Here are all the details for the Fringe Show I’m stage managing (more on that part later). Come see us! We’re playing at the TRANZAC, which is right next door to the Beer Tent. In fact, you can even bring your beer from the tent into our show and enjoy them together. If you need more reason than that to attend, keep reading. Because there are Communists, too. And singing. And an Austrian. If the beer is enough for you, scroll down for time and date info. And come say hello after the show!
Also, all the awesome photos are by Meredith Whitten.
In 1931, Tim Buck, leader of Canada’s Communist Party was jailed under Section 98, a controversial law that allowed the government to arbitrarily jail dissidents. A group of artists that opposed the erosion of civil rights by Bennett’s Conservative government in the face of a global economic crisis formed The Progressive Arts Club. Their production, Eight Men Speak, played to a sold out house of 1500 Torontonians before the government threatened to pull the license of any theatre that performed the play again. Soon after, The Conservative Government was defeated and Buck was released from the Kingston Penitentiary. His release inspired a sold-out Maple Leaf Gardens to welcome him home.
Tim Buck 2 looks at all these events as well as relevant contemporary issues in the style of a Living Newspaper, a common technique used by many progressive-minded theatre companies in the 1930s to bring fellow citizens information and analysis of current events.
Co-conspirators: Margaret Evans, Jody Hewston, Melissa Hood, Greta Papageorgiu, Ben Sanders, Andrew Zadel
Director: Michael Wheeler, Asst. Director: Laura Nordin, Stage Manager: Me!, Script Coordinator: Aislinn Rose, Sound and Light Design: Verne Good, Movement: Pam Johnson, Dramaturgy: Alex Fallis
Playing at The Fringe Club @ The Tranzac: 292 Brunswick Avenue (Just South of Bloor.)
Dates and Times:
Thu July, 2 6:15 PM
Sat July, 4 2:30 PM
Sun July, 5 7:45 PM
Wed July, 8 6:00 PM
Fri July, 10 4:15 PM
Sun July, 12 2:30 PM
Tickets Available:
By phone: 416-966-1062;
On line: www.fringetoronto.com
In Advance: Fringe Club 292 Brunswick;
At the door: 1 hour before each show.
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2 comments:
Beer AND political theatre. I'd so be there. I hope all goes well.
Twenty days without a post! I am jones-ing here. I hope all this busy is worth my withdrawal symptoms. :)
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