High School High – Toronto Fringe 2019 Press Release

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Campy, hysterical and packed with talent, High School High brings you back to your youth as Alli Harris revisits high school and all the horrible people that come with it. From “Janitor Steve” to the “Bake Sale Bitch”, Harris performs ten different characters, throughout fifteen original songs, all with their own story to tell. If you loved Ashley With A Y at last year’s Toronto Fringe, High School High is sure to blow you away.
In the past, the solo musical has been awarded the Outstanding New Creation and Emerging Artist Award at the 2018 Prix Rideau Awards. Brenda Dunn of Apt613 wrote “don’t wait until Harris costs ten times as much to see. I’m sure it won’t be long.”
Playing at the Factory Theatre Studio
125 Bathurst St
 
SHOWTIMES
July 4th, 8:30pm
July 6th, 10:45pm
July 7th, 2:45pm
July 9th, 6:15pm
July 10th 4:30pm (relaxed)
July 12th, 2:30pm
July 13th, 6:15pm

Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest – Toronto Fringe 2019 Press Release

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SKETCHY ADVENTURES IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST
DEBUTS AT TORONTO FRINGE

A UNIQUE COLLISION OF SKETCH AND THEATRE IS COMING TO THE AL GREEN THEATRE AS PART OF THE
31st ANNUAL TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL!

TORONTO, ON: Playing with Fire Productions is proud to announce their inaugural production, Sketchy Adventures in the
Enchanted Forest, debuting at the Al Green Theatre as part of the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival. The show features more
than twenty characters performed by just three talented actors!

Tickets are now on sale online at Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest or by calling (416) 966-1062.

Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest follows a young woman as she embarks on an epic adventure where she
encounters much more than she bargained for.

Written and directed by Amy Slattery and Damien Gulde. Two best friends from Toronto and former members of ‘…the
Red Star Review’ a sketch comedy troupe that toured Toronto comedy clubs in 2009 and 2010. Gulde and Slattery are
also both Fringe veterans and have participated in multiple Fringe festivals.

Originally conceived as an independent series of sketches, Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest evolved into a
complete story during its development. The show combines the comedic style of sketch with the story-driven layers of a
play. It delivers the best of both the theatre and sketch comedy worlds into one show.
“We wanted a show that would appeal to both sketch comedy fans as well as people who are not as familiar with that
style…” said Slattery who is also the Producer of Playing with Fire Productions. “It is a wacky and irreverent sketch show, but also a fast-paced play that bursts with character driven comedy”.
“In the Enchanted Forest things are not always what you expect them to be, but if you never get out into the world… you
will never know what you are missing”.

About Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest:
Playing with Fire Productions in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
Sketchy Adventures in the Enchanted Forest
Written and Directed by Amy Slattery and Damien Gulde
Starring Damien Gulde, Grace Munro and Amy Slattery

Performances:
Opens July 4th runs to July 14th, 2019.
AL GREEN THEATRE, 750 Spadina Avenue (Spadina and Bloor).
Thursday July 4th, 6:30 pm
Saturday July 6th, 12:30 pm
Sunday July 7th, 8:30 pm
Tuesday July 9th, 10:15 pm
Wednesday July 10th, 5:00 pm
Thursday July 11th, 1:45 pm
Sunday July 14th, 5:15 pm
Tickets:
Purchase online: https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/sketchy-adventures-enchanted-forest
Purchase by Phone: 416-966-1062
Purchase in Person: At the AL GREEN Theatre (one hour before each performance) or during the festival at the Toronto
Fringe patio, POSTSCRIPT located in the hockey rink at 275 Bathurst Street, at Dundas.

An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns – Toronto Fringe 2019 Press Release

Set in an Escape Room An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns Tackles the Pressure on Women to Choose Between Work, Family, Creativity & Self

An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns, playing at the Tarragon Theatre Mainspace as part of the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival, centres around four 30-something women with wildly differing views on how to live a fulfilling life. When these lifelong friends find themselves trapped in a mysterious escape room, old grudges start to bubble. If they can’t get past the pain they’ve caused each other and learn to work together, they may never escape. 

“A delightful play with as many twists and turns as an escape room game—Greenwood’s writing and her cast shine,” commented Deborah Smith, Artistic Director, Scripted Toronto where it was first staged in May 2019 at the inaugural juried Scripted Toronto Festival. Written and directed by Telefilm New Voices Award-winning screenwriter Lauren Greenwood, An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns was selected as one of three finalists for the 2019 Cayle Chernin Award for Theatre Production. 

This one act screwball dramedy featuring an all-female cast and crew stars four Fringe darlings: Yvonne Addai (Overhear Saskatoon, 2018 Saskatoon Fringe), Blythe Haynes (Six Stories, Told at Night, 2018 Toronto Fringe; Mary’s Wedding, 2011 Toronto Fringe), Chantel McDonald (tears of a bullet, 2018 Toronto Fringe; Professionally Ethnic, 2017 Summerworks) and Myrthin Stagg (Me With You, 2015 Toronto Fringe; Noises Off, Soulpepper, 2016). 

Can you solve the riddles of An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns? Join us at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival for this mentally and emotionally stimulating spectacle! 

Period. Productions
in association with the Toronto Fringe Festival presents
An Atlas, A Necktie & Other Concerns
written and directed by Lauren Greenwood starring Yvonne Addai, Blythe Haynes, Chantel McDonald, Myrthin Stagg
stage managed by Duaa Zahra
sound design by Tasha Schumann

Opens July 4, 2019 runs to July 14, 2019

TARRAGON THEATRE MAINSPACE, 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto

Performances:
July 4, 10:15pm
July 5, 4:45pm
July 6, 1:15pm
July 9, 8:00pm
July 11, 9:30pm
July 13, 6:15pm
July 14, 4:15pm

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).

The Road to Damascus – Toronto Fringe 2019 Press Release

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Controversial play ‘The Road to Damascus’ comes to Toronto Fringe
 
Two men in a police station in suburban France: a police officer and a young man suspected of wanting to join a terrorist group. One defends the many opportunities given by our society, the other represents a youth lost to disillusionment. Thus begins a tense interrogation, a game of chess, with each opponent trying to throw the other one off their tracks. Their visions of the Western world confront each other, clash … who will convert whom?
 
            The Road to Damascus, by Swiss playwright Dominique Ziegler, premiered in 2015 and has played in Belgium, France and Switzerland. It is translated by David Eden, who adapted Douglas Coupland’s Life After God for the Toronto Fringe . To Hell and Back Theatre Company was founded in 2001 to take Life After God  on a Fringe festival tour from Toronto to Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria.
 
The Road to Damascus stars Daniel Coo and Ethan Saulnier.  It is directed by David Eden.  Sound design is by Dan Schaumann; lighting design is by Zie Souwand; and the fight director is Richard Comeau. The production stage manager is Zie Souwand.
 
“L’auteur ramène la fable politique a l’échelle du l’individu et frappe juste”  L’Agenda  (The author brings the political fable to the scale of the individual and hits the mark)
  
                                To Hell and Back Theatre Company
In association with the Toronto Fringe Festival presents
 
The Road to Damascus

July 5th at 6:45pm                                                          July 7th at 10pm
July 8th at 4:15pm                                                          July 9th at 7pm
July 10th at 8:15p                                               July 12th at 4:15pm
July 13th at 2:45pm

Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Avenue
Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
 Tickets: Can be purchased at the venue or 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).

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under – Toronto Fringe 2019 Press Release

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Anesti Danelis returns to the Toronto Fringe to help you bury all your existential dread…

Fresh off of a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Variety Act, musical comedian on the rise, Anesti Danelis returns to the Toronto Fringe Festival to premier Six Frets Under, a delightfully dark musical comedy tackling the happy highs and lousy lows of our everyday lives.

Having been surrounded by loss this past year, Anesti Danelis took refuge in his guitar and created a brand new hour of comedic music.

Directed by Tricia Black (The Second City, She the People, Extravaganza Eleganza) this brand new hour reflects on all the fun moments in life like: identity crisis, invincible youth,
inescapable rumours, stealing from work, goats? and more! Now with 100% more piano and violin.

With a style snuggled between Tim Minchin and Flight of the Conchords, Anesti Danelis’ unique concert comedy and music experience asks life’s biggest questions like ‘why are we here?’ and ‘if people print their missing cat posters in black and white, do they even want to find their cats?’ in hopes to help us understand
our existence and toe-tap that existential dread away.

About Anesti Danelis
Anesti Danelis (writer, performer) is a Toronto-based musical comedian who has charmed sold-out audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with his unique blend of optimistic yet dark, witty but ridiculous humour. His 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show ‘Songs for a New World Order’ was nominated for Best Comedy Show in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards and now lives as an album on Spotify and iTunes.

He was recently nominated for Best Variety Act in the Canadian Comedy Awards, and he just taped his television debut for CBC at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

About Tricia Black
Tricia Black (Director) is the artistic producer of a Broadway World award winning theatre company, Tweed & Company Theatre, where she has written and composed several new Canadian musical works. Currently she can be seen as part of The Second City’s second edition of the smash hit She the People, and in the
upcoming remount of the hit queer sketch comedy Extravaganza Eleganza.

‘Brilliant blend of sharp wit, optimism, and perfectly dark humour’
★★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

‘Anesti Daniels delivers the funny with a hefty side of heart. Not only were his songs expertly composed, the
lyrics were freaking hilarious’ Mooney On Theatre

Written and Performed by: Anesti Danelis, Directed by: Tricia Black
Location: Tranzac Club Tiki Room: 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7
Performances: July 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th at 8:00 PM — July 6th, 13th at 5:30 PM & 7:00 PM
Tickets: $13 ($11 ticket, $2 service charge) and can be purchased online at (www.fringetoronto.com), by
telephone (416-966-1062), or from the Festival Box Office at Scadding Court (707 Dundas St. W.).
Accessibility: This venue is wheelchair accessible
*Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and latecomers are never admitted.