July 11, 2011
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2011 Toronto Fringe Festival
The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award winning musical, The Drowsy Chaperone.
The festival runs from the sixth of July to the seventeenth, and one of the entries, Gravestone Posse, is co-written by well known Toronto playwright Paul Koster, who also acts in the production.
The venue is the Hart House Map Room at Toronto University, in downtown Toronto, which is also the home of CUIT, the campus and community radio station of Toronto University, located in glorious…
…downtown Toronto!
Comments (6)
I’m volunteering down at the National Track League when it hits Varsity centre so I may bring my friends around for a night out
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@JoeytheGenie - That would be great. Historically, Toronto has always been big on The Arts, most especially as a publishing centre, but it’s only good if you belong to the Established and Recognised, if you know what I mean. Indie has to struggle in Toronto.
@darkoozeripple - I’ve always had interest in attending a Hart House event so this is prefect, I’m actually going to UofT next year and I’m super excited about delving a bit more into the indie arts.
@JoeytheGenie - Copy and paste of an email from Paul Koster..ExternalClass DIV{;}Hey all, just a reminder that from July 6-17, I’ll be performing in the Toronto Fringe as part of The Canadian Space Opera Company’s Gravestone Posse. And if you need added incentive, CanPages has called a Must See show!!http://www.canpages.ca/blog/?p=5539As well, Tracy Shae-Porter (fellow performer) and I did an interview on The More The Merrier (CIUT Radio, 87.5FM) last Saturday and the interview is currently on the Web (it will be hosted until Monday). Click the link below and skip forward to the 37:00 minute mark.http://www.ciut.fm/index.php/shows-2/the-more-the-merrier-tmtm/We’re a limited seat venue (60 seats) so it’s recommended you visit the Fringe website and order your tickets early (we sold out 3/4 of our last run). I’d hate for you to miss out.http://fringetix.ca/scripts/max/2000/maxweb.exe?ACTION=ORDERGoogle maps will show you the best route to the venue. For your destination, type in the address: CIUT Radio, 7 Hart House Circle (in the Map Room, at University of Toronto).Hope to see you!!!Paul
A lot sure happens in Toronto!
@Roadlesstaken - Oh, we are all Big People, who go Big Places, Often in Big cars, with other Big People. And what happens at thoise Big Places? Big Things, obviously. That was totally obscure; you would have to be very familiar withn CS Lewis to understand. Meanwhile on the internet… Due to little activity on Xanga last weekend, I wasn’t able to rally much support for John Lindensmith’s new novel by means of my blog… http://darkoozeripple.xanga.com/751217708/hell-a-new-novel-by-john-r-lindensmith/ He, a young underpaid (actually, not paid at all) writer is part of the XAC, the Xangan Author’s collective, and lives in a Third World Country (North Dakota) where children can’t afford shoes to eat. Do you feel like throwing your weight behind this? Recs, comments, whatever. He is in paper back, and now on Kindle at $2.99. I started reading my copy last night, and it looks good, based on the dreadful reality of high school massacres, a type of establishment he has only just escaped from.