES:

THURS // JULY 4th – 6:00PM

FRI // JULY 5th – 6:30PM

SAT // JULY 6th – 3:15PM

SUN // JULY 7th – 2:45PM

MON // JULY 8th – 10:45PM

TUES // JULY 9th – 3:15PM

THURS // JULY 11th – 8:00PM

SAT // JULY 13th – 4:30PM

FEATURING:

Gillian Bartolucci

Gillian Bartolucci is an alumnus of the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts as well as a graduate of the Toronto Second City Conservatory Program. Gillian has performed at Just For Laughs (Rapp Battlez), JFL42 (New Faces: Character Showcase), and both Toronto and Montreal (Best of the Fest), Sketch Comedy Festivals. Gillian has written two one-woman sketch revues, Full Body Pull, and The Weight of It All for the Toronto Fringe, and has made NOW Magazine’s Top 10 Comedy Show lists numerous times. Currently Gillian performs weekly with the Canadian Comedy Award-winning sketch collective The Sketchersons, and Bad Dog Theatre’s Drosselmeyer. Gillian is also a part the Toronto based arts collective Echo Productions where she performed in Charlie: Son of Man, and Echo and Narcissus. Most recently Gillian choreographed the Second City Toronto revue She The People, which is now on stage!

NNNNN – NOW Review for PANACEA

“Brave and Ballsy” – Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine

“Gillian Bartolucci sweats through 50 minutes of sketch comedy, taking the audience all the way from high-energy belly laughs to more thoughtful moments…” – Crystal Wood, Mooney On Theatre 

CREATIVE TEAM:

Carly Heffernan (Director)

Carly Heffernan is an award winning writer, director, actor, improviser and Capricorn. She is an alumna of the Second City Toronto where she wrote and performed in four main stage revues. She became the youngest resident director in Second City Toronto history when she directed the critically acclaimed, main stage hit, Come What Mayhem! She co-wrote, Second City’s Guide to the Symphony, which played such historic venues as Roy Thomson Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center. Carly has written for Second Jen (City), The Irrelevant Show (CBC Radio), George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (CBC), Canadian Air Farce NYE (CBC), Canadian Air Farce 150 (CBC), Almost Genius (CMT), SketchersonsTV (Rogers) and others. Select acting credits include, Second Jen, The Other Kingdom, Lost & Found Music Studios,Spun Out, Odd Squad, But I’m Chris Jericho, The L.A. Complex, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and she’s quite good at charades.

Matthew Keevins (Stage Manager)

Matt is a graduate of the Comedy Writing and Performance program at Humber. He is a performer, writer and stage manager with stage management credits that include, ‘Ted and Lisa’s Date Me,’ Melody Johnsons one woman show: ‘Person of Interest,’ and most recently 2018 fringe hit ‘Prank!’ Matt uses this bio on all his dating profiles. It doesn’t work.

TICKETS

• Tickets: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/weight-it-all
• On sale June 6th!

MEDIA

• Facebook (Page)

https://www.facebook.com/itsgillianbartolucci/

• Facebook (Event)
  https://www.facebook.com/events/1150432111808543/

From Press Release

MadFandango Theatre Collective

presents

The Trophy Hunt by Trina Davies

Go on a hunt to stalk something wild and dangerous…you just might find it.

Parker has waited his whole life for this trip. Jan makes this same trip every day, she doesn’t have a choice. Soraya wishes they’d all leave her alone to enjoy the sun. Amy just wants a good review on Trip Advisor. The Trophy Hunt is an exploration of who eats who in our canned hunt of a world where everything is observed, everything a zoo.

Based on the ‘rolling world premiere’ concept used by the National New Play Network in the U.S., separate teams of professional artists will interpret and present The Trophy Hunt in different ways at Fringe Festivals across the country this summer (Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto Vancouver, and Victoria). Go on a safari in the heart of Toronto with MadFandango Theatre Collective’s site-specific, roving production at 401 Richmond St. West.

This world premiere play is written by Governor General Literary Award finalist, Trina Davies: The Romeo Initiative, Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell(National Arts Centre and The Grand Theatre), directed by multi Sterling Award nominee/winner, Nancy McAlear: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Citadel Theatre), Hello From Bertha and Talk to me Like the Rain (Shaw Festival), and starring Dora and Canadian Comedy Award winner, Richard Beaune, recent George Brown Theatre graduate, Bonnie Ings, Priya Laishram, and Hillary Warden.

MadFandango Theatre Collective

In association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents

The Trophy Hunt

Written by Trina Davies

Directed by Nancy McAlear

Starring: Richard Beaune, Priya Laishram, Hillary Warden, Bonnie Ings

Opens July 4th – July 13th

At 401 Richmond St. West Toronto ON M5V 3A8

Performances

There are multiple shows per night as follows:

Thursday July 4 @ 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM
Friday July 5 @ 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM
Saturday July 6 @ 6PM, 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM
Thursday July 11 @ 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM
Friday July 12 @ 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM
Saturday July 13 @ 6PM, 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM

Tickets

Purchase online: fringetoronto.com

By Phone: 416-966-1062

In Person: During the festival at POSTSCRIPT, the patio at The Toronto Fringe. Located in the Hockey Rink at 275 Bathurst St. or at the door 1 hour before the performance at 401 Richmond St. West (Richmond and Spadina).

From Press Release

Creating Dialogue Through Art – Community Theatre Intimately Explores  Mass Shootings & Survivors Guilt in The December Man (L’homme de décembre)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto, ON – As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Danforth shooting in Toronto, the creative team at Theatre@Eastminster felt compelled to present The December Man (L’homme de décembre), by Canadian playwright Colleen Murphy as part of the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Murphy’s play is set in the aftermath of the 1989 Montreal Massacre and is a harrowing exploration of the supports necessary to help individuals impacted by this kind of horrific violence, and what happens when these supports are absent. Throughout the play, opportunities for healing and discussion are offered . . . and ultimately missed as the fictional Fournier family suffers the aftermath in private.

Just as the Montreal Massacre is permanently etched on the Canadian consciousness, so too, are the events of last summer still rippling through the Toronto community. Creative Director, Jennifer CD Thomson, a Danforth resident & high-school drama teacher, was called by the messaging of the play. “After the shooting, I felt compelled, as an artist, educator and mother, to help my children and students learn how to cope, as well as the broader community.”

Following each performance, audience members are invited to participate in a discussion on the themes explored in the work, facilitated by expert partners. Theater@Eastminster’s creative team hopes that, by sparking discussion in a safe space, they are offering a rare and unique opportunity for the community to come together for open dialogue.

Talk backs will be facilitated by the Sashbear Foundation, which provides support and training for families impacted by emotional dysregulation, joined by Mark Farrant, an expert on the subject of PTSD and violent crime, and East End United’s reverend, Sarah Miller.

Opens July 4, 2019 runs to July 14, 2019

EASTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH COMMUNITY SPACE
310 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON M4K 1N6
Venue Details: Accessible – Limited (Narrow Hallways) / Air Conditioned – No / Outdoor – No

Performances

July 4, 6:00pm I July 5 7:30pm I July 6, 4:30pm I July 12, 7:30pm I July 13, 6:00pm I July 14, 1:00pm

Runtime: 90 minutes

Tickets Available Now!
Online: fringetoronto.com I By Phone: 416-966-1062 I In Person: During the festival at POSTSCRIPT (the patio at the Toronto Fringe) located in the Hockey Rink at 275 Bathurst Street

Creative Team:

Directed by Jennifer CD Thomson

Starring Stephen Flett, Kris Langille and Jonas Trottier

Producer: Shawn McDonald
Voice & Dialect Coach: Christine Berg

Stage Manager: Adele Thomson

Assistant Stage Manager: Katie Norman

Set design: Ron McKay

Lighting Design: Chris Bennett

From Press Release

Breakaway Entertainment Presents ‘Tales Of A Cocktail’

The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately sent to his demise and his brilliant strategy
for revenge against those who betrayed him. Dashing young mobster Edward is a guileless and honest
young man whose plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes and live a better life are abruptly shattered when
his best friend who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Told through a Chicago 1920s lens this
dance adaptation brings to life the tale of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Conceptualized over the last year and a half years, Artistic Director Adam Martino brought together 9 of
the city’s most exciting dancers/theatre performers over the month of June to create this 1 hour production
telling the story of Alexandre Dumas’ book The Count Of Monte Cristo through Breakaway’s unique
theatre dance lens. Winners of the 2018 Broadway World Toronto Award for ‘Best Fringe Musical’;
Breakaway Entertainment founded in 2012 has embarked on its biggest production yet aiming to bring to
life new and exciting dance theatre. Connecting with this medieval story and telling it through a 1920s
Prohibition era Chicago dance lens.

The cast includes Angela Joyce, Josh St. John, Alexa Stavro, Kristina Roberts, Colin Ougler, Sebastian
Hirtenstien, Alayna Kellet (Associate Choreographer), Leah Cameron (Associate Choreographer).
Choreographed by Adam Martino and Rob Sapienza (Director). Past cast credits include – Fallsview
Casino, Drayton Entertainment, Koba Entertainment, Next Stage Theatre Festival, Much Music, MTV
Canada, MMVAs, Red Sky Performance, National Ballet Of Canada, Theatre New Brunswick, High
Society Cabaret, Quinte Ballet and many more.

Breakaway Entertainment is excited to bring this show to the Toronto Fringe Festival.

Breakaway Entertainment in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
‘Tales Of A Cocktail’
Choreographed by Adam Martino Director Rob Sapienza
featuring Angela Joyce, Josh St. John, Alexa Stavro, Kristina Roberts, Colin Ougler, Sebastian
Hirtenstien, Alayna Kellet (Associate Choreographer), Leah Cameron (Associate Choreographer).
lighting design by Adam Martino
stage managed by Kaitlind Gorman

Opens July 4th runs to July 14th
Al Green Theatre – 750 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2J2, Canada
60 mins
Fri 5th Jul 8:15 pm
Sat 6th Jul 5:45 pm
Mon 8th Jul 6:15 pm
Tue 9th Jul 8:30 pm
Wed 10th Jul 10:15 pm
Fri 12th Jul 2:45 pm
Sun 14th Jul 12:00 pm

Tickets:
Al Green Theatre – 750 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2J2, Canada
Purchase online: fringetoronto.com
By Phone: 416-966-1062
In Person: During the festival at POSTSCRIPT, the patio at the Toronto Fringe. Located in the Hockey
Rink at 275 Bathurst Street (Dundas + Bathurst).

From Press Release

A PRINCE that claims “NO COLLUSION”, a FAIRY GODMOTHER out on bail for insider trading, a PRINCESS that works for the BRUTE SQUAD, and a whole lot of BOBS.

THE PRINCESS IS THE PAUPER is a rollicking fast-paced roller coaster of a political satire. Set in a mythical kingdom, after a popular people’s rebellion has ousted the former fairy tale administration. Our former Princess and recently-ousted King have to quickly adjust to the new normal, where the not-so-bright mob has taken over, and a less-than-noble ex-prince pulls the strings.

THE PRINCESS IS THE PAUPER is a brand spanking new play! First written in Toronto, then re-written 9000 kilometres away in Uruguay, specifically for this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.

IT’S A BIG BIG BIG CAST! 12 actors playing over 40 characters in 60 minutes. Guaranteeing that the audience will never get bored. There’s lots of movements with over 30 scenes, tons of character changes, and a WTF interlude to boot. We’ve got a Princess and a King, a conniving ex-Prince, two fairy Godmothers, a Mirror, a Court Lamenter, a Witch, a giant cow, and a Mob full of Bobs.

Tant Pis Productions, in association with THE TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL presents:

THE PRINCESS IS THE PAUPER

CAST: Katherine Norris, Julian Monardo, Jennifer Wren, Candi Zell, Jarrod Clegg, Noor Alimran,
Yago Mesquita, Zenia Sethna, Victoria Brennan, Lianne Winterburn, and David Kovacs

DIRECTOR: Lianne Winterburn

PLAYWRIGHT: David Kovacs

STAGE MANAGER: Luanne Walton

COSTUMES BY: Sonia Welsh and Sylvia Welsh

PAST ACHIEVEMENTS: The playwright once zipped up Barbara Frum

Open July 4 and runs to July 13

At ST. VLADIMIR’S THEATRE’S

620 Spadina Avenue

Performances:

Thu 4th Jul 8:30 pm
Sat 6th Jul 10:15 pm
Sun 7th Jul 6:15 pm
Mon 8th Jul 2:30 pm
Wed 10th Jul 8:30 pm
Thu 11th Jul 9:45 pm
Sat 13th Jul 2:30 pm

Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.

Tickets:

Purchase online: fringetoronto.com

By Phone: 416-966-1062

In Person: During the festival at POSTSCRIPT, the patio at the Toronto Fringe. Located in the Hockey Rink at 275 Bathurst Street (Dundas + Bathurst).