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The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go! – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release

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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Allison Beula Productions presents The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go!

An ultra enthusiastic, hyper-speed a-go-go keen teen musical that is a loving parody of the Beach Party movies of the 1960’s. A triple threat cast, a live vintage surf band (“The von Drats”) and original tunes written by Composer Jeffery Straker and Director/Choreographer Allison Beula round out the beach party fun! Patrons’ Pick at the 2011 Toronto Fringe and presented at the Best of the Fringe Uptown. Continue reading The Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go! – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release →

Loving the Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release

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As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Ecce Homo Theatre presents Loving a Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert

Award winning company Ecce Homo Theatre (Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical, The Pastor Phelps Project) present an updated remount of Alistair Newton’s  Loving the Stranger or how to recognize an invert based on the incredible life story of Montreal’s Peter Flinsch: theatre designer, visual artist, and survivor of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, arrested in 1942 for kissing a friend at a Christmas party.  Continue reading Loving the Stranger or How to Recognize an Invert – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release →

Living with Henry – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release

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 As part of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, Beyond  Boundaries presents Living with Henry

Featured as part of the Best of Fringe Uptown 2011, Living With  Henry is a new musical drama that explores the fear,  complications and realities of living with HIV/AIDS today.  Though it is no longer a death sentence, the once carefree  Michael must learn to come to terms with living with his chronic  condition to gain a much deeper understanding of self and the  complex world around him.

Acclaimed for its honesty, boldness and inventiveness, NOW  Magazine gives Living With Henry 5 N’s and states, “This fully  staged chamber musical, imaginatively directed by Donna Marie  Baratta, seems already primed for a professional run. Told  through songs – sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking – the  show has the ring of authenticity and the six-person cast gives passionate, committed performances.” Continue reading Living with Henry – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release →

Hypnogogic Logic – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release

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 THE NEXT STAGE OF DREAMING:

Montreal’s Uncalled For Bring Their Sleeper Hit

Hypnogogic Logic to the Next Stage Theatre Festival

TORONTO WAKE UP! Montreal’s premiere comedy troupe Uncalled For tickle your frontal lobe with their award-winning creation Hypnogogic Logic; an energetic, refreshingly intelligent and endlessly hilarious trip through the world of dreams. The show is one of 8 plays invited to perform at the 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival, Toronto’s fastest-growing theatre event. Uncalled For Presents: Hypnogogic Logic runs from January 5–15 at the Factory Theatre Mainspace.

The company’s fifth scripted show, Hypnogogic Logic won Uncalled For their second Just For Laughs Award for the best comedy at the Montreal Fringe. The show is a clever, charming and tightly constructed exploration of the hypnogogic; the hallucinatory state between waking and sleeping. In Uncalled For’s rich collective imagination, that mental state becomes an absurd and inspired dreamscape, filled with dictionary preachers, post-apocalyptic cooking shows, ticklish piano teachers and a reincarnated Freddie Mercury.  Continue reading Hypnogogic Logic – Toronto Next Stage 2012 Press Release →