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Natural Progression Theatre’s Stalled has gone through a thorough development process, from staged reading to workshop performances and now on to the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival.
Ashley Steeves, Phillip Psutka, and Lindsay Bellaire trace the production’s progress and their approach to facing the challenges that have come with preparing the play for its Fringe audience.
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With so many options in the Toronto Fringe Festival, it’s sometimes hard to get one’s mind beyond judging by a title, even when it includes a nod to Stanley Kubrick. Fortunately, you’re a click away from hearing about Katharine McLeod‘s solo show, which could open and even elevate your mind.
My High-Heeled Life: Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Love My Stilettos may encourage you to be just as unapologetic about the things you love – and there’s a chance that you’ll add this show to that list.
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Burt and Werneburg – the company founded by Hallie and Kate, respectively – presents a two-woman adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that will be part of the upcoming Toronto Fringe Festival.
In choosing a director for Elizabeth – Darcy, they didn’t want a fanboy. Hopefully, they didn’t mind that quality in a podcast interviewer, this time.
There’ll be an added degree of authenticity bestowed on their work by their historic performance venue, Campbell House.
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Royal Porcupine Productions, who pride themselves on picking and presenting prickly plays, are proud participants in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
Company members and performers Annemieke Wade and Cameron Johnston share the company’s history and reveal some details about the process involved in bringing David Ives’s Saint Francis Talks to the Birds to the stage.
You’re also invited to their fundraiser(which happens to coincide with the company’s General Manager’s birthday).
And, in honour of Fathers’ Day, here are Mieke’s father’s enduring words regarding their Fringe play’s titular holy man:
“Saint Francis really, really loved animals.”
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Tarradiddle Productions will be presenting their collectively created production Honest Aesop’s Fables as a part of the FringeKids! programming at this year’s 25th anniversary edition of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
The play’s director Teodoro Dragonieri and Luke LaRocque, one of its actors and a co-producer, discuss collective creation, theatre for young audiences, and modernizing source material from antiquity.
More production details are also available here.