The Stain Forgiveness or Retribution, which would you choose?
Could you build a relationship with the person who hurt you the most?
The Stain is the transformative story of Mary, a woman whose son was tragically murdered, and Jason, the boy who killed him. Mary tries to make sense of her loss but doesn’t know how. Jason is ready to commit to a life on the margins and give up on any hope for something better. As a last resort, Mary attempts to confront Jason in prison in hopes of finally getting closure. Are forgiveness, compassion and understanding obsolete in a society that defines justice as
retribution?
With the Canadian Conservative party’s Omnibus Crime bill recently coming into effect, it is important, now more than ever, to consider alternative options to institutional and retributive methods of justice. Prison sentences rarely amount to a sense of justice for the victim or a lower rate of recidivism for the offender. So often in the criminal justice system, victims and offenders are never given the chance to confront one another. They are separate parts of a faceless system
that institutionalizes justice. Continue reading The Stain – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
Numbers: a captivating look at a story of love, loss and hope
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“I was here and this is my story.” Her message is simple. In sixty minutes, you will be taken on a journey of love, fear and hope told through the eyes of one young girl in WWll.
The numbering of persons in Jewish law is forbidden as it destroys the uniqueness of the individual and reduces a person, to a statistic. It was a convenient method of extermination. Lives stripped of identities and dreams. Continue reading Numbers – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
Brainiac Five Presents: An Eclectic Aggregation of Erudition and Information
Until now, Brainiac Five has lived under the radar. These men and women have gone about their day-to-day business, leading regular lives, blending in with society. They have been your Sunday school teacher, your date to the Yacht Club annual social, or running your local used book sale. They have been authoring your favourite comics and meticulously writing in to your local newspaper. All the while, they have been meeting to expand their own minds, minds which were already prodigiously gifted.
Now, they come to the Toronto Fringe Festival to share their knowledge and experience with you. Brainiac Five Presents: An Eclectic Aggregation of Erudition and Information is on at the Tarragon Extra Space (30 Bridgeman Avenue) for the duration of Fringe. Each of seven shows will focus on a different theme, such as the creation of a great work of art, or a scientific innovation. This completely improvised show is bound to regale you with hilarious, wildly inaccurate facts of the world created on the spot by the cast, and even goes so far as to present the invention of the Brainiac Five; The Cognoprojector Psychotron, a helmet which allows time travel. Continue reading An Eclectic Aggregation of Erudition and Information – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
Starwipe Comedy presents A Brief History of History: a 3-Disk Box Set
Starwipe Comedy is beyond proud to bring you our first (and best) sketch comedy show. Coursing through the history of the world, we bring to light some of the most perplexing and hilarious events that have taken place in the past- at least as we see them.
ENGLAND is the play on the “fringe” of Fringe: both literally and figuratively
ENGLAND is a quirky yet intellectual site-specific play, teetering right on the edge of the Fringe
boundary. Audience members who make the trip to 401 Richmond can expect a unique theatrical
experience: art tour meets existential drama.
The 2012 Fringe production marks the Toronto Premiere of Tim Crouch’s critically-acclaimed play for art galleries. Two art gallery “guides” lead audience members on a tour of the historically rich art space of 401 Richmond—formerly a factory producing lithography on tin ware (which remain part of the ceiling in the building to this day). Continue reading England – Toronto Fringe 2012 Press Release→
