A Welcome

Welcome to the 20th annual SummerWorks Theatre Festival. Toronto’s Indie Theatre and Arts Festival.

Over the past three years, SummerWorks has evolved from an indie-theatre festival to an indie-arts festival. I believe that it’s important to continue to explore the necessity and relevance of the theatrical form: how can it contribute, reflect and parallel the world we’re living in? I became interested in what happens to the form when directly paralleled with other forms. Call it a social experi- ment, if you will – a laboratory on relevance and learning. Where do our forms intersect, and how can we use this to our advantage? We’ve been really excited by the results of this evolution, and this year’s Festival continues to build on these principles. Our Theatre line-up is very exciting. The work is strong, diverse, and brave. We also welcome four very impressive shows from outside Ontario in our National Series. See them all if you can. You won’t be disappointed. What are the ingredients that enable certain musicians to fill rooms and create that rare, emotional electricity? There are some obvious answers like: alcohol and rowdy behaviour – but there are also layers to this question that are connected to the visceral nature of the form. This year’s Music Series is the best yet. I hope you’ll take it in. The new Performance Bar brings three different art forms together on the same stage nightly over the course of the Festival. The glue? The National Theatre of the World. These are three of the smartest, most talented perfor- mance improvisers in the city, and they are hosting what they call: Fiasco Playhouse. This is their canvas to allow absolutely anything to happen. Every evening will be entirely different, endlessly strange and totally original. We began SummerWalks last year as means of finding a new point of connection. SummerWorks takes place on the Queen West Strip, but what the hell is the Queen West Strip? What is this land, and how are we in relation- ship to it? This year, we’ll continue to explore our own identities by reflecting on the identity of the land we’re in, on, and around. As we get older, we tend to get really serious about everything. In an attempt at foiling adulthood, the new Playground, helmed by designer Beth Kates and Ben Chiasson, with free events curated by Natasha Greenblatt and Cara Gee, blends adult ideas while encouraging child-like-curiosities. Look also for Beth and Ben’s Festival- wide installation, connecting our four venues. Adult and real children welcome! Welcome to the Festival. Try to behave. But not too much.

Michael Rubenfeld Artistic Producer Monnet Design B 1 Welcome

Welcome to the 20th annual SummerWorks Theatre Festival. Toronto’s Indie Theatre and Arts Festival.

Over the past three years, SummerWorks has evolved from an indie-theatre festival to an indie-arts festival. I believe that it’s important to continue to explore the necessity and relevance of the theatrical form: how can it contribute, reflect and parallel the world we’re living in? I became interested in what happens to the form when directly paralleled with other forms. Call it a social experi- ment, if you will – a laboratory on relevance and learning. Where do our forms intersect, and how can we use this to our advantage? We’ve been really excited by the results of this evolution, and this year’s Festival continues to build on these principles. Our Theatre line-up is very exciting. The work is strong, diverse, and brave. We also welcome four very impressive shows from outside Ontario in our National Series. See them all if you can. You won’t be disappointed. What are the ingredients that enable certain musicians to fill rooms and create that rare, emotional electricity? There are some obvious answers like: alcohol and rowdy behaviour – but there are also layers to this question that are connected to the visceral nature of the form. This year’s Music Series is the best yet. I hope you’ll take it in. The new Performance Bar brings three different art forms together on the same stage nightly over the course of the Festival. The glue? The National Theatre of the World. These are three of the smartest, most talented perfor- mance improvisers in the city, and they are hosting what they call: Fiasco Playhouse. This is their canvas to allow absolutely anything to happen. Every evening will be entirely different, endlessly strange and totally original. We began SummerWalks last year as means of finding a new point of connection. SummerWorks takes place on the Queen West Strip, but what the hell is the Queen West Strip? What is this land, and how are we in relation- ship to it? This year, we’ll continue to explore our own identities by reflecting on the identity of the land we’re in, on, and around. As we get older, we tend to get really serious about everything. In an attempt at foiling adulthood, the new Playground, helmed by designer Beth Kates and Ben Chiasson, with free events curated by Natasha Greenblatt and Cara Gee, blends adult ideas while encouraging child-like-curiosities. Look also for Beth and Ben’s Festival- wide installation, connecting our four venues. Adult and real children welcome! Welcome to the Festival. Try to behave. But not too much.

Michael Rubenfeld Artistic Producer Monnet Design B 1 About SummerWorks Ticket Information

History Selection Jury Ticket Prices Theatre Policies And Procedures In 1991, five friends – Benj Gallander, Greg Holmgren, Carol Pauker, Joanne Falck, David Oiye & Michael Rubenfeld $10 per performance 1. No latecomers. Rob Sherwood and Ben Stadelmann – came together to put on the $25 for a 3-Play Pass* 2. No refunds.** first SummerWorks Theatre Festival. The decision to mount a new Venue Teams 3. No re-entry. $55 for a 7-Play Pass* 4. Shows start on time. fringe-style festival was a response to what was seen as a growing, Only seventy-five 7-Play Passes are available, so buy early under-represented small theatre community. From 2000 to 2004, Factory Theatre Mainspace 5. Performances are a maximum of 75 minutes, unless otherwise noted. Lighting Designer: under the direction of Franco Boni, the Festival made significant Aaron Kelly $75 for a 10-Play Pass* 6. No photographs or video recording. Technicians: changes through a gradual transition from a lottery system to a fully Jamie Monteiro & Kevin MacLeod Only thirty 10-Play Passes are available, so buy early 7. The venue box offices accept cash only. 8. Any unclaimed tickets will be released five minutes before the show. juried Festival. In 2005, the Festival came under the leadership of Factory Theatre Studio $5 for SummerWalks Tours / $12 for a 3-Walk Pass* Artistic Producers Keira Loughran and Kimahli Powell, who together Lighting Designer: Raha Javanfar 9. Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, etc. in the theatres. *Passes go on sale August 5 at 4pm at the Factory Mainspace Box Office. launched the Canadian Pavilion (National Series). In 2007, Keira Technicians: Bryan Eaton & Shawn Henry **For Offsite shows that are rained out, the following are our refund policies: took on full responsibility for the Festival as sole Artistic Producer. Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace If you purchased a ticket “at the door,” please bring your ticket to the booth Passes In January 2008, Michael Rubenfeld became the Artistic Producer Lighting Designer: Peter Eaton at which you purchased it on the same day as the rained out performance of the Festival, bringing with him a love for theatre and music, and his Technicians: Peter Eaton & John Thomson Passes are redeemed for tickets on a first-come, first-served basis and we will refund your ticket. desire to explore art as a tool for both community and cultural evolu- and are subject to availability. Passes are non-transferable. Pass holders tion. As the largest juried festival in Canada featuring predominantly Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace will be required to sign for their tickets. If you purchased an advance ticket for an Offsite show with a credit New Canadian plays, SummerWorks looks to uniquely reflect Toronto Lighting Designer: David DeGrow card, the Arts Box Office will automatically refund your money. If you Technicians: David DeGrow & Alicia Ho purchased a ticket with cash at the Arts Box Office, please bring your and Canada’s zeitgeist. How To Purchase Tickets The Theatre Centre ticket to the Arts Box Office booth for refund. Regular Tickets (same-day sales) – $10 per performance Staff Lighting Designer: Jason Golinsky Each venue box office opens one hour before the first performance Technicians: Alex Naylor & Matt Jordan Box Offices Artistic Producer: Michael Rubenfeld of the day, and will sell tickets for each show one hour prior to its Artistic Associate: Dan Daley The Lower Ossington Theatre performance time. One hour prior to each show, tickets for Factory shows are available Production Manager: Stefan Lenzi Lighting Designer: Joshua Koffman in the Factory Theatre Courtyard. Tickets for Theatre Passe Muraille Advance Tickets – $10 per performance ($5 per walking tour) Music Coordinator: Kevin Parnell Technicians: Kelly Read & Nick Rose shows are available outside Theatre Passe Muraille. Tickets for (+ $1 service fee + hst) Musical Works Producer: Tracy Michailidis The Theatre Centre shows are available in the front lobby at The Theatre Advance Tickets are available up to 10am the day before a show and Musical Works Co-Producers: Derrick Chua, George Masswohl Donors and Sponsors Centre. Tickets for The Lower Ossington Theatre are available in the can be purchased as follows: upstairs lobby on the 2nd floor. Tickets for Offsite shows are available S.L.I.P. Coordinator: Jordi Mand NOW Magazine, Dual Audio Services, Exclaim!, CBC Radio 3, TD Bank, RBC Bank, Fuzzy Logic S.L.I.P. Program Facilitators: Julie Tepperman & Aaron Willis Recordings, Anansi Press, Arts&Crafts, Toronto Fringe Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Epicure Café, Online at www.artsboxoffice.ca at the venue. SummerWalks Coordinator: Kimwun Perehinec The Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival, Steam Whistle Brewery, Playwrights Canada Press, TAPA, Dancap Productions, National Ballet of Canada, Coach House Books, Harold Green Jewish In person at the Arts Box Office (located at Theatre Passe Muraille, Associate Artist: Lindy Zucker Theatre Company, Canadian Stage Company, Cream Tangerine, Evan Tapper, Republic of Doyle, 16 Ryerson Ave., One block North East of Bathurst & Queen W.) Playground Designers: Beth Kates & Ben Chaisson Factory Theatre, David’s Tea, Bruce Hunter, Aviva Chernick, Dancemakers, The Yoga Sanctuary, Until August 1: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5pm Playground Coordinators: Natasha Greenblatt & Cara Gee Frantic City Books, Levack Block, Outside Music, Caplanskys, Soundscapes, Magnetic North August 2–15: Monday to Friday, noon to 7pm Performance Bar Associate Producer: Laurel Green Theatre Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, BakkaPhoenix Science Fiction Bookstore, Art of Time Ensemble, Art Gallery of Ontario, House Seats, Bohmer Restaurant Saturday & Sunday, 10am to 8 pm Festival Publicist (ClutchPR): Daniela Syrovy By phone by calling the Arts Box Office at 416 504 7529 Public Relations Assistant (ClutchPR): Madison Moran Thank Yous (in no particular order) for tickets & info during the hours listed above. Front of House Coordinator: Tina Meister Volunteer Coordinator: Andy Wang Maurice Galpern, Franco Boni, Gayle Longley, Annette Dukszta, Jim Wilson, Soundscapes, Music Series tickets are also on sale in advance at Rotate This Steve Pratt, James Booth, Fadi Hakim, Tim Mclaughlin, Chris Goddard, Erika Hennebury, and Soundscapes. Box Office Manager (Arts Box Office):Liz Jansen Margo Charlton, Pat Bradley, Linda Nickolson, Karla Kartl, Koba Johnson, Kim Seldoy, Sponsorship Director: Bridget Norris Chris Slorach, Eric Warner, Clinton Robinson, Evan Newman, Brian Ostrander, Mendl Up to 50% of the house can be sold in advance. The remaining half Graphic Design: Monnet Design Schwartz, Nina Arsenault, Romeo Candido, Brendan Healey, Isidra Cruz, Michael Gallaro, will always be available at the door. Web Developer: Jenny Kapichen Kelly Reid, Ame Henderson, Arts&Crafts, Brendan Bourke, Jordan Tannahill, Matthew Barber, Boys Who Say No, Emily Porter, Ron Koperdraad, Shira Swartz, Aaron Rotbard, Industry Liaison: Gillian Street National Theatre of the World, Ryan McDougall, Mike Crossley, Steve Beatty, Annie Gibson, Intern: Shaina Silver-Baird Blake Sproule, Karla Hartl, Andy McKim, Kendra Fry, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Janice Copeland, Doreen Balabanoff, Mary Ann Lee, Derrick Chua, Michael R., Yvette Nolan & Native Earth, Nicolett Jakab, Lynne Woolcott & St. Christopher House, Rikki Zucker, Board of Directors Shannon Cochrane, Emma McKenzie Hillier, Alexis McDougall, Soulpepper / The Young Centre for the Performing Arts, BB Designs, WYRD Productions, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Venues Board Chair: David Taylor Rebecca Vandevelde, Tarragon Theatre, Allan Day, Amanda Lynne Ballard, Sebastian Iwohn, Laura Clark, Vanessa Grant, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Benjamin Regan, Amy Rutherford, Jayme Spinks, Agnes Wong, Stéphane Monnet, Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace Michael McLeod, Paul Thompson David Yee, Nightwood Theatre, Stephanie Tonietto, Renna Reddie, Meredith Anderson 125 Bathurst St. Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 125 Bathurst St. Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace Awards 16 Ryerson Ave. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace All awards are adjudicated by a jury of three theatre professionals, Canadian Stage Award for Direction 16 Ryerson Ave. except the NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award, which is determined $1000 cash prize awarded for an outstanding piece of direction by ballot. Venue E: The Theatre Centre at the Festival. 1087 Queen St. W. SummerWorks Prize for Production The Spotlight Award Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café The prize is a free trip back to the Festival next year. All companies Awarded to a featured performer in a SummerWorks show. The winner (The Theatre Centre) 1087 Queen St. W. presenting new work are eligible. receives a vip pass to the Festival next year. Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre Contra Guys Award for New Work The Steam Whistle Emerging Artist Award 100A Ossington Ave. Generously supported by to SummerWorks founders, Benj Gallander $500 cash prize awarded to an artist early in their career who made Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee and Ben Stadelmann, the Contra Guys New Work Award is a $1000 an artistic impression during the Festival. 992 Queen St. W. (at Ossington Ave.) cash award presented to a theatre-maker for an outstanding new work (script or performance text). RBC Arts Professional Award Venue I: HUB 14 14 Markham St. (at Queen St. W.) National Theatre School Award for Set or Costume Design This $1000 cash prize recognizes the work, craft and dedication of an emerging arts professional. This award is made possible with the Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park This new award, sponsored by the National Theatre School, offers a support of RBC. Queen St. W. at Strachan Ave. (meet at the Strachan gates) $750 cash prize to a designer for an outstanding set or costume design. The NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award Venue K: The Performance Bar Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation (Lower Ossington Theatre, street level) 100A Ossington Ave. Also new, sponsored by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, this $750 Vote for your favourite SummerWorks production! Simply place your cash prize is awarded to an individual or company in recognition of an ticket stub in the NOW Audience Choice box as you leave the theatre. artistic choice or choices exemplifying innovation and/or artistic risk. The winner will receive $1,500 in free advertising with NOW Magazine. All shows are eligible for this prize. The winners of all nine awards will be announced at our closing night party between 11 and 11:30pm in the Factory Theatre Courtyard on Sunday, August 15.

2 3 About SummerWorks Ticket Information

History Selection Jury Ticket Prices Theatre Policies And Procedures In 1991, five friends – Benj Gallander, Greg Holmgren, Carol Pauker, Joanne Falck, David Oiye & Michael Rubenfeld $10 per performance 1. No latecomers. Rob Sherwood and Ben Stadelmann – came together to put on the $25 for a 3-Play Pass* 2. No refunds.** first SummerWorks Theatre Festival. The decision to mount a new Venue Teams 3. No re-entry. $55 for a 7-Play Pass* 4. Shows start on time. fringe-style festival was a response to what was seen as a growing, Only seventy-five 7-Play Passes are available, so buy early under-represented small theatre community. From 2000 to 2004, Factory Theatre Mainspace 5. Performances are a maximum of 75 minutes, unless otherwise noted. Lighting Designer: under the direction of Franco Boni, the Festival made significant Aaron Kelly $75 for a 10-Play Pass* 6. No photographs or video recording. Technicians: changes through a gradual transition from a lottery system to a fully Jamie Monteiro & Kevin MacLeod Only thirty 10-Play Passes are available, so buy early 7. The venue box offices accept cash only. 8. Any unclaimed tickets will be released five minutes before the show. juried Festival. In 2005, the Festival came under the leadership of Factory Theatre Studio $5 for SummerWalks Tours / $12 for a 3-Walk Pass* Artistic Producers Keira Loughran and Kimahli Powell, who together Lighting Designer: Raha Javanfar 9. Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, etc. in the theatres. *Passes go on sale August 5 at 4pm at the Factory Mainspace Box Office. launched the Canadian Pavilion (National Series). In 2007, Keira Technicians: Bryan Eaton & Shawn Henry **For Offsite shows that are rained out, the following are our refund policies: took on full responsibility for the Festival as sole Artistic Producer. Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace If you purchased a ticket “at the door,” please bring your ticket to the booth Passes In January 2008, Michael Rubenfeld became the Artistic Producer Lighting Designer: Peter Eaton at which you purchased it on the same day as the rained out performance of the Festival, bringing with him a love for theatre and music, and his Technicians: Peter Eaton & John Thomson Passes are redeemed for tickets on a first-come, first-served basis and we will refund your ticket. desire to explore art as a tool for both community and cultural evolu- and are subject to availability. Passes are non-transferable. Pass holders tion. As the largest juried festival in Canada featuring predominantly Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace will be required to sign for their tickets. If you purchased an advance ticket for an Offsite show with a credit New Canadian plays, SummerWorks looks to uniquely reflect Toronto Lighting Designer: David DeGrow card, the Arts Box Office will automatically refund your money. If you Technicians: David DeGrow & Alicia Ho purchased a ticket with cash at the Arts Box Office, please bring your and Canada’s zeitgeist. How To Purchase Tickets The Theatre Centre ticket to the Arts Box Office booth for refund. Regular Tickets (same-day sales) – $10 per performance Staff Lighting Designer: Jason Golinsky Each venue box office opens one hour before the first performance Technicians: Alex Naylor & Matt Jordan Box Offices Artistic Producer: Michael Rubenfeld of the day, and will sell tickets for each show one hour prior to its Artistic Associate: Dan Daley The Lower Ossington Theatre performance time. One hour prior to each show, tickets for Factory shows are available Production Manager: Stefan Lenzi Lighting Designer: Joshua Koffman in the Factory Theatre Courtyard. Tickets for Theatre Passe Muraille Advance Tickets – $10 per performance ($5 per walking tour) Music Coordinator: Kevin Parnell Technicians: Kelly Read & Nick Rose shows are available outside Theatre Passe Muraille. Tickets for (+ $1 service fee + hst) Musical Works Producer: Tracy Michailidis The Theatre Centre shows are available in the front lobby at The Theatre Advance Tickets are available up to 10am the day before a show and Musical Works Co-Producers: Derrick Chua, George Masswohl Donors and Sponsors Centre. Tickets for The Lower Ossington Theatre are available in the can be purchased as follows: upstairs lobby on the 2nd floor. Tickets for Offsite shows are available S.L.I.P. Coordinator: Jordi Mand NOW Magazine, Dual Audio Services, Exclaim!, CBC Radio 3, TD Bank, RBC Bank, Fuzzy Logic S.L.I.P. Program Facilitators: Julie Tepperman & Aaron Willis Recordings, Anansi Press, Arts&Crafts, Toronto Fringe Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Epicure Café, Online at www.artsboxoffice.ca at the venue. SummerWalks Coordinator: Kimwun Perehinec The Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival, Steam Whistle Brewery, Playwrights Canada Press, TAPA, Dancap Productions, National Ballet of Canada, Coach House Books, Harold Green Jewish In person at the Arts Box Office (located at Theatre Passe Muraille, Associate Artist: Lindy Zucker Theatre Company, Canadian Stage Company, Cream Tangerine, Evan Tapper, Republic of Doyle, 16 Ryerson Ave., One block North East of Bathurst & Queen W.) Playground Designers: Beth Kates & Ben Chaisson Factory Theatre, David’s Tea, Bruce Hunter, Aviva Chernick, Dancemakers, The Yoga Sanctuary, Until August 1: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5pm Playground Coordinators: Natasha Greenblatt & Cara Gee Frantic City Books, Levack Block, Outside Music, Caplanskys, Soundscapes, Magnetic North August 2–15: Monday to Friday, noon to 7pm Performance Bar Associate Producer: Laurel Green Theatre Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, BakkaPhoenix Science Fiction Bookstore, Art of Time Ensemble, Art Gallery of Ontario, House Seats, Bohmer Restaurant Saturday & Sunday, 10am to 8 pm Festival Publicist (ClutchPR): Daniela Syrovy By phone by calling the Arts Box Office at 416 504 7529 Public Relations Assistant (ClutchPR): Madison Moran Thank Yous (in no particular order) for tickets & info during the hours listed above. Front of House Coordinator: Tina Meister Volunteer Coordinator: Andy Wang Maurice Galpern, Franco Boni, Gayle Longley, Annette Dukszta, Jim Wilson, Soundscapes, Music Series tickets are also on sale in advance at Rotate This Steve Pratt, James Booth, Fadi Hakim, Tim Mclaughlin, Chris Goddard, Erika Hennebury, and Soundscapes. Box Office Manager (Arts Box Office):Liz Jansen Margo Charlton, Pat Bradley, Linda Nickolson, Karla Kartl, Koba Johnson, Kim Seldoy, Sponsorship Director: Bridget Norris Chris Slorach, Eric Warner, Clinton Robinson, Evan Newman, Brian Ostrander, Mendl Up to 50% of the house can be sold in advance. The remaining half Graphic Design: Monnet Design Schwartz, Nina Arsenault, Romeo Candido, Brendan Healey, Isidra Cruz, Michael Gallaro, will always be available at the door. Web Developer: Jenny Kapichen Kelly Reid, Ame Henderson, Arts&Crafts, Brendan Bourke, Jordan Tannahill, Matthew Barber, Boys Who Say No, Emily Porter, Ron Koperdraad, Shira Swartz, Aaron Rotbard, Industry Liaison: Gillian Street National Theatre of the World, Ryan McDougall, Mike Crossley, Steve Beatty, Annie Gibson, Intern: Shaina Silver-Baird Blake Sproule, Karla Hartl, Andy McKim, Kendra Fry, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Janice Copeland, Doreen Balabanoff, Mary Ann Lee, Derrick Chua, Michael R., Yvette Nolan & Native Earth, Nicolett Jakab, Lynne Woolcott & St. Christopher House, Rikki Zucker, Board of Directors Shannon Cochrane, Emma McKenzie Hillier, Alexis McDougall, Soulpepper / The Young Centre for the Performing Arts, BB Designs, WYRD Productions, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Venues Board Chair: David Taylor Rebecca Vandevelde, Tarragon Theatre, Allan Day, Amanda Lynne Ballard, Sebastian Iwohn, Laura Clark, Vanessa Grant, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Benjamin Regan, Amy Rutherford, Jayme Spinks, Agnes Wong, Stéphane Monnet, Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace Michael McLeod, Paul Thompson David Yee, Nightwood Theatre, Stephanie Tonietto, Renna Reddie, Meredith Anderson 125 Bathurst St. Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 125 Bathurst St. Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace Awards 16 Ryerson Ave. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace All awards are adjudicated by a jury of three theatre professionals, Canadian Stage Award for Direction 16 Ryerson Ave. except the NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award, which is determined $1000 cash prize awarded for an outstanding piece of direction by ballot. Venue E: The Theatre Centre at the Festival. 1087 Queen St. W. SummerWorks Prize for Production The Spotlight Award Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café The prize is a free trip back to the Festival next year. All companies Awarded to a featured performer in a SummerWorks show. The winner (The Theatre Centre) 1087 Queen St. W. presenting new work are eligible. receives a vip pass to the Festival next year. Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre Contra Guys Award for New Work The Steam Whistle Emerging Artist Award 100A Ossington Ave. Generously supported by to SummerWorks founders, Benj Gallander $500 cash prize awarded to an artist early in their career who made Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee and Ben Stadelmann, the Contra Guys New Work Award is a $1000 an artistic impression during the Festival. 992 Queen St. W. (at Ossington Ave.) cash award presented to a theatre-maker for an outstanding new work (script or performance text). RBC Arts Professional Award Venue I: HUB 14 14 Markham St. (at Queen St. W.) National Theatre School Award for Set or Costume Design This $1000 cash prize recognizes the work, craft and dedication of an emerging arts professional. This award is made possible with the Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park This new award, sponsored by the National Theatre School, offers a support of RBC. Queen St. W. at Strachan Ave. (meet at the Strachan gates) $750 cash prize to a designer for an outstanding set or costume design. The NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award Venue K: The Performance Bar Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation (Lower Ossington Theatre, street level) 100A Ossington Ave. Also new, sponsored by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, this $750 Vote for your favourite SummerWorks production! Simply place your cash prize is awarded to an individual or company in recognition of an ticket stub in the NOW Audience Choice box as you leave the theatre. artistic choice or choices exemplifying innovation and/or artistic risk. The winner will receive $1,500 in free advertising with NOW Magazine. All shows are eligible for this prize. The winners of all nine awards will be announced at our closing night party between 11 and 11:30pm in the Factory Theatre Courtyard on Sunday, August 15.

2 3 Theatre

Aftershock AVATAR – National series: winnipeg Bliss Even Darkness is Made of Light By Evan Tsitsias. Directed by Rod Ceballos. Presented by Theatre Written & Directed by Freya Olafson. Lighting Design by By Olivier Choiniere (translated by Caryl Churchill). Directed By Edwige Jean-Pierre. Directed by Patrick Conner. Presented on the Verge. Set Design by Glen Davidson. Dramaturgy by Lisa Hugh Conacher. Costume Design by Norma Lachance. Featuring by Steven McCarthy. Presented by Candles are for Burning. by Not My Pig Not My Farm Productions. Dramaturgy by Patrick O’Connell. Featuring Patrick Garrow, Lynne Griffin, Allana Harkin, Freya Olafson. Set & Costume Design by James Lavoie. Lighting Design by Conner. Lighting Design by Alyssa L. Matheson. David Mackett, Catherine Rainville & Amy Rutherford. AVATAR explores methods of creating, validating and disseminating Rachel Dawn Woods. Sound Design by Diane Labrosse. Even Darkness Is Made of Light is a dark comedy about suicide: Is change actually possible? Anna’s just returned to the trailer park one’s identity through the use of technology and the Internet. Inspired Featuring Delphine Bienvenu, Jean-Robert Bourdage, France 17-year-old Carrie Edison is struggling with the loss of her high school after appearing on one of those “Extreme Makeover” shows. Her by the mantra “I post therefore I am,” the work facilitates an inquiry into Rolland & Steven McCarthy. crush and feels responsible for his accidental death. Depressed and transformation ignites a sea of change in her eccentric family, but not our desire to share and publicize our lives. The performance inherently North American premiere of this dark and timely piece by one of disillusioned with the realities of her surroundings, she masterminds Anna herself, who finds she has to take some desperate measures becomes a duet with technology as in AVATAR Freya makes use of Quebec’s hottest playwrights as translated by Caryl Churchill. What “Operation Exit F!@#$% up Planet.” Everything is in place: it can’t to finally move, in any direction. live video feeds and projections to magnify, manipulate and effectively is Walmart? Who is Celine Dion? And who is the girl kept prisoner fail, it won’t fail – so long as it’s done after she sees the next installment broadcast persona and image. in her room? An Oracle arrives to help us hold Heaven in one hand of the Twilight series. Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes and Hell in the other and to finally give us an answer. Saturday, August 7, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 5:30pm; Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 8pm; Thursday, August 12, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 5, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 2:30pm Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 75 minutes Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5pm Friday, August 13, 3pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Friday, August 6, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 7pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5pm Friday, August 13, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Monday, August 9, 4:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7pm Friday, August 13, 10pm; Sunday, August 15, 2:30pm All of Him Friday, August 13, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 11:30am By Tanya Pillay. Directed by Jajube Mandiela. Presented by in big face Foster Child Play between. Lighting Design by CJ Astronomo. Sound Design by By Marion de Vries. Directed by Heather McCreath. Presented by Countries Shaped Like Stars By Alex Napier. Directed by Philip McKee. Presented by Island Rehaset Yohanes. Visual Media Consultant Jay Field. Featuring left hand theatre. Featuring Marion de Vries. Created by Emily Pearlman & Nicolas Di Gaetano. Directed by School. Composed by Katie Stelmanis. Featuring Nika Mistruzzi, Tanya Pillay. A woman wakes up in her Toronto bachelor supremely hung over, and Patrick Gauthier. Presented by Mi Casa. Lighting Design by Vanessa Dunn & Jackie Rowland. An interactive, live biography of a jovial father with a dark past who relives her past as a big-drinkin’ big-talkin’ gal who drives her pick-up Lynn Cox. Costume & Prop Design by Sarah Waghorn. Featuring “Everything is so hard.” Alice and Sheila live in an apartment. Tallulah asked: “is that all there is to me?” Cheer and smear collide in this truck into a profane and sacred badlands adventure among cowboys Emily Pearlman & Nicolas Di Gaetano. comes from the Country. Once together, the three change each other’s intimate eulogy where you can ponder and even discuss typically and rigpigs on the Alberta prairie, searching for that proverbial wrong The courtship of Gwendolyn Magnificent and Bartholomew lives like: ruin and mend, always trying. taboo subjects without fearing provocation or injury. turn. A left-handed comedy. Spectacular is a tale of love best heard through a tin-can telephone. Venue I: HUB 14 Capacity: 30 / 75 minutes Winner: Outstanding Production (Ottawa Fringe) and Outstanding Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 75 minutes New Creation (Rideau Awards). Official Selection: 2010 Revolutions Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Friday, August 6, 8pm Friday, August 6, 6pm; Saturday, August 7, 8pm Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 5:30pm Festival, New Mexico. “This is the theatre show The Decemberists Saturday, August 7, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 2pm Sunday, August 8, 12pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 10:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5:30pm would create if Roald Dahl directed them.” Tuesday, August 10, 2pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Friday, August 13, 4pm; Saturday, August 14, 4pm Friday, August 13, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 12:30pm Thursday, August 12, 8pm; Friday, August 13, 8pm Sunday, August 15, 6pm Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Saturday, August 14, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 2pm Biographies of the Dead & Dying Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair Monday, August 9, 5pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm The Hanging of FranÇoise Laurent By Andrew Templeton. Directed by Amiel Gladstone. Presented Friday, August 13, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 12pm By Celia McBride. Directed by Rae Ellen Bodie. Presented by by MachineFair. Lighting Design by Kimberly Purtell. Featuring Written & Directed by Kate Cayley. Presented by Stranger Theatre. Vintage Productions. Featuring Megan Dunlop & Colin Doyle. Aviva Armour-Ostroff & Jeff Meadows. All design & musical arrangements created by the company. The Emotionalists The Head. The Body. The Heart. The Spirit. An author rents a haunted house to write the biography of a ghost. Featuring Sarah Cormier, Zach Fraser, Kiersten Tough. What happens when a Gal and a Fella have good chemistry but question- She finds herself in an intense relationship with the missing and By Sky Gilbert. Directed by Eli Ham. Presented by Stuck in the In 1751, a young servant girl was sentenced to death in Montreal for able compatibility? The un-scientific exploration of a lust story. the dead. Critically acclaimed in Vancouver, a spare, darkly comic Mud Productions. Lighting Consultation by Michael Ledermueller. stealing a pair of gloves. At the time, a woman could escape execution exploration of the power we have to create and destroy. Not all Featuring Soo Garay, Aidan DeSalaiz, Tim MacLean, Krystal if she could persuade the hangman to marry her. Stranger Theatre Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee 60 minutes ghost stories are make believe. Meadows, Dan LeBerg & James Downing. explores this bizarre and true story about fate, fantasy, seduction Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Friday, Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm & 9:15pm A look at famous writer, fierce lobbyist and founder of the Objectivist and survival. Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 60 minutes Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm & 9:15pm; Monday, August 9, 7:30pm movement, Ayn Rand. The Emotionalists opens amid Ayn’s love affair Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5pm with psychologist Nathaniel Branden, which reveals cracks in her Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm; Friday, August 13, 7:30pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5pm austere veneer, and her inherent hypocrisy, as all those around her Thursday, August 5, 6pm; Saturday, August 7, 12pm Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm & 9:15pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm Friday, August 13, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 12pm struggle to find where reason ends and honest emotion begins. Sunday, August 8, 8pm; Monday, August 9, 10pm Thursday, August 12, 4pm; Friday, August 13, 6pm Venue E: The Theatre Centre 75 minutes Sunday, August 15, 10pm Friday, August 6, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 12pm Monday, August 9, 10pm; Thursday, August 12, 5pm Saturday, August 14, 2:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm

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Aftershock AVATAR – National series: winnipeg Bliss Even Darkness is Made of Light By Evan Tsitsias. Directed by Rod Ceballos. Presented by Theatre Written & Directed by Freya Olafson. Lighting Design by By Olivier Choiniere (translated by Caryl Churchill). Directed By Edwige Jean-Pierre. Directed by Patrick Conner. Presented on the Verge. Set Design by Glen Davidson. Dramaturgy by Lisa Hugh Conacher. Costume Design by Norma Lachance. Featuring by Steven McCarthy. Presented by Candles are for Burning. by Not My Pig Not My Farm Productions. Dramaturgy by Patrick O’Connell. Featuring Patrick Garrow, Lynne Griffin, Allana Harkin, Freya Olafson. Set & Costume Design by James Lavoie. Lighting Design by Conner. Lighting Design by Alyssa L. Matheson. David Mackett, Catherine Rainville & Amy Rutherford. AVATAR explores methods of creating, validating and disseminating Rachel Dawn Woods. Sound Design by Diane Labrosse. Even Darkness Is Made of Light is a dark comedy about suicide: Is change actually possible? Anna’s just returned to the trailer park one’s identity through the use of technology and the Internet. Inspired Featuring Delphine Bienvenu, Jean-Robert Bourdage, France 17-year-old Carrie Edison is struggling with the loss of her high school after appearing on one of those “Extreme Makeover” shows. Her by the mantra “I post therefore I am,” the work facilitates an inquiry into Rolland & Steven McCarthy. crush and feels responsible for his accidental death. Depressed and transformation ignites a sea of change in her eccentric family, but not our desire to share and publicize our lives. The performance inherently North American premiere of this dark and timely piece by one of disillusioned with the realities of her surroundings, she masterminds Anna herself, who finds she has to take some desperate measures becomes a duet with technology as in AVATAR Freya makes use of Quebec’s hottest playwrights as translated by Caryl Churchill. What “Operation Exit F!@#$% up Planet.” Everything is in place: it can’t to finally move, in any direction. live video feeds and projections to magnify, manipulate and effectively is Walmart? Who is Celine Dion? And who is the girl kept prisoner fail, it won’t fail – so long as it’s done after she sees the next installment broadcast persona and image. in her room? An Oracle arrives to help us hold Heaven in one hand of the Twilight series. Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes and Hell in the other and to finally give us an answer. Saturday, August 7, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 5:30pm; Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 8pm; Thursday, August 12, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 5, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 2:30pm Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 75 minutes Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5pm Friday, August 13, 3pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Friday, August 6, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 7pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5pm Friday, August 13, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Monday, August 9, 4:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7pm Friday, August 13, 10pm; Sunday, August 15, 2:30pm All of Him Friday, August 13, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 11:30am By Tanya Pillay. Directed by Jajube Mandiela. Presented by in big face Foster Child Play between. Lighting Design by CJ Astronomo. Sound Design by By Marion de Vries. Directed by Heather McCreath. Presented by Countries Shaped Like Stars By Alex Napier. Directed by Philip McKee. Presented by Island Rehaset Yohanes. Visual Media Consultant Jay Field. Featuring left hand theatre. Featuring Marion de Vries. Created by Emily Pearlman & Nicolas Di Gaetano. Directed by School. Composed by Katie Stelmanis. Featuring Nika Mistruzzi, Tanya Pillay. A woman wakes up in her Toronto bachelor supremely hung over, and Patrick Gauthier. Presented by Mi Casa. Lighting Design by Vanessa Dunn & Jackie Rowland. An interactive, live biography of a jovial father with a dark past who relives her past as a big-drinkin’ big-talkin’ gal who drives her pick-up Lynn Cox. Costume & Prop Design by Sarah Waghorn. Featuring “Everything is so hard.” Alice and Sheila live in an apartment. Tallulah asked: “is that all there is to me?” Cheer and smear collide in this truck into a profane and sacred badlands adventure among cowboys Emily Pearlman & Nicolas Di Gaetano. comes from the Country. Once together, the three change each other’s intimate eulogy where you can ponder and even discuss typically and rigpigs on the Alberta prairie, searching for that proverbial wrong The courtship of Gwendolyn Magnificent and Bartholomew lives like: ruin and mend, always trying. taboo subjects without fearing provocation or injury. turn. A left-handed comedy. Spectacular is a tale of love best heard through a tin-can telephone. Venue I: HUB 14 Capacity: 30 / 75 minutes Winner: Outstanding Production (Ottawa Fringe) and Outstanding Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 75 minutes New Creation (Rideau Awards). Official Selection: 2010 Revolutions Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Friday, August 6, 8pm Friday, August 6, 6pm; Saturday, August 7, 8pm Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 5:30pm Festival, New Mexico. “This is the theatre show The Decemberists Saturday, August 7, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 2pm Sunday, August 8, 12pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 10:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5:30pm would create if Roald Dahl directed them.” Tuesday, August 10, 2pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Friday, August 13, 4pm; Saturday, August 14, 4pm Friday, August 13, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 12:30pm Thursday, August 12, 8pm; Friday, August 13, 8pm Sunday, August 15, 6pm Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Saturday, August 14, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 2pm Biographies of the Dead & Dying Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair Monday, August 9, 5pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm The Hanging of FranÇoise Laurent By Andrew Templeton. Directed by Amiel Gladstone. Presented Friday, August 13, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 12pm By Celia McBride. Directed by Rae Ellen Bodie. Presented by by MachineFair. Lighting Design by Kimberly Purtell. Featuring Written & Directed by Kate Cayley. Presented by Stranger Theatre. Vintage Productions. Featuring Megan Dunlop & Colin Doyle. Aviva Armour-Ostroff & Jeff Meadows. All design & musical arrangements created by the company. The Emotionalists The Head. The Body. The Heart. The Spirit. An author rents a haunted house to write the biography of a ghost. Featuring Sarah Cormier, Zach Fraser, Kiersten Tough. What happens when a Gal and a Fella have good chemistry but question- She finds herself in an intense relationship with the missing and By Sky Gilbert. Directed by Eli Ham. Presented by Stuck in the In 1751, a young servant girl was sentenced to death in Montreal for able compatibility? The un-scientific exploration of a lust story. the dead. Critically acclaimed in Vancouver, a spare, darkly comic Mud Productions. Lighting Consultation by Michael Ledermueller. stealing a pair of gloves. At the time, a woman could escape execution exploration of the power we have to create and destroy. Not all Featuring Soo Garay, Aidan DeSalaiz, Tim MacLean, Krystal if she could persuade the hangman to marry her. Stranger Theatre Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee 60 minutes ghost stories are make believe. Meadows, Dan LeBerg & James Downing. explores this bizarre and true story about fate, fantasy, seduction Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Friday, Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm & 9:15pm A look at famous writer, fierce lobbyist and founder of the Objectivist and survival. Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 60 minutes Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm & 9:15pm; Monday, August 9, 7:30pm movement, Ayn Rand. The Emotionalists opens amid Ayn’s love affair Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm Thursday, August 5, 7:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5pm with psychologist Nathaniel Branden, which reveals cracks in her Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm; Friday, August 13, 7:30pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5pm austere veneer, and her inherent hypocrisy, as all those around her Thursday, August 5, 6pm; Saturday, August 7, 12pm Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm & 9:15pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm Friday, August 13, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 12pm struggle to find where reason ends and honest emotion begins. Sunday, August 8, 8pm; Monday, August 9, 10pm Thursday, August 12, 4pm; Friday, August 13, 6pm Venue E: The Theatre Centre 75 minutes Sunday, August 15, 10pm Friday, August 6, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 12pm Monday, August 9, 10pm; Thursday, August 12, 5pm Saturday, August 14, 2:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm

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Haunted Hillbilly – National series: montreal It’s Time to Talk About Our Future Together By Graham Cuthbertson. Directed by Andrew Shaver. Presented Conceived & Performed by Chris Dupuis. by SideMart Theatrical Grocery. Songwriting, Guitar, Banjo Single White Male Seeks Person(s) to Share the Future With & Vocals by Matthew Barber. Bass & Vocals by Julian Brown. Guitar, Mandolin, Pedal Steel, Vocals by Joe Grass. Sound Originally commissioned by the Tina B. Festival in Prague, Czech Design & Technical Direction by Jesse Ash. Set/Lighting Design Republic, this piece invites audiences to join the artist for a one-on- & Production Management by Sarah Yaffe. Costume Design by one conversation about the future we will share together. Susana Vera. Featuring Matthew Raudsepp, Gemma James-Smith, The performance lasts approximately 15 minutes per person. Greg Kramer, Kyle Gatehouse, Daniel Brochu, Alexis Taylor Audiences can come by any time during the performance to participate. & Graham Cuthbertson. Admission: Pay What You Can Haunted Hillbilly is a cowboy carnival romp complete with Country music Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café (The Theatre Centre) and vampires. Hyram Woodside’s dream to become the brightest star Friday, August 6, 7–9pm; Saturday, August 7, 7–9pm in Country music spins like a top in the hand of Nudie, a bloodsucking Thursday, August 12, 7–9pm; Friday, August 13, 7–9pm couturier whose own jealousy propels him into an unholy war against Saturday, August 14, 7–9pm Hyram and all those close to him. Haunted Hillbilly is fantastic, salacious and dazzling in sequins. I was Barbie Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 80 minutes By Nina Arsenault. Directed by Brendan Healy. Presented by Friday, August 6, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 8pm venusmachine. Dramaturgy by Judith Rudakoff. Sound Design Sunday, August 8, 10:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5:30pm by Richard Feren. Featuring Nina Arsenault. Friday, August 13, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 12:30pm Transsexual Nina Arsenault’s real life story of representing Mattel’s beloved plastic doll at her official 50th birthday party and the opening Homegrown night of L’Oreal Fashion Week – a spiritual portrait of a glittering, By Catherine Frid. Directed by Beatriz Pizano. Presented by digitally commodified, high society world with lots of (Canadian) The Homegrown Project. Scenography by Trevor Schwellnus. celebrity gossip! Award-winning theatre maker Brendan Healy directs. Sound Design by Thomas Ryder Payne. Assistant Director Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes Navneet Rai. Featuring Keith Barker, Lwam Ghebrehariat, Omar Hady, Shannon Perreault, Nabeel Salameh & Razi Shawahdeh. Thursday, August 5, 4pm; Friday, August 6, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 6pm; Tuesday, August 10, 8pm A Toronto lawyer/writer meets a prisoner accused of “homegrown Miss Caledonia Thursday, August 12, 6pm; Saturday, August 14, 2pm terrorism” in 2008. She continues to visit him over the next year and Sunday, August 15, 8pm a half, and becomes obsessed with separating fact from hype in the face of the uncertainty, delays and secrecy in his case. A true story. The Kreutzer Sonata Miss Caledonia iXOK’ Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Written & Directed by Ted Dykstra. Presented by Art of Time By Melody A. Johnson. Directed by Rick Roberts. Presented by By Carmen Samayoa y Edgar Flores. Directed by Beatriz Pizano. Ensemble/Prairie Ocean Inc co-production. Featuring Ted Dykstra. Lunkamud. Fiddle by Alison Porter. Featuring Melody A. Johnson. Thursday, August 5, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 3pm Presented by IXOK’ Theatre Collective in association with Aluna Tolstoy’s novella, The Kreutzer Sonata, is adapted for the stage and Miss Caledonia is a one-person show inspired by the life of Peggy Monday, August 9, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10:30pm Theatre. Choreography by Olga Barrios. Music Composed & performed by Ted Dykstra. A play about marriage, hatred and sexual Ann Douglas, a farm girl from Rural Route 2, Caledonia, who, like many Friday, August 13, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10:30pm Sound Art by Brandon Valdivia. Lighting & Set Design by Trevor jealousy, underscored by Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. Originally other farm gals across North America in the 1950s, dreamt of escaping Schwellnus. Costume Design by Andjelia Djuric. Featuring conceived and produced by Art of Time Ensemble in 2008, the show to the big city to become an actress. The Innocents Mayahuel Tecozautla. was presented to sold-out houses for two consecutive seasons. Written & Directed by Daniel Karasik. Presented by Tango Co. IXOK’ is a Maya-Quiché word that means WOMAN. In this solo dance/ Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Set & Lighting Design by André du Toit. Sound & Music Design theatre piece, Mayahuel Tecozautla depicts the story of an indigenous Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 60 minutes Thursday, August 5, 10:30pm; Friday, August 6, 8pm by Thomas Ryder Payne. Featuring Antonio Cayonne, Philip woman who flees to the jungle seeking safety for herself and her child. Thursday, August 5, 10:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5:30pm Monday, August 9, 5:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Furgiuele, Esther Maloney, Noah Reid & Amelia Sargisson. It is based on the stage play by Edgar Flores and Carmen Samayoa, Sunday, August 8, 12:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Friday, August 13, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 3pm Stanley Birnbaum, fresh-faced wunderkind lawyer, has a bewildering two Guatemalan theatre artists living in exile in France, and is based Friday, August 13, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 8pm new client: a smart young man from the suburbs, all the world open to on the testimonies of Guatemalan refugee women who survived the A Modicum of Freedom him, who’s confessed to a brutal, senseless murder. As if Stanley war. The play tackles the military conflict in Guatemala from 1960 to Loving the Stranger or how to recognize 1996, and specifically talks about the Mayan genocide that occurred By Ryan M. Sero. Directed by Scott Fairley. Presented by make. weren’t bewildered enough by his love life already. A sexy, darkly funny an invert art.theatre. Costume Design by Jody Sero. Featuring Ryan M. exploration of youth, ambition and desire. between 1978 and 1984 with more than 250,000 victims, of whom over 45,000 are still missing today. Written & Directed by Alistair Newton. Presented by Ecce Homo Sero, Craig Rintoul, Aaron Craig, Kaitlyn McGee, Gary Reid Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Theatre. Production Design by Matt Jackson. Musical Direction & Joy Johnson. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes by Dan Rutzen. Choreography by Graham McKelvie. Video by Saturday, August 7, 12pm; Sunday, August 8, 5pm Part parody and part homage to all dystopian works from 1984 to V for Adam Levett. Featuring Andrew Bathory, Seth Drabinsky, Matt Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Thursday August 12, 10pm Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 2pm Vendetta, A Modicum of Freedom looks at Herbert Milk, a humble Eger, Graham McKelvie, Kimberly Persona & Hume Baugh. Friday, August 13, 12am Midnight Performance Sunday, August 8, 4pm; Monday, August 9, 6pm citizen of a totalitarian state, and his comical quest for more meaning Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm Wednesday, August 11, 10pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Meet Montreal artist Peter Flinsch, arrested in 1942 for kissing a friend to life and a little bit of free will. Sunday, August 15, 2pm at a Nazi Christmas party. From the cabarets of 1920s Berlin to the Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes horrors of the Third Reich, the classrooms of Alberta to Paragraph 175 Iphigenia at Aulis Friday, August 6, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 10:30pm Kayak and Proposition 8, sexuality, spectacle and satire launch a blitzkrieg By Euripides, adapted by Nicolas Billion with Roger Beck. on apathy. Monday, August 9, 8pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10:30pm Featuring Neema Bickersteth, Stephen Bogaert, Bronwyn Caudle, By Jordan Hall. Directed by Tommy Taylor. Presented by Saturday, August 14, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 5:30pm Meegwun Fairbrother, David Fox, Eric Goulem, Eryn Murman, The Original Norwegian. Featuring Rosemary Dunsmore. Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 60 minutes Sarah Orenstein & Sarena Parmar. Climate change, global responsibility, suv driving moms and a biblical Friday, August 6, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 12pm Molotov Circus – National series: winnipeg What is the value of one person’s life in a time of war? Euripides’s flooding of thegta . As a lone mother navigates the water, she recounts Monday, August 9, 10pm; Thursday, August 12, 5pm the events that led to her being stranded in her son’s old kayak. Saturday, August 14, 2:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm By Debbie Patterson. Directed by Arne MacPherson. Presented Iphigenia at Aulis is an electrifying Greek drama that examines the by Squeezebox Mama. Featuring Arne MacPherson, Debbie relationship of personal sacrifice to prevailing power structures. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Patterson, Gislina Patterson & Salty MacPherson. Me Happy Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Friday, August 6, 4pm; Saturday, August 7, 6pm Angst-ridden teenager Albina wants to leave the nest. But it’s not By Amy Lee Lavoie & Matt MacKenzie. Directed by Rose Plotek. Friday, August 6, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm like she can run off and join the circus – she’s already in it. Thursday, August 12, 10pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm Presented by Pyretic Productions. Lighting, Costume & Set Design Monday, August 9, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10pm; “This twisted little number would probably make Bill Keane’s head explode.” Sunday, August 15, 12pm by Jenna McCutchen. Featuring Chala Hunter & Alex McCooeye. Saturday, August 14, 12pm; Sunday, August 15, 5pm – CBC Radio Biddy, 5'2", two hundred pounds, receives a letter of inquiry at the tourist office in Muff, Ireland, from Logan H. Hasselhoff – no relation. “Incredible characters, songs, superb showmanship and a scene that An uproarious correspondence ensues between the two, in which would shock Ozzy Osbourne. A+” – Uptown Magazine Biddy and Logan propel each other to incredible heights, before taking Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 60 minutes the biggest dive of either of their lives. Friday, August 6, 7pm; Sunday, August 8, 2pm Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Monday, August 9, 7pm; Thursday, August 12, 4:30pm Thursday, August 5, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 3pm Saturday, August 14, 2pm; Sunday, August 15, 7pm Sunday, August 8, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10:30pm Friday, August 13, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10:30pm

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Haunted Hillbilly – National series: montreal It’s Time to Talk About Our Future Together By Graham Cuthbertson. Directed by Andrew Shaver. Presented Conceived & Performed by Chris Dupuis. by SideMart Theatrical Grocery. Songwriting, Guitar, Banjo Single White Male Seeks Person(s) to Share the Future With & Vocals by Matthew Barber. Bass & Vocals by Julian Brown. Guitar, Mandolin, Pedal Steel, Vocals by Joe Grass. Sound Originally commissioned by the Tina B. Festival in Prague, Czech Design & Technical Direction by Jesse Ash. Set/Lighting Design Republic, this piece invites audiences to join the artist for a one-on- & Production Management by Sarah Yaffe. Costume Design by one conversation about the future we will share together. Susana Vera. Featuring Matthew Raudsepp, Gemma James-Smith, The performance lasts approximately 15 minutes per person. Greg Kramer, Kyle Gatehouse, Daniel Brochu, Alexis Taylor Audiences can come by any time during the performance to participate. & Graham Cuthbertson. Admission: Pay What You Can Haunted Hillbilly is a cowboy carnival romp complete with Country music Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café (The Theatre Centre) and vampires. Hyram Woodside’s dream to become the brightest star Friday, August 6, 7–9pm; Saturday, August 7, 7–9pm in Country music spins like a top in the hand of Nudie, a bloodsucking Thursday, August 12, 7–9pm; Friday, August 13, 7–9pm couturier whose own jealousy propels him into an unholy war against Saturday, August 14, 7–9pm Hyram and all those close to him. Haunted Hillbilly is fantastic, salacious and dazzling in sequins. I was Barbie Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 80 minutes By Nina Arsenault. Directed by Brendan Healy. Presented by Friday, August 6, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 8pm venusmachine. Dramaturgy by Judith Rudakoff. Sound Design Sunday, August 8, 10:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 5:30pm by Richard Feren. Featuring Nina Arsenault. Friday, August 13, 8pm; Sunday, August 15, 12:30pm Transsexual Nina Arsenault’s real life story of representing Mattel’s beloved plastic doll at her official 50th birthday party and the opening Homegrown night of L’Oreal Fashion Week – a spiritual portrait of a glittering, By Catherine Frid. Directed by Beatriz Pizano. Presented by digitally commodified, high society world with lots of (Canadian) The Homegrown Project. Scenography by Trevor Schwellnus. celebrity gossip! Award-winning theatre maker Brendan Healy directs. Sound Design by Thomas Ryder Payne. Assistant Director Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes Navneet Rai. Featuring Keith Barker, Lwam Ghebrehariat, Omar Hady, Shannon Perreault, Nabeel Salameh & Razi Shawahdeh. Thursday, August 5, 4pm; Friday, August 6, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 6pm; Tuesday, August 10, 8pm A Toronto lawyer/writer meets a prisoner accused of “homegrown Miss Caledonia Thursday, August 12, 6pm; Saturday, August 14, 2pm terrorism” in 2008. She continues to visit him over the next year and Sunday, August 15, 8pm a half, and becomes obsessed with separating fact from hype in the face of the uncertainty, delays and secrecy in his case. A true story. The Kreutzer Sonata Miss Caledonia iXOK’ Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Written & Directed by Ted Dykstra. Presented by Art of Time By Melody A. Johnson. Directed by Rick Roberts. Presented by By Carmen Samayoa y Edgar Flores. Directed by Beatriz Pizano. Ensemble/Prairie Ocean Inc co-production. Featuring Ted Dykstra. Lunkamud. Fiddle by Alison Porter. Featuring Melody A. Johnson. Thursday, August 5, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 3pm Presented by IXOK’ Theatre Collective in association with Aluna Tolstoy’s novella, The Kreutzer Sonata, is adapted for the stage and Miss Caledonia is a one-person show inspired by the life of Peggy Monday, August 9, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10:30pm Theatre. Choreography by Olga Barrios. Music Composed & performed by Ted Dykstra. A play about marriage, hatred and sexual Ann Douglas, a farm girl from Rural Route 2, Caledonia, who, like many Friday, August 13, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10:30pm Sound Art by Brandon Valdivia. Lighting & Set Design by Trevor jealousy, underscored by Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. Originally other farm gals across North America in the 1950s, dreamt of escaping Schwellnus. Costume Design by Andjelia Djuric. Featuring conceived and produced by Art of Time Ensemble in 2008, the show to the big city to become an actress. The Innocents Mayahuel Tecozautla. was presented to sold-out houses for two consecutive seasons. Written & Directed by Daniel Karasik. Presented by Tango Co. IXOK’ is a Maya-Quiché word that means WOMAN. In this solo dance/ Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Set & Lighting Design by André du Toit. Sound & Music Design theatre piece, Mayahuel Tecozautla depicts the story of an indigenous Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 60 minutes Thursday, August 5, 10:30pm; Friday, August 6, 8pm by Thomas Ryder Payne. Featuring Antonio Cayonne, Philip woman who flees to the jungle seeking safety for herself and her child. Thursday, August 5, 10:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 5:30pm Monday, August 9, 5:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Furgiuele, Esther Maloney, Noah Reid & Amelia Sargisson. It is based on the stage play by Edgar Flores and Carmen Samayoa, Sunday, August 8, 12:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm Friday, August 13, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 3pm Stanley Birnbaum, fresh-faced wunderkind lawyer, has a bewildering two Guatemalan theatre artists living in exile in France, and is based Friday, August 13, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 8pm new client: a smart young man from the suburbs, all the world open to on the testimonies of Guatemalan refugee women who survived the A Modicum of Freedom him, who’s confessed to a brutal, senseless murder. As if Stanley war. The play tackles the military conflict in Guatemala from 1960 to Loving the Stranger or how to recognize 1996, and specifically talks about the Mayan genocide that occurred By Ryan M. Sero. Directed by Scott Fairley. Presented by make. weren’t bewildered enough by his love life already. A sexy, darkly funny an invert art.theatre. Costume Design by Jody Sero. Featuring Ryan M. exploration of youth, ambition and desire. between 1978 and 1984 with more than 250,000 victims, of whom over 45,000 are still missing today. Written & Directed by Alistair Newton. Presented by Ecce Homo Sero, Craig Rintoul, Aaron Craig, Kaitlyn McGee, Gary Reid Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Theatre. Production Design by Matt Jackson. Musical Direction & Joy Johnson. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes by Dan Rutzen. Choreography by Graham McKelvie. Video by Saturday, August 7, 12pm; Sunday, August 8, 5pm Part parody and part homage to all dystopian works from 1984 to V for Adam Levett. Featuring Andrew Bathory, Seth Drabinsky, Matt Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Thursday August 12, 10pm Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 2pm Vendetta, A Modicum of Freedom looks at Herbert Milk, a humble Eger, Graham McKelvie, Kimberly Persona & Hume Baugh. Friday, August 13, 12am Midnight Performance Sunday, August 8, 4pm; Monday, August 9, 6pm citizen of a totalitarian state, and his comical quest for more meaning Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm Wednesday, August 11, 10pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Meet Montreal artist Peter Flinsch, arrested in 1942 for kissing a friend to life and a little bit of free will. Sunday, August 15, 2pm at a Nazi Christmas party. From the cabarets of 1920s Berlin to the Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes horrors of the Third Reich, the classrooms of Alberta to Paragraph 175 Iphigenia at Aulis Friday, August 6, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 10:30pm Kayak and Proposition 8, sexuality, spectacle and satire launch a blitzkrieg By Euripides, adapted by Nicolas Billion with Roger Beck. on apathy. Monday, August 9, 8pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10:30pm Featuring Neema Bickersteth, Stephen Bogaert, Bronwyn Caudle, By Jordan Hall. Directed by Tommy Taylor. Presented by Saturday, August 14, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 5:30pm Meegwun Fairbrother, David Fox, Eric Goulem, Eryn Murman, The Original Norwegian. Featuring Rosemary Dunsmore. Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 60 minutes Sarah Orenstein & Sarena Parmar. Climate change, global responsibility, suv driving moms and a biblical Friday, August 6, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 12pm Molotov Circus – National series: winnipeg What is the value of one person’s life in a time of war? Euripides’s flooding of thegta . As a lone mother navigates the water, she recounts Monday, August 9, 10pm; Thursday, August 12, 5pm the events that led to her being stranded in her son’s old kayak. Saturday, August 14, 2:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 7:30pm By Debbie Patterson. Directed by Arne MacPherson. Presented Iphigenia at Aulis is an electrifying Greek drama that examines the by Squeezebox Mama. Featuring Arne MacPherson, Debbie relationship of personal sacrifice to prevailing power structures. Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 60 minutes Patterson, Gislina Patterson & Salty MacPherson. Me Happy Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Friday, August 6, 4pm; Saturday, August 7, 6pm Angst-ridden teenager Albina wants to leave the nest. But it’s not By Amy Lee Lavoie & Matt MacKenzie. Directed by Rose Plotek. Friday, August 6, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 10pm; Wednesday, August 11, 8pm like she can run off and join the circus – she’s already in it. Thursday, August 12, 10pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm Presented by Pyretic Productions. Lighting, Costume & Set Design Monday, August 9, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10pm; “This twisted little number would probably make Bill Keane’s head explode.” Sunday, August 15, 12pm by Jenna McCutchen. Featuring Chala Hunter & Alex McCooeye. Saturday, August 14, 12pm; Sunday, August 15, 5pm – CBC Radio Biddy, 5'2", two hundred pounds, receives a letter of inquiry at the tourist office in Muff, Ireland, from Logan H. Hasselhoff – no relation. “Incredible characters, songs, superb showmanship and a scene that An uproarious correspondence ensues between the two, in which would shock Ozzy Osbourne. A+” – Uptown Magazine Biddy and Logan propel each other to incredible heights, before taking Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 60 minutes the biggest dive of either of their lives. Friday, August 6, 7pm; Sunday, August 8, 2pm Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Monday, August 9, 7pm; Thursday, August 12, 4:30pm Thursday, August 5, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 3pm Saturday, August 14, 2pm; Sunday, August 15, 7pm Sunday, August 8, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10:30pm Friday, August 13, 5:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 10:30pm

6 7 Theatre

Or, Redheaded Stepchild Ride the Cyclone – National series: victoria The Small Ones By Liz Duffy Adams. Directed by Kelly Straughan. Presented by By Johnnie Walker. Directed by Morgan Norwich. Presented by By Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell. Directed by Britt Small Created by Shannon Roszell. Presented by Canary Yellow Seventh Stage Theatre Productions. Featuring Damien Atkins, Nobody’s Business Theatre. Design by Stephanie Avery. & Jacob Richmond. Presented by Atomic Vaudeville. Music Collective. Featuring Shannon Roszell. Melissa Jane Shaw & Sophie Goulet. Dramaturgy by Courtney J. Walker. Featuring Johnnie Walker. performed by Alex Wlasenko. Production Management by One performer Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz, if she can Nicholas is a 12-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. That Sarah Yaffe. Set Design by Hank Pine & James Insell. Costume Two live-feed projections only write her play without interruptions from her love life. While war makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. And tomorrow at lunch, the Design by Ingrid Hansen. Choreography by Treena Stubel. Eighty-seven objects preserved in glass jars rages, Aphra and notable friends Charles II and Nell Gwynn celebrate biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up. Should he skip school? Featuring Kelly Hudson, Rielle Braid, Sarah Pelzer, Elliot Loran, Kholby Wardell & Carey Wass. Experience the beauty of things small, things lost and things discarded free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism. Or, is a sexy and witty His stepmom, Mary-Anne, thinks he should go. His alter ego, Rufus as The Small Ones uncovers past events and present memory. theatrical threesome between three of the stage’s most famous Vermilion, has other ideas. The long-awaited musical sequel to Legoland. It’s a musical ride, as a artistic figures. teenage chamber choir from Uranium, Saskatchewan, dies in a roller- Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 60 minutes Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes “A playful, funny and inventive comedy.” – The New York Times coaster accident at a travelling fair. In this final recital, Dr. Welby, Thursday, August 5, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 2pm Saturday, August 7, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 12:30pm the mechanized fortune-telling machine, gives the teens a change to Sunday, August 8, 7pm; Tuesday, August 10, 4:30pm “Positively ripples!” – Time Out/New York Monday, August 9, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 5:30pm express themselves to the world. Saturday, August 14, 7pm; Sunday, August 15, 4:30pm Saturday, August 14, 3pm; Sunday, August 15, 8pm Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 80 minutes Friday, August 6, 10pm; Sunday, August 8, 2:30pm Souvenirs of Home The Return of Corporal Mazenet Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 8pm Tuesday, August 10, 5pm; Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm Monday, August 9, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 5:30pm By Elyne Quan. Directed by Ulla Laidlaw. Presented by Third Saturday, August 14, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm By Nick Carpenter. Directed by David Jansen. Presented by Saturday, August 14, 3pm; Sunday, August 15, 3pm Floor Office. Sound Design by Nicholas Murray. Featuring Service Industry. Music by Nick Carpenter & Patricia Summersett. Marjorie Chan, Eileen Li & Elyne Quan. Set & Costume Design by Anna Treusch. Lighting Design by Post Eden Andrew Smith. Sound Design by Richard Feren. Featuring The Sad and Cautionary Tale of In 1964, in the small town of Whitewood, Saskatchewan, the lives of a By Jordan Tannahill. Directed by Jordan Tannahill. Presented Andrew Moodie, Hugh Portman, Kaitlyn Riordan, Gord Bolan Smackheaded Peter young Chinese girl, her over-protective mother and a concerned by Suburban Beast. Lighting Design by CJ Astronomo. & Patricia Summersett. By Simon Glass. Directed by Heather Davies. Assistant Directed neighbour intersect with surprising and tragic consequences. Based Cinematography by Samuel Lebel-Wong. Featuring Lindsey on true events, this is a haunting story of isolation and longing in a Private Deutsch is back from Afghanistan and the diary of Corporal by Andrew McNaughton. Presented by Cheeky Magpie. Set, Clark, Sascha Cole, David Coomber, Jenna MacMillan small immigrant community. Mazenet is not the only thing he carries with him. When Deutsch is Costume & Prop Design by Brandon Kleiman. Lighting Design & Kevin Walker. interviewed by a songwriter in search of a song, forces are unleashed by Andrew Smith. Featuring Emily Andrews, Claire Burns, Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Dear Residents of Neighbourly Lane, that bring the war back home. Bryan Demore, Tina Fance, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Luke Marty, Friday, August 6, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Richard Stewart, Paul Tessier & Marilla Wex. It has come to our attention that recent housing developments between Venue E: The Theatre Centre 75 minutes Monday, August 9, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10pm Major MacKenzie Drive and Mill Street have caused an increase in wild- “Peace through smack and good will to all men.” The cheeky fable Saturday, August 14, 12pm; Sunday, August 15, 5pm life activity on your street. Please, under no circumstances, approach Saturday, August 7, 12pm; Sunday, August 8, 5pm of Peter, born in an addict’s hovel, whose quest is to free the poor, Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 10pm creating peace on earth with low-cost heroin. “Why not, if all other a wild animal – even if it happens to be your child. Theory Friday, August 13, 2:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm attempts have tried and failed, why cannot smack have a go?” Suburban Beast By Norman Yeung. Directed by Joanne Williams. Presented by Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Public Radio and Camera Assembly. Set Design by Camellia Koo. Friday, August 6, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 3pm Lighting & Projection Design by Kristina McNamee. Music by Slim Friday, August 6, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 10:30pm Tuesday, August 10, 5:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 8pm Twig. Featuring Sascha Cole, Martin Happer, Roger Bainbridge, Monday, August 9, 5:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10:30pm Saturday, August 14, 5:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Bobbi Jaye, Darrel Gamotin & Zahir Gilani. Saturday, August 14, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 5:30pm Isabelle teaches film theory in a university. She is young, liberal and The Saddest Girl in the World progressive. A mysterious student posts offensive material on the By Cassie Beecham. Directed by Melissa Major. Presented course’s online discussion board, and when Isabelle takes action, she is by Cheshire Unicorn. Featuring Noa May Dorn, Cathy Gordon, attacked as a hypocrite. The harassment becomes vicious and bizarre. Benjamin Blais & Justin Bott. How can she remain progressive when progress becomes dangerous? El thinks she is too depressed to work. Rita thinks otherwise and orders Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 75 minutes her daughter to pay some rent. Determined not to get a conventional Thursday, August 5, 7pm; Saturday, August 7, 4:30pm job, El concocts a plan to use the renters in the basement to help her Sunday, August 8, 4:30pm; Friday, August 13, 7pm; make some cash. Saturday, August 14, 4:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 11:30am Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Saturday, August 7, 4pm The WITCH of Edmonton Monday, August 9, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 6pm By Dekker, Rowley & Ford. Directed by Ted Witzel & Catherine Friday, August 13, 8pm; Saturday, August 14, 12pm Dunn. Presented by the red light district. Costume Design by Sunday, August 15, 4pm Erin Telegdi & SJ Thiessen. Featuring Val Cina, Marcel Dragonieri, Lauren Gillis, Jonah Hundert, Kat Letwin, Reid Linforth, Jessica Say Ginger Ale Moss, Jiv Parasram, Ted Witzel, Eve Wylden & Mina James. Step Right Up By Marcia Johnson. Directed by Sue Miner. Presented by Marcia In the tightly knit community of Edmonton, Mother Sawyer is falsely Johnson. Featuring Ordena, Andrew Moodie, Norma Clarke, branded as a witch. Rejected and shunned, she takes revenge by Raven Dauda & Sharon Forrester. selling her soul to a demonic hellhound – and as evil and perversion infect the townsfolk, Mother Sawyer lives up to her new title. Nadia is very happy to call Canada home. Since moving to Canada at six, there was no turning back. So why does everyone think that Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park 75 minutes she’s pining for Jamaica? An unexpected trip back “home” makes Thursday, August 5, 9pm; Friday, August 6, 9pm her confront her past. There may even be a love connection. Saturday, August 7, 9pm; Sunday, August 8, 9pm Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 9pm; Wednesday, August 11, 9pm Aftershock Thursday, August 12, 9pm; Friday, August 13, 9pm Friday, August 6, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 3pm Saturday, August 14, 9pm Tuesday, August 10, 5:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 8pm Saturday, August 14, 5:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Wonderland Shed By Adam Lazarus. Directed by Melissa D’Agostino. Presented by QuipTake. Designed by Ken Mackenzie. Featuring Adam Lazarus. By Leah Jane Esau. Directed by Justin Madol. Presented by Les Nouvelles. Set & Costume Design by Nancy Perrin. Featuring Five years ago, bouffon creature Eff wowed audiences with his Andrew Bunker, Krystina Bojanowski, Simon Derome, Jovan Kocic. retelling of the Myth of Eden, as only God’s Unchosen could. With Genesis out of the way, Eff is on to bigger topics: cookie recipes, Shed is based on the 2006 incident where a group of children, aged Toronto’s best neighbourhoods, welfare lines, the Beatles, and this 8 to 11, pushed 14-year-old Brian McKay into a shed, closed the door, city we like to call Wonderland. and lit the shed on fire. The play follows characters Mitch and Erin as they struggle to survive the appalling situations of child poverty. Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Friday, August 6, 10pm; Sunday, August 8, 2:30pm Tuesday, August 10, 5pm; Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm Thursday, August 5, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 2:30pm Saturday, August 14, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Friday, August 13, 5pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Wonderland big face

8 9 Theatre

Or, Redheaded Stepchild Ride the Cyclone – National series: victoria The Small Ones By Liz Duffy Adams. Directed by Kelly Straughan. Presented by By Johnnie Walker. Directed by Morgan Norwich. Presented by By Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell. Directed by Britt Small Created by Shannon Roszell. Presented by Canary Yellow Seventh Stage Theatre Productions. Featuring Damien Atkins, Nobody’s Business Theatre. Design by Stephanie Avery. & Jacob Richmond. Presented by Atomic Vaudeville. Music Collective. Featuring Shannon Roszell. Melissa Jane Shaw & Sophie Goulet. Dramaturgy by Courtney J. Walker. Featuring Johnnie Walker. performed by Alex Wlasenko. Production Management by One performer Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz, if she can Nicholas is a 12-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. That Sarah Yaffe. Set Design by Hank Pine & James Insell. Costume Two live-feed projections only write her play without interruptions from her love life. While war makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. And tomorrow at lunch, the Design by Ingrid Hansen. Choreography by Treena Stubel. Eighty-seven objects preserved in glass jars rages, Aphra and notable friends Charles II and Nell Gwynn celebrate biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up. Should he skip school? Featuring Kelly Hudson, Rielle Braid, Sarah Pelzer, Elliot Loran, Kholby Wardell & Carey Wass. Experience the beauty of things small, things lost and things discarded free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism. Or, is a sexy and witty His stepmom, Mary-Anne, thinks he should go. His alter ego, Rufus as The Small Ones uncovers past events and present memory. theatrical threesome between three of the stage’s most famous Vermilion, has other ideas. The long-awaited musical sequel to Legoland. It’s a musical ride, as a artistic figures. teenage chamber choir from Uranium, Saskatchewan, dies in a roller- Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 60 minutes Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes “A playful, funny and inventive comedy.” – The New York Times coaster accident at a travelling fair. In this final recital, Dr. Welby, Thursday, August 5, 4:30pm; Saturday, August 7, 2pm Saturday, August 7, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 12:30pm the mechanized fortune-telling machine, gives the teens a change to Sunday, August 8, 7pm; Tuesday, August 10, 4:30pm “Positively ripples!” – Time Out/New York Monday, August 9, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 5:30pm express themselves to the world. Saturday, August 14, 7pm; Sunday, August 15, 4:30pm Saturday, August 14, 3pm; Sunday, August 15, 8pm Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 80 minutes Friday, August 6, 10pm; Sunday, August 8, 2:30pm Souvenirs of Home The Return of Corporal Mazenet Thursday, August 5, 8pm; Sunday, August 8, 8pm Tuesday, August 10, 5pm; Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm Monday, August 9, 10:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 5:30pm By Elyne Quan. Directed by Ulla Laidlaw. Presented by Third Saturday, August 14, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm By Nick Carpenter. Directed by David Jansen. Presented by Saturday, August 14, 3pm; Sunday, August 15, 3pm Floor Office. Sound Design by Nicholas Murray. Featuring Service Industry. Music by Nick Carpenter & Patricia Summersett. Marjorie Chan, Eileen Li & Elyne Quan. Set & Costume Design by Anna Treusch. Lighting Design by Post Eden Andrew Smith. Sound Design by Richard Feren. Featuring The Sad and Cautionary Tale of In 1964, in the small town of Whitewood, Saskatchewan, the lives of a By Jordan Tannahill. Directed by Jordan Tannahill. Presented Andrew Moodie, Hugh Portman, Kaitlyn Riordan, Gord Bolan Smackheaded Peter young Chinese girl, her over-protective mother and a concerned by Suburban Beast. Lighting Design by CJ Astronomo. & Patricia Summersett. By Simon Glass. Directed by Heather Davies. Assistant Directed neighbour intersect with surprising and tragic consequences. Based Cinematography by Samuel Lebel-Wong. Featuring Lindsey on true events, this is a haunting story of isolation and longing in a Private Deutsch is back from Afghanistan and the diary of Corporal by Andrew McNaughton. Presented by Cheeky Magpie. Set, Clark, Sascha Cole, David Coomber, Jenna MacMillan small immigrant community. Mazenet is not the only thing he carries with him. When Deutsch is Costume & Prop Design by Brandon Kleiman. Lighting Design & Kevin Walker. interviewed by a songwriter in search of a song, forces are unleashed by Andrew Smith. Featuring Emily Andrews, Claire Burns, Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Dear Residents of Neighbourly Lane, that bring the war back home. Bryan Demore, Tina Fance, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Luke Marty, Friday, August 6, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Richard Stewart, Paul Tessier & Marilla Wex. It has come to our attention that recent housing developments between Venue E: The Theatre Centre 75 minutes Monday, August 9, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10pm Major MacKenzie Drive and Mill Street have caused an increase in wild- “Peace through smack and good will to all men.” The cheeky fable Saturday, August 14, 12pm; Sunday, August 15, 5pm life activity on your street. Please, under no circumstances, approach Saturday, August 7, 12pm; Sunday, August 8, 5pm of Peter, born in an addict’s hovel, whose quest is to free the poor, Tuesday, August 10, 7:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 10pm creating peace on earth with low-cost heroin. “Why not, if all other a wild animal – even if it happens to be your child. Theory Friday, August 13, 2:30pm; Saturday, August 14, 7:30pm attempts have tried and failed, why cannot smack have a go?” Suburban Beast By Norman Yeung. Directed by Joanne Williams. Presented by Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 75 minutes Public Radio and Camera Assembly. Set Design by Camellia Koo. Friday, August 6, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 3pm Lighting & Projection Design by Kristina McNamee. Music by Slim Friday, August 6, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 10:30pm Tuesday, August 10, 5:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 8pm Twig. Featuring Sascha Cole, Martin Happer, Roger Bainbridge, Monday, August 9, 5:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 10:30pm Saturday, August 14, 5:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Bobbi Jaye, Darrel Gamotin & Zahir Gilani. Saturday, August 14, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 5:30pm Isabelle teaches film theory in a university. She is young, liberal and The Saddest Girl in the World progressive. A mysterious student posts offensive material on the By Cassie Beecham. Directed by Melissa Major. Presented course’s online discussion board, and when Isabelle takes action, she is by Cheshire Unicorn. Featuring Noa May Dorn, Cathy Gordon, attacked as a hypocrite. The harassment becomes vicious and bizarre. Benjamin Blais & Justin Bott. How can she remain progressive when progress becomes dangerous? El thinks she is too depressed to work. Rita thinks otherwise and orders Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 75 minutes her daughter to pay some rent. Determined not to get a conventional Thursday, August 5, 7pm; Saturday, August 7, 4:30pm job, El concocts a plan to use the renters in the basement to help her Sunday, August 8, 4:30pm; Friday, August 13, 7pm; make some cash. Saturday, August 14, 4:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 11:30am Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Saturday, August 7, 4pm The WITCH of Edmonton Monday, August 9, 8pm; Tuesday, August 10, 6pm By Dekker, Rowley & Ford. Directed by Ted Witzel & Catherine Friday, August 13, 8pm; Saturday, August 14, 12pm Dunn. Presented by the red light district. Costume Design by Sunday, August 15, 4pm Erin Telegdi & SJ Thiessen. Featuring Val Cina, Marcel Dragonieri, Lauren Gillis, Jonah Hundert, Kat Letwin, Reid Linforth, Jessica Say Ginger Ale Moss, Jiv Parasram, Ted Witzel, Eve Wylden & Mina James. Step Right Up By Marcia Johnson. Directed by Sue Miner. Presented by Marcia In the tightly knit community of Edmonton, Mother Sawyer is falsely Johnson. Featuring Ordena, Andrew Moodie, Norma Clarke, branded as a witch. Rejected and shunned, she takes revenge by Raven Dauda & Sharon Forrester. selling her soul to a demonic hellhound – and as evil and perversion infect the townsfolk, Mother Sawyer lives up to her new title. Nadia is very happy to call Canada home. Since moving to Canada at six, there was no turning back. So why does everyone think that Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park 75 minutes she’s pining for Jamaica? An unexpected trip back “home” makes Thursday, August 5, 9pm; Friday, August 6, 9pm her confront her past. There may even be a love connection. Saturday, August 7, 9pm; Sunday, August 8, 9pm Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 60 minutes Tuesday, August 10, 9pm; Wednesday, August 11, 9pm Aftershock Thursday, August 12, 9pm; Friday, August 13, 9pm Friday, August 6, 10:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 3pm Saturday, August 14, 9pm Tuesday, August 10, 5:30pm; Thursday, August 12, 8pm Saturday, August 14, 5:30pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Wonderland Shed By Adam Lazarus. Directed by Melissa D’Agostino. Presented by QuipTake. Designed by Ken Mackenzie. Featuring Adam Lazarus. By Leah Jane Esau. Directed by Justin Madol. Presented by Les Nouvelles. Set & Costume Design by Nancy Perrin. Featuring Five years ago, bouffon creature Eff wowed audiences with his Andrew Bunker, Krystina Bojanowski, Simon Derome, Jovan Kocic. retelling of the Myth of Eden, as only God’s Unchosen could. With Genesis out of the way, Eff is on to bigger topics: cookie recipes, Shed is based on the 2006 incident where a group of children, aged Toronto’s best neighbourhoods, welfare lines, the Beatles, and this 8 to 11, pushed 14-year-old Brian McKay into a shed, closed the door, city we like to call Wonderland. and lit the shed on fire. The play follows characters Mitch and Erin as they struggle to survive the appalling situations of child poverty. Venue E: The Theatre Centre 60 minutes Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 75 minutes Friday, August 6, 10pm; Sunday, August 8, 2:30pm Tuesday, August 10, 5pm; Thursday, August 12, 7:30pm Thursday, August 5, 5pm; Saturday, August 7, 2:30pm Saturday, August 14, 5pm; Sunday, August 15, 10pm Sunday, August 8, 7:30pm; Tuesday, August 10, 10pm Friday, August 13, 5pm; Saturday, August 14, 10pm Wonderland big face

8 9 Theatre

Redheaded Stepchild Ride the Cyclone Me Happy Biographies of the Dead and Dying

word! sound! powah! Young Artist Productions WARNING: Txtual Content ;) National Series The National Series is a rare opportunity to see work from some of By d’bi. young. Presented by anitafrika! dub theatre. By the AHSS Grade 12 Drama Class. Directed by Brianne Step Right Up the top indie-theatre artists from around the country. This year, Design by Owais Lightwala. Featuring d’bi.young. Haydon. Presented by Applewood Heights Secondary School. SummerWorks has selected four productions from outside of Ontario: stxman featuring the STX-elements of rhythm | aspects of life By The AMY Project 2010 Ensemble. Directed by Claire Calnan Music performed by Warren Robinson, Noelia Severino & & Weyni Mengesha. Presented by The AMY Project. Lighting Avatar, by Freya Olafson (Winnipeg); The Haunted Hillbilly, by what happened to the revolution in jamaica? km hunter 2010 theatre Ty Mayers. Featuring Caden MacKinnon, Warren Robinson, Design by Susie Jaroszewska. Design Mentoring by Kimberly Graham Cuthbertson (Montreal); Molotov Circus, by Debbie Patterson award recipient d’bi.young completes her biomyth monodrama trilogy Samantha Clark, Carla Romeo, Jessica Belanger, Omar Ismail, Purtell. Mentoring by Tara Beagan, Jemeni, Rosa Laborde, Anita (Winnipeg); and Ride the Cyclone, by Jacob Richmond and Brooke charting the life of three generations of afrikan-jamaican womben Samantha Fudge, Megan Kernaghan, Adnan Habibovic, Kurt Majumdar, Caroline Mangosing, Motion, Hannah Moscovitch, Maxwell (Victoria). in her final story entitled word! sound! powah! in word! sound! powah!, Bratsberg, Samantha Capizzano, Shan Thind, Uros Bozovic, Afrakaren Niles, Liisa Repo-Martell & Ania Soul. Featuring Copper, the granddaughter of mudgu who we meet in young’s first two-time Ty Mayers, Mirza Mujic, Konnor Williams, Amanda Lindsay, Andrea Carter, Domanique Grant, Amber Williams-King, Michelle dora award-winning play blood.claat negotiates her own identity to Kim-Anh Nguyen, Noelia Severino & Stephanie Tucker. S.L.I.P. Green, Alia Etienne, Yodit Teclamariam, Abhi Yogasegaran, the back-drop of a mythologized revolution and the birth of dubpoetry A modern tale of romance where face-to-face communication is (SummerWorks Leadership Intensive Program) Kate Welsh & Shanaise Williams. in jamaica. replaced by cell phones and talking text messages. Boy meets girl Sponsored by the RBC Foundation Step Right Up takes a closer look at the human “oddities” that make and girl’s boyfriend, boy sends girl a text, and service is interrupted Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 60 minutes Now in its second year, S.L.I.P. is a 14-day intensive that focuses us gawk, laugh and cringe. With great feats of courage these emerging by Signal Satan? on the business of the arts. Taking place during the Festival, S.L.I.P. Saturday, August 7, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 5:30pm performers step into the spotlight and invite us to look beyond offers emerging theatre creators an in-depth look into the worlds of Tuesday, August 10, 8pm; Thursday, August 12, 10:30pm society’s game of smoke and mirrors and see the complex truth that When words fail, texts do all the talking . . . sometimes they even get the message right. Producing, Fundraising, Marketing, Publicity Grant Writing and much Friday, August 13, 3pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm lies beneath. more. Participants have the opportunity to learn from some of the Patron warning: Txtual content ;) Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes most sought after professionals in the industry, see productions in the Venue A: Festival and network with companies producing as part of Summer- Special Presentation Friday, August 6, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Factory Theatre Mainspace 50 minutes Works. S.L.I.P., conceived by Michael Rubenfeld and Jordi Mand, was Sunday, August 8, 2pm; Wednesday, August 11, 6pm Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm born out of a desire to provide emerging artists with theatrical tools The Foreign Exchange Thursday, August 12, 8pm; Friday, August 13, 10pm Sunday, August 15, 2:30pm that may not be offered at theatre school. The program provides recent By the Ministry of Foreign Exchange. Presented by New Harlem Saturday, August 14, 6pm graduates with a practical introduction to the industry. Productions & SummerWorks. Design & technology by Keith Under 25 Reading Series Barker & Isidra Cruz. Featuring Nisha Ahuja, Cole J Alvis, Falen This year’s participants are Meredith Anderson, Rebecca Applebaum, Sears Drama Festival Partnership Hear work from young, talented, emerging writers. Playwrights have Johnson, Michael Rubenfeld, Nawa Nicole Simon & DM St. Nathaniel Bryan, Rain Chan, Meg Gennings, Chala Hunter, Cassandra SummerWorks presents two plays from the Sears Ontario Drama each been paired with an exciting director to help lift their stories off Bernard. Piroutz, Tanisha Taitt, Andrew Robinson, Sigrid Velis and Evan Vipond. Festival regional level finals. One student-written play is also chosen the page. Pay What You Can. What if you could ask anybody anything about their race or culture, to receive professional development and a workshop reading. S.L.I.P. will be facilitated by Julie Tepperman and Aaron Willis. no matter what the question was? No Such Thing We think you we can, and we’re going to try to prove it. Faust: ich mochte By Josh Korngut One-part performance. One-part conference. One-part social Created by the Ensemble. Directed by Jean Luc-Moniz, Kimberly No Such Thing tells the story of two highly unstable individuals thrown experiment. In The Foreign Exchange six candid conversationalists Phan & Gaspare Bellissimo. Presented by Teodoro Dragonieri into a colourful but dangerous collective consciousness by a spate of bring you a live, unedited, unrehearsed and very direct look at our Productions & Dante Alighieri Academy Drama. Musical mysterious crimes in their neighbourhood. A play of anxieties, talking mutual otherness by bringing ignorance, intelligence and hearts to Conducting by Gaspare Bellissimo. Music performed by John radios, wallthings and mousepeople. the table. Rugosi, Oscar Anesetti, Morad Saad & Kevin Dutra. Make-up by Venue B: Factory Theatre Studio Refreshments will be served. Katherine Collesano. Featuring Tiago Abreu, Brittany Melo, Rebecca LaFortune, Samantha Bianchi, Stewart Constante, Erika Monday, August 9, 3pm Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre Graham, Jessica Cabecas, Michael Henry, Melisa Carlosena, Tuesday, August 10, 7pm; Wednesday, August, 11 4:30pm Tiago Ortega, Paulo Paiva, Concetta Mastrangelo, Wilma St Holl, Blood Buds Thursday, August 12, 7pm; Sunday, August 15, 2pm Janice Sousa, Amanda Calabretta, Pedro Dias, Melissa Tavares, By Anika Johnson & Barbara Johnston Christine Jose & Virgilio Liorti. Blood Buds is a dark musical comedy based on a true story. Two days Based on the centuries-old German tale of Dr. Faustus, Faust: ich before her wedding, Sheila’s uncle shoots himself in his bathroom, möchte presents the adventure of a young man in pursuit of an identity. leaving Sheila and her childhood friends to clean up the bloody mess. In his quest he encounters Lucinda, a beautiful, sensual and provocative As the afternoon progresses, it becomes apparent that Sheila must woman who takes a particular interest in his struggle. Through know more than she’s letting on – but by the time the truth is revealed, manipulation, coercion and seduction, the temptress guides Faust everyone’s hands are dirty. towards an end, and ultimately his new identity. Venue B: Factory Theatre Studio Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 50 minutes Thursday, August 12, 3pm Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Monday, August 9, 5pm Friday, August 13, 10pm

10 11 Theatre

Redheaded Stepchild Ride the Cyclone Me Happy Biographies of the Dead and Dying

word! sound! powah! Young Artist Productions WARNING: Txtual Content ;) National Series The National Series is a rare opportunity to see work from some of By d’bi. young. Presented by anitafrika! dub theatre. By the AHSS Grade 12 Drama Class. Directed by Brianne Step Right Up the top indie-theatre artists from around the country. This year, Design by Owais Lightwala. Featuring d’bi.young. Haydon. Presented by Applewood Heights Secondary School. SummerWorks has selected four productions from outside of Ontario: stxman featuring the STX-elements of rhythm | aspects of life By The AMY Project 2010 Ensemble. Directed by Claire Calnan Music performed by Warren Robinson, Noelia Severino & & Weyni Mengesha. Presented by The AMY Project. Lighting Avatar, by Freya Olafson (Winnipeg); The Haunted Hillbilly, by what happened to the revolution in jamaica? km hunter 2010 theatre Ty Mayers. Featuring Caden MacKinnon, Warren Robinson, Design by Susie Jaroszewska. Design Mentoring by Kimberly Graham Cuthbertson (Montreal); Molotov Circus, by Debbie Patterson award recipient d’bi.young completes her biomyth monodrama trilogy Samantha Clark, Carla Romeo, Jessica Belanger, Omar Ismail, Purtell. Mentoring by Tara Beagan, Jemeni, Rosa Laborde, Anita (Winnipeg); and Ride the Cyclone, by Jacob Richmond and Brooke charting the life of three generations of afrikan-jamaican womben Samantha Fudge, Megan Kernaghan, Adnan Habibovic, Kurt Majumdar, Caroline Mangosing, Motion, Hannah Moscovitch, Maxwell (Victoria). in her final story entitled word! sound! powah! in word! sound! powah!, Bratsberg, Samantha Capizzano, Shan Thind, Uros Bozovic, Afrakaren Niles, Liisa Repo-Martell & Ania Soul. Featuring Copper, the granddaughter of mudgu who we meet in young’s first two-time Ty Mayers, Mirza Mujic, Konnor Williams, Amanda Lindsay, Andrea Carter, Domanique Grant, Amber Williams-King, Michelle dora award-winning play blood.claat negotiates her own identity to Kim-Anh Nguyen, Noelia Severino & Stephanie Tucker. S.L.I.P. Green, Alia Etienne, Yodit Teclamariam, Abhi Yogasegaran, the back-drop of a mythologized revolution and the birth of dubpoetry A modern tale of romance where face-to-face communication is (SummerWorks Leadership Intensive Program) Kate Welsh & Shanaise Williams. in jamaica. replaced by cell phones and talking text messages. Boy meets girl Sponsored by the RBC Foundation Step Right Up takes a closer look at the human “oddities” that make and girl’s boyfriend, boy sends girl a text, and service is interrupted Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 60 minutes Now in its second year, S.L.I.P. is a 14-day intensive that focuses us gawk, laugh and cringe. With great feats of courage these emerging by Signal Satan? on the business of the arts. Taking place during the Festival, S.L.I.P. Saturday, August 7, 12:30pm; Sunday, August 8, 5:30pm performers step into the spotlight and invite us to look beyond offers emerging theatre creators an in-depth look into the worlds of Tuesday, August 10, 8pm; Thursday, August 12, 10:30pm society’s game of smoke and mirrors and see the complex truth that When words fail, texts do all the talking . . . sometimes they even get the message right. Producing, Fundraising, Marketing, Publicity Grant Writing and much Friday, August 13, 3pm; Saturday, August 14, 8pm lies beneath. more. Participants have the opportunity to learn from some of the Patron warning: Txtual content ;) Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 75 minutes most sought after professionals in the industry, see productions in the Venue A: Festival and network with companies producing as part of Summer- Special Presentation Friday, August 6, 8pm; Saturday, August 7, 10pm Factory Theatre Mainspace 50 minutes Works. S.L.I.P., conceived by Michael Rubenfeld and Jordi Mand, was Sunday, August 8, 2pm; Wednesday, August 11, 6pm Saturday, August 7, 7:30pm; Wednesday, August 11, 7:30pm born out of a desire to provide emerging artists with theatrical tools The Foreign Exchange Thursday, August 12, 8pm; Friday, August 13, 10pm Sunday, August 15, 2:30pm that may not be offered at theatre school. The program provides recent By the Ministry of Foreign Exchange. Presented by New Harlem Saturday, August 14, 6pm graduates with a practical introduction to the industry. Productions & SummerWorks. Design & technology by Keith Under 25 Reading Series Barker & Isidra Cruz. Featuring Nisha Ahuja, Cole J Alvis, Falen This year’s participants are Meredith Anderson, Rebecca Applebaum, Sears Drama Festival Partnership Hear work from young, talented, emerging writers. Playwrights have Johnson, Michael Rubenfeld, Nawa Nicole Simon & DM St. Nathaniel Bryan, Rain Chan, Meg Gennings, Chala Hunter, Cassandra SummerWorks presents two plays from the Sears Ontario Drama each been paired with an exciting director to help lift their stories off Bernard. Piroutz, Tanisha Taitt, Andrew Robinson, Sigrid Velis and Evan Vipond. Festival regional level finals. One student-written play is also chosen the page. Pay What You Can. What if you could ask anybody anything about their race or culture, to receive professional development and a workshop reading. S.L.I.P. will be facilitated by Julie Tepperman and Aaron Willis. no matter what the question was? No Such Thing We think you we can, and we’re going to try to prove it. Faust: ich mochte By Josh Korngut One-part performance. One-part conference. One-part social Created by the Ensemble. Directed by Jean Luc-Moniz, Kimberly No Such Thing tells the story of two highly unstable individuals thrown experiment. In The Foreign Exchange six candid conversationalists Phan & Gaspare Bellissimo. Presented by Teodoro Dragonieri into a colourful but dangerous collective consciousness by a spate of bring you a live, unedited, unrehearsed and very direct look at our Productions & Dante Alighieri Academy Drama. Musical mysterious crimes in their neighbourhood. A play of anxieties, talking mutual otherness by bringing ignorance, intelligence and hearts to Conducting by Gaspare Bellissimo. Music performed by John radios, wallthings and mousepeople. the table. Rugosi, Oscar Anesetti, Morad Saad & Kevin Dutra. Make-up by Venue B: Factory Theatre Studio Refreshments will be served. Katherine Collesano. Featuring Tiago Abreu, Brittany Melo, Rebecca LaFortune, Samantha Bianchi, Stewart Constante, Erika Monday, August 9, 3pm Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre Graham, Jessica Cabecas, Michael Henry, Melisa Carlosena, Tuesday, August 10, 7pm; Wednesday, August, 11 4:30pm Tiago Ortega, Paulo Paiva, Concetta Mastrangelo, Wilma St Holl, Blood Buds Thursday, August 12, 7pm; Sunday, August 15, 2pm Janice Sousa, Amanda Calabretta, Pedro Dias, Melissa Tavares, By Anika Johnson & Barbara Johnston Christine Jose & Virgilio Liorti. Blood Buds is a dark musical comedy based on a true story. Two days Based on the centuries-old German tale of Dr. Faustus, Faust: ich before her wedding, Sheila’s uncle shoots himself in his bathroom, möchte presents the adventure of a young man in pursuit of an identity. leaving Sheila and her childhood friends to clean up the bloody mess. In his quest he encounters Lucinda, a beautiful, sensual and provocative As the afternoon progresses, it becomes apparent that Sheila must woman who takes a particular interest in his struggle. Through know more than she’s letting on – but by the time the truth is revealed, manipulation, coercion and seduction, the temptress guides Faust everyone’s hands are dirty. towards an end, and ultimately his new identity. Venue B: Factory Theatre Studio Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 50 minutes Thursday, August 12, 3pm Thursday, August 5, 10pm; Monday, August 9, 5pm Friday, August 13, 10pm

10 11 Music Series

Thursday, August 5 & Friday, August 6 Ten nights of incredible local bands and music theatre concerts in our new Music Series home: the Hidden Cameras The Lower Ossington Theatre. It’s hard to describe Origin: Orphan, The Hidden Cameras’ latest release, as anything but an evolutionary leap beyond their previous efforts. With this album, their fourth studio record proper, Toronto’s Doors at 10pm. All shows $10. A Mainstage ticket self-proclaimed “mild-mannered army” have sunk their roots deeper, also gets you free admission into the Performance Bar branched wider and gained a new musical maturity – simultaneously finding inspiration from more unexpected sources and creating some that evening. of their catchiest songs to date. Origin: Orphan bridges cities: tracks All shows at The Lower Ossington Theatre, were recorded in Toronto, but overdubbed in Berlin and London. Mainstage Theatre on the second floor. Upbeat, up-tempo pop songs with joyful, taboo-busting lyrics have always been The Hidden Cameras’ forte, however this latest album Venue G features more intricate textures and varied atmospheres, often darker ones. The processional pace, minor key and dramatic orchestration The Music Series is generously sponsored by: of strings and horns in Origin: Orphan is an invitation from the band to us – an invitation to ratify the new.

Saturday, August 7 The ElastoCitizens The ElastoCitizens are ass-shaking epic concert makers. Grinding guitars, nasty girl-group dancing, feedback bass-lines, a heavy horn section and multiple singers make their concerts an electrifyingly original live music experience. Schooled in funk and inspired by punk, The ElastoCitizens’ shows are a monumental dance experience. The raw passion and energy of their live concerts has made the large-scale shows must-see music events for those in the know.

ian Kamau “My name is Ian Kamau: I am an artist. I believe my ability to create is connected to my purpose. I was raised in Toronto to filmmaker parents. I believe in community. I am a founding member of an organization called Nia, an afro-diasporic arts centre. I make music.”

Bocce

Ian Kamau

Diamond Rings Evening Hymns The Hidden Cameras

12 13 Music Series

Thursday, August 5 & Friday, August 6 Ten nights of incredible local bands and music theatre concerts in our new Music Series home: the Hidden Cameras The Lower Ossington Theatre. It’s hard to describe Origin: Orphan, The Hidden Cameras’ latest release, as anything but an evolutionary leap beyond their previous efforts. With this album, their fourth studio record proper, Toronto’s Doors at 10pm. All shows $10. A Mainstage ticket self-proclaimed “mild-mannered army” have sunk their roots deeper, also gets you free admission into the Performance Bar branched wider and gained a new musical maturity – simultaneously finding inspiration from more unexpected sources and creating some that evening. of their catchiest songs to date. Origin: Orphan bridges cities: tracks All shows at The Lower Ossington Theatre, were recorded in Toronto, but overdubbed in Berlin and London. Mainstage Theatre on the second floor. Upbeat, up-tempo pop songs with joyful, taboo-busting lyrics have always been The Hidden Cameras’ forte, however this latest album Venue G features more intricate textures and varied atmospheres, often darker ones. The processional pace, minor key and dramatic orchestration The Music Series is generously sponsored by: of strings and horns in Origin: Orphan is an invitation from the band to us – an invitation to ratify the new.

Saturday, August 7 The ElastoCitizens The ElastoCitizens are ass-shaking epic concert makers. Grinding guitars, nasty girl-group dancing, feedback bass-lines, a heavy horn section and multiple singers make their concerts an electrifyingly original live music experience. Schooled in funk and inspired by punk, The ElastoCitizens’ shows are a monumental dance experience. The raw passion and energy of their live concerts has made the large-scale shows must-see music events for those in the know.

ian Kamau “My name is Ian Kamau: I am an artist. I believe my ability to create is connected to my purpose. I was raised in Toronto to filmmaker parents. I believe in community. I am a founding member of an organization called Nia, an afro-diasporic arts centre. I make music.”

Bocce

Ian Kamau

Diamond Rings Evening Hymns The Hidden Cameras

12 13 Music Series

Musical Works in Concert Tuesday, August 10 Thursday, August 12 Friday, August 13 Musical Works in Concert was created to provide an opportunity for MUSICAL WORKS: Biggish Kids Wilderness of Manitoba Evening Hymns creators, composers and lyricists to showcase musical work in Music & Lyrics by Bram Gielen. Music Performed by Victor Something special happens when the four members of Wilderness of Evening Hymns are sung from the cathedrals of tall trees. They capture development. Taking its cue from the SummerWorks mandate, each Cheng (piano), Thom Gill (guitar), Bram Gielen (bass) & Nico Manitoba sing together, whether it’s in the house on Delaware Avenue the spirit of moments, of friends around a bonfire on a foggy beach, the of the pieces selected as part of this year’s series explore specific Dann (drums). Featuring Allie Hughes, Alicia Toner, Sara in Toronto where three of them live or in the garage out back where crunching of snowshoes in the silence of a winter night and memories theatrical and musical aesthetics. The three works being presented this Farb & Alex Samaras. they sometimes staged their own shows including their live debut. The of tribal boys growing up with pellet guns, fishing and handmade forts. year are full-length musicals that will be done in concert-style format. Biggish Kids is a brand-new song cycle that explores the symbiosis band recorded most of their new album, When You Left The Fire, Songwriter Jonas Bonnetta comes out of the hinterland, along with a between the process of becoming an adult, and the cultural land- as well as their ep, Hymns Of Love & Spirits, in their basement studio. yelping group of banshees and some sweet-singing wood nymphs with Sunday, August 8 scape in which this process occurs. Through song, four people try They learned not to rely on electric instruments, although they now Evening Hymns’ latest release Spirit Guides. to cultivate the appropriate social graces for the world today, while use them, but on the strength of their voices and melodies. The ep MUSICAL WORKS: Prison Dancer constantly interacting with the popular music traditions that shape, went to Number 5 on the CBC Radio 3 charts. Picastro Written by Romeo Candido & Carmen DeJesus. Directed by and are shaped by, these conventions. Examining the intersections Picastro has received much praise for their broodingly beautiful, Romeo Candido. Featuring Normal Alconcel, Pierre Bayuga, between real-life Big Feelings and their manifestations in pop culture, THE MOUNTAINS AND THE TREES Rommel Billanes, Mikey Bustos, Nicco Lorenzo Garcia, melancholic soundscapes, in which cello alternates in the lead with the music of Biggish Kids depicts these relationships with clarity, The Mountains & The Trees, from Newfoundland, are/is Jon Janes. front woman Liz Hysen’s submerged, murmured vocals. Picastro’s Jeigh Madjus, Elaine Salonga, Adriano Sobretodo, Dale Yim surprise and honesty. & Emilio Zarris. His debut full-length I Made This For You was recorded over the winter string-laden dynamics share a kinship with the music of fellow Canadians of 2009/10 in St. John’s, NL, at Henge Studios. He playfully describes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as well as The Dirty Three and Rachels. The Warden of Manila’s Maximum Security Prison is inspired by the Wednesday, August 11 himself as Folk-Pop or Folk-N-Roll. flamboyant Lola to bring group dancing to the prisoners as a means of rehabilitation. Inspired by the Filipino Dancing Inmates from Youtube, Diamond Rings Saturday, August 14 Entire Cities Prison Dancer is about the walls that imprison us and the dreams that In just under a year, Diamond Rings has released three limited edition Bocce set us free. Ascending heir to Toronto’s experimental-tinged folk and country vinyl singles and a series of vibrant music videos that have earned Bocce has toured throughout Canada and played at festivals including praise from Pitchfork, NME and fans around the world. Conceived in scene, Entire Cities is the musical equivalent of a perfect cup of coffee on a shady patio. To the uninitiated, Entire Cities might seem to have Pop Montreal, Hillside Inside, LOLA and Canadian Music Week. Bocce Monday, August 9 the tradition of David Bowie, Brian Eno and Grace Jones, Diamond released a limited edition ep, . . . Should Be an Olympic Sport in 2008 and Rings has as much style as his music has substance and is quickly a personality disorder. From gratuitously confusing time signatures MUSICAL WORKS: Joni Loves Mitchell to delightfully simple hooks, from meticulous choral and instrumental remixed work by several Canadian artists including You Say Party! We becoming known for his dynamic stage presence and inventive pop Say Die!’s “Poison” and Slow Hand Motem’s “Mathemagical.” In Spring Book by Logan Medland. Music by Logan Medland, Jason song structures. arrangements to their glorious train wreck of a live show, the Toronto- based collective has been refusing to be pigeon-holed since 2006. 2010, Bocce released their first full-length album,Disambiguation , both Chesworth and Kim Odine. Directed by Tracy Michailidis. Musical as a physical disc and as a pay-what-you-can digital download. Direction by Logan Medland. Guitar by Ben Payne. Drums by PS I Love You Mark Inneo. Featuring Nicole Underhay, Paul Nolan, Ted Dykstra, The Weather Station Hailing from Kingston, Ontario, PS I Love You was intended to be an Rat Tail Rachel Fischer & Christian Bellsmith. Tamara Lindeman was not a musician when she decided to make music experimental, sort of weird pop music outlet for Paul Saulnier. He After years of sneaking into bars underage to see local indie rock shows, Joni Loves Mitchell is a “rock play” about two singer/songwriters, would play shows with guitar looping pedals and keyboards and lots but, reeling from a personal loss, she found herself curiously drawn to one a naive amateur, the other a local star on the verge of breaking it – sound. On a whim, she borrowed her roommate’s recording equipment Jasmyn Burke started writing music on her own. Rat Tail’s first official and lots of gadgets and gimmicks. He later recruited Benjamin Nelson release was the self-produced basement 7-inch George Mounsey ep who fall in love and fall apart in their quest for love. on drums and all of a sudden PS I Love You’s weird little songs were and got out her newly acquired banjo. What poured forth was nothing less than a cri de coeur. Assembling household items, borrowed on Unfamiliar Records. After some of the 6 Nassau demos leaked becoming mini, soaring rock anthems. They are now a fully realized on the Internet and quickly spread to various blogs, blog site “Said duo, and will be touring and releasing their debut album later this year. instruments and her crystalline voice, she painstakingly created her own kind of folk music – part song and story, part sound collage – that grew the Gramaphone” declared one of the demos number 29 on their into the “vast, honest, and gloriously sad” full-length album, The Line. 75 best of 2009 list.

Picastro

PS I Love You

Prison Dancer Rat Tail Wilderness of Manitoba

14 15 Music Series

Musical Works in Concert Tuesday, August 10 Thursday, August 12 Friday, August 13 Musical Works in Concert was created to provide an opportunity for MUSICAL WORKS: Biggish Kids Wilderness of Manitoba Evening Hymns creators, composers and lyricists to showcase musical work in Music & Lyrics by Bram Gielen. Music Performed by Victor Something special happens when the four members of Wilderness of Evening Hymns are sung from the cathedrals of tall trees. They capture development. Taking its cue from the SummerWorks mandate, each Cheng (piano), Thom Gill (guitar), Bram Gielen (bass) & Nico Manitoba sing together, whether it’s in the house on Delaware Avenue the spirit of moments, of friends around a bonfire on a foggy beach, the of the pieces selected as part of this year’s series explore specific Dann (drums). Featuring Allie Hughes, Alicia Toner, Sara in Toronto where three of them live or in the garage out back where crunching of snowshoes in the silence of a winter night and memories theatrical and musical aesthetics. The three works being presented this Farb & Alex Samaras. they sometimes staged their own shows including their live debut. The of tribal boys growing up with pellet guns, fishing and handmade forts. year are full-length musicals that will be done in concert-style format. Biggish Kids is a brand-new song cycle that explores the symbiosis band recorded most of their new album, When You Left The Fire, Songwriter Jonas Bonnetta comes out of the hinterland, along with a between the process of becoming an adult, and the cultural land- as well as their ep, Hymns Of Love & Spirits, in their basement studio. yelping group of banshees and some sweet-singing wood nymphs with Sunday, August 8 scape in which this process occurs. Through song, four people try They learned not to rely on electric instruments, although they now Evening Hymns’ latest release Spirit Guides. to cultivate the appropriate social graces for the world today, while use them, but on the strength of their voices and melodies. The ep MUSICAL WORKS: Prison Dancer constantly interacting with the popular music traditions that shape, went to Number 5 on the CBC Radio 3 charts. Picastro Written by Romeo Candido & Carmen DeJesus. Directed by and are shaped by, these conventions. Examining the intersections Picastro has received much praise for their broodingly beautiful, Romeo Candido. Featuring Normal Alconcel, Pierre Bayuga, between real-life Big Feelings and their manifestations in pop culture, THE MOUNTAINS AND THE TREES Rommel Billanes, Mikey Bustos, Nicco Lorenzo Garcia, melancholic soundscapes, in which cello alternates in the lead with the music of Biggish Kids depicts these relationships with clarity, The Mountains & The Trees, from Newfoundland, are/is Jon Janes. front woman Liz Hysen’s submerged, murmured vocals. Picastro’s Jeigh Madjus, Elaine Salonga, Adriano Sobretodo, Dale Yim surprise and honesty. & Emilio Zarris. His debut full-length I Made This For You was recorded over the winter string-laden dynamics share a kinship with the music of fellow Canadians of 2009/10 in St. John’s, NL, at Henge Studios. He playfully describes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as well as The Dirty Three and Rachels. The Warden of Manila’s Maximum Security Prison is inspired by the Wednesday, August 11 himself as Folk-Pop or Folk-N-Roll. flamboyant Lola to bring group dancing to the prisoners as a means of rehabilitation. Inspired by the Filipino Dancing Inmates from Youtube, Diamond Rings Saturday, August 14 Entire Cities Prison Dancer is about the walls that imprison us and the dreams that In just under a year, Diamond Rings has released three limited edition Bocce set us free. Ascending heir to Toronto’s experimental-tinged folk and country vinyl singles and a series of vibrant music videos that have earned Bocce has toured throughout Canada and played at festivals including praise from Pitchfork, NME and fans around the world. Conceived in scene, Entire Cities is the musical equivalent of a perfect cup of coffee on a shady patio. To the uninitiated, Entire Cities might seem to have Pop Montreal, Hillside Inside, LOLA and Canadian Music Week. Bocce Monday, August 9 the tradition of David Bowie, Brian Eno and Grace Jones, Diamond released a limited edition ep, . . . Should Be an Olympic Sport in 2008 and Rings has as much style as his music has substance and is quickly a personality disorder. From gratuitously confusing time signatures MUSICAL WORKS: Joni Loves Mitchell to delightfully simple hooks, from meticulous choral and instrumental remixed work by several Canadian artists including You Say Party! We becoming known for his dynamic stage presence and inventive pop Say Die!’s “Poison” and Slow Hand Motem’s “Mathemagical.” In Spring Book by Logan Medland. Music by Logan Medland, Jason song structures. arrangements to their glorious train wreck of a live show, the Toronto- based collective has been refusing to be pigeon-holed since 2006. 2010, Bocce released their first full-length album,Disambiguation , both Chesworth and Kim Odine. Directed by Tracy Michailidis. Musical as a physical disc and as a pay-what-you-can digital download. Direction by Logan Medland. Guitar by Ben Payne. Drums by PS I Love You Mark Inneo. Featuring Nicole Underhay, Paul Nolan, Ted Dykstra, The Weather Station Hailing from Kingston, Ontario, PS I Love You was intended to be an Rat Tail Rachel Fischer & Christian Bellsmith. Tamara Lindeman was not a musician when she decided to make music experimental, sort of weird pop music outlet for Paul Saulnier. He After years of sneaking into bars underage to see local indie rock shows, Joni Loves Mitchell is a “rock play” about two singer/songwriters, would play shows with guitar looping pedals and keyboards and lots but, reeling from a personal loss, she found herself curiously drawn to one a naive amateur, the other a local star on the verge of breaking it – sound. On a whim, she borrowed her roommate’s recording equipment Jasmyn Burke started writing music on her own. Rat Tail’s first official and lots of gadgets and gimmicks. He later recruited Benjamin Nelson release was the self-produced basement 7-inch George Mounsey ep who fall in love and fall apart in their quest for love. on drums and all of a sudden PS I Love You’s weird little songs were and got out her newly acquired banjo. What poured forth was nothing less than a cri de coeur. Assembling household items, borrowed on Unfamiliar Records. After some of the 6 Nassau demos leaked becoming mini, soaring rock anthems. They are now a fully realized on the Internet and quickly spread to various blogs, blog site “Said duo, and will be touring and releasing their debut album later this year. instruments and her crystalline voice, she painstakingly created her own kind of folk music – part song and story, part sound collage – that grew the Gramaphone” declared one of the demos number 29 on their into the “vast, honest, and gloriously sad” full-length album, The Line. 75 best of 2009 list.

Picastro

PS I Love You

Prison Dancer Rat Tail Wilderness of Manitoba

14 15 Performance Bar

Friday, August 6 Tuesday, August 10 Maylee Todd Colleen & Paul Meet quirky songstress Maylee Todd, the multi-talented singer/song- Colleen and Paul are singers, songwriters and guitarists. She’s a highly writer with an appetite for obscure instruments. If you ask Maylee how imaginative wordsmith; he’s a musical wizard with an intuitive flair for she manages to play the Paraguayan harp as well as she does the melody. Together, they have forged a unique style, one that defies a simple guitar, she’ll tell you “anyone can do it.” But we’ve tried and that’s not definition: 60s folk-pop with indie rock influences, with hues of psychedelia true. Born to an English/French father and a Filipino/Spanish mother, painted via Colleen’s sometimes surreal but always engaging lyrics. this skilful young lady has many strings to her bow (or harp, rather). You may know her from the humorous interactive aerobics events BOBLO (Kitchen Band) called “SweatshopHop” that have aired on Canada’s Much More Music. Boblo is a live-action operatic radio play based on the myths and legends of an abandoned amusement park on an island in the Detroit Jeremy Bailey River. Erin Brandenburg is a playwright/performer and artistic Jeremy Bailey is a Canadian video and performance artist whose work director of Kitchen Band Productions. Andrew Penner is a musician, is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies songwriter, actor, sound designer and one third of the band The of new media vocabularies. His work has been featured in numerous Sunparlour Players. exhibitions and festivals internationally. Wednesday, August 11 Saturday, August 7 Grand Analog Ghost Bees Band leader and creator, Odario Williams, describes the Grand Analog Ghost Bees are twin sisters Romy and Sari Lightman. Over antique sound as a beautiful mess of rap’n’roll, dub and soul. The band’s mandolin, guitar and violist accompaniment, Ghost Bees weaves delicate critically acclaimed new album, Metropolis Is Burning, boasts an infec- harmonies, dispensing dramatic tales and sorrowful laments like a two- tious array of soundscapes that is unbalanced and dirty, never clean. headed balladeer. Fuzzy with three coats of dust and reads like an old manual no longer in use, Grand Analog fiends on tackling any stage presented to them, Company Blonde any place any time . . . no matter the genre. Company Blonde has a unique and vital presence in the independent dance scene in Canada. Since its inception in 1999, Company Blonde Atomic Vaudeville meets The National Theatre has been dedicated to creating dance works that are accessible to a of the World vast audience of all ages, blending comedy and theatre with classical Atomic Vaudeville (from Victoria), together with The National Theatre modern dance. Company Blonde strives to tell stories and share of the World, brings a version of their beloved cult hit cabaret show to experiences that speak to our community and our culture, while always the Performance Bar. The shows are a short-form mélange of theatre, keeping the audience at the forefront of their work. music, song, dance, puppetry and sketch – an adoption of the rough vaudeville form reconceived for the present age, which attracts an audience hungry for a live, entertaining and relevant theatrical art form. Sunday, August 8 The National Theatre of the World Laura Barrett Thursday, August 12 A virtuoso on the kalimba – an African instrument also known as the Claire et Tom Every Night at 9PM thumb piano – Toronto-based singer/songwriter Laura Barrett also Ten nights mixing theatre, music and performance at plays with indie pop collective The Hidden Cameras. Barrett’s own music Claire et Tom perform fantastic French songs. From 60s songs by the first-ever SummerWorks Performance Bar. Each The National Theatre of the World presents: is simpler, often consisting of just the kalimba and her voice, and Barbara and Boris Vian to tunes Tom heard while watching nouveau Fiasco Playhouse! night features short sets by some of Toronto’s best live often quirkier: she began her solo career with a very different cover vague films. Tom plays the piano and Claire sings, except when Tom From the people who bring you the award-winning improvised play of the grunge parody “Smells Like Nirvana,” which she performed at sings, then Claire dances a little. acts. Also featuring a ten-night stint from local improv series Impromptu Splendor and the weekly cult hit variety show a Weird Al tribute show. Her song “Deception Island Optimists Club,” heroes The National Theatre of the World. The Carnegie Hall Show. A crack team of Toronto’s most virtuosic on the other hand, is as wry as it is bleak, and was a finalist for the Cowgirl Choir Improvisers joining forces in crime to reinvent the world! The newest SOCAN ECHO songwriting prize. Paper Bag Records signed Barrett The ladies of the Cowgirl Choir were plucked from the stages of open- and most dangerous innovations in improvisation! Join these lunatics and issued her debut ep, Earth Sciences, in early 2008. She recruited mic nights and theatre shows, and from behind shower curtains across Doors at 8pm. Show at 9pm. hell bent on pushing the boundaries of utter catastrophe and pioneer- double bassist Richard Carnegie and other Toronto-area musicians Toronto. They’ve come together to sing songs of lament, celebration ing new theatre frontiers! A singular wild experiment each night of for her full-length debut, Victory Garden, which arrived in spring 2009. Full Bar. Air Conditioned. and rebellion, and to honour some of the finest songwriters from the SummerWorks with Special guests too! Pay What You Can (at the door only). Appalachian Mountains to the great plains of Saskatchewan. Featuring Matt Baram, Ron Pederson & Naomi Snieckus. Istvan Kantor All shows at The Lower Ossington Theatre, Infamous for his “blood-x donations” to the collections of the Museum Populist Manifesto #1 ground level studio. Venue K of Modern Art (New York), the National Gallery (Ottawa), the AGO Thursday, August 5 Poets, come out of your closets, open your windows, open your doors, (Toronto) and the Ludwig Museum (Koln), just to mention a few, Kantor’s you have been holed up too long in your closed worlds. Allie Hughes criminal record is even longer than his list of awards. The media and Allie’s theatre-influenced alternative pop songs, her unique sound critics have described his work as rebellious, anti-authoritarian and By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Directed by Rebecca Singh. and “quirky” stage presence are unlike any one artist but her new intellectually assaulting, as well as technically innovative and highly material has been compared to Kate Bush and Nina Hagen. She is experimental. He is internationally known as the founder of Neoism. Friday, August 13 currently recording her debut album with producers Dave Newfeld Istvan Kantor’s work has been shown at many prestigious international (Broken Social Scene), Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett) and Adam King art events, including Documenta ’87 and Ars Electronica 2000. Nifty (Run With Kittens) to be released fall 2010. Harmony next to dissonance, folk next to noise, songwriting beside Monday, August 9 soulful house and many places in and around and between. Nifty is an Zeesy Powers experiment in expectations. THOMAS The truth is valuable, related to, yet independent of, fact. Zeesy Powers offers you a truthful response to any question you pose. With elements of every pop cliché executed brilliantly and fashionably, Bob Wiseman THOMAS is tasteful, sexcellent, and most importantly, strange. Zeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist who works with technology, He’ll still probably never end up on pop radio, but he’s one of the rare the body, people and consequences. Based in Toronto, her work has masters of that delicate turn of phrase that changes what started out been exhibited and screened across North America, Europe and Asia. Snowblink sounding like a joke into a truly moving moment. Her recent projection performance, The Ghost, has been shown to With a sweet wistfulness, Snowblink crafts melodies around unaffected packed audiences in Berlin, Montreal and LA. In 2009 she told people guitar lines and tender vocals. Having recently toured with Owen Pallett, Saturday August 14 exactly what she thought of them in front of a live audience at a corpo- Snowblink is primed to invite the rest of the world to their campfire rate “Innovation Conference,” confusing many with her lack of product. in 2011. A Gothic Salon, starring The Scandelles In 2008 she gave away $1,000 as part of the Zeesy Powers Grant. In Escape from the unremitting splendour of summer with an evening 2007 she was anyone’s girlfriend for three minutes during an exhausting Everyboy that celebrates the sinister, the dank and the despairing. performance. She continues to struggle to find meaning. Told entirely with puppets, Everyboy is a piece in development Melancholic Peepshows, Deathly Lap Dances, Worst Case that explores the limitless and volatile nature of children on the cusp Scenario Tarot Card Readings, Peevish, Faux Roma Psychics, of adolescence. Gripping Tales of Near Death Experiences Hosted by the resplendently moody Sasha Van Bon Bon. With special guests.

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Friday, August 6 Tuesday, August 10 Maylee Todd Colleen & Paul Meet quirky songstress Maylee Todd, the multi-talented singer/song- Colleen and Paul are singers, songwriters and guitarists. She’s a highly writer with an appetite for obscure instruments. If you ask Maylee how imaginative wordsmith; he’s a musical wizard with an intuitive flair for she manages to play the Paraguayan harp as well as she does the melody. Together, they have forged a unique style, one that defies a simple guitar, she’ll tell you “anyone can do it.” But we’ve tried and that’s not definition: 60s folk-pop with indie rock influences, with hues of psychedelia true. Born to an English/French father and a Filipino/Spanish mother, painted via Colleen’s sometimes surreal but always engaging lyrics. this skilful young lady has many strings to her bow (or harp, rather). You may know her from the humorous interactive aerobics events BOBLO (Kitchen Band) called “SweatshopHop” that have aired on Canada’s Much More Music. Boblo is a live-action operatic radio play based on the myths and legends of an abandoned amusement park on an island in the Detroit Jeremy Bailey River. Erin Brandenburg is a playwright/performer and artistic Jeremy Bailey is a Canadian video and performance artist whose work director of Kitchen Band Productions. Andrew Penner is a musician, is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies songwriter, actor, sound designer and one third of the band The of new media vocabularies. His work has been featured in numerous Sunparlour Players. exhibitions and festivals internationally. Wednesday, August 11 Saturday, August 7 Grand Analog Ghost Bees Band leader and creator, Odario Williams, describes the Grand Analog Ghost Bees are twin sisters Romy and Sari Lightman. Over antique sound as a beautiful mess of rap’n’roll, dub and soul. The band’s mandolin, guitar and violist accompaniment, Ghost Bees weaves delicate critically acclaimed new album, Metropolis Is Burning, boasts an infec- harmonies, dispensing dramatic tales and sorrowful laments like a two- tious array of soundscapes that is unbalanced and dirty, never clean. headed balladeer. Fuzzy with three coats of dust and reads like an old manual no longer in use, Grand Analog fiends on tackling any stage presented to them, Company Blonde any place any time . . . no matter the genre. Company Blonde has a unique and vital presence in the independent dance scene in Canada. Since its inception in 1999, Company Blonde Atomic Vaudeville meets The National Theatre has been dedicated to creating dance works that are accessible to a of the World vast audience of all ages, blending comedy and theatre with classical Atomic Vaudeville (from Victoria), together with The National Theatre modern dance. Company Blonde strives to tell stories and share of the World, brings a version of their beloved cult hit cabaret show to experiences that speak to our community and our culture, while always the Performance Bar. The shows are a short-form mélange of theatre, keeping the audience at the forefront of their work. music, song, dance, puppetry and sketch – an adoption of the rough vaudeville form reconceived for the present age, which attracts an audience hungry for a live, entertaining and relevant theatrical art form. Sunday, August 8 The National Theatre of the World Laura Barrett Thursday, August 12 A virtuoso on the kalimba – an African instrument also known as the Claire et Tom Every Night at 9PM thumb piano – Toronto-based singer/songwriter Laura Barrett also Ten nights mixing theatre, music and performance at plays with indie pop collective The Hidden Cameras. Barrett’s own music Claire et Tom perform fantastic French songs. From 60s songs by the first-ever SummerWorks Performance Bar. Each The National Theatre of the World presents: is simpler, often consisting of just the kalimba and her voice, and Barbara and Boris Vian to tunes Tom heard while watching nouveau Fiasco Playhouse! night features short sets by some of Toronto’s best live often quirkier: she began her solo career with a very different cover vague films. Tom plays the piano and Claire sings, except when Tom From the people who bring you the award-winning improvised play of the grunge parody “Smells Like Nirvana,” which she performed at sings, then Claire dances a little. acts. Also featuring a ten-night stint from local improv series Impromptu Splendor and the weekly cult hit variety show a Weird Al tribute show. Her song “Deception Island Optimists Club,” heroes The National Theatre of the World. The Carnegie Hall Show. A crack team of Toronto’s most virtuosic on the other hand, is as wry as it is bleak, and was a finalist for the Cowgirl Choir Improvisers joining forces in crime to reinvent the world! The newest SOCAN ECHO songwriting prize. Paper Bag Records signed Barrett The ladies of the Cowgirl Choir were plucked from the stages of open- and most dangerous innovations in improvisation! Join these lunatics and issued her debut ep, Earth Sciences, in early 2008. She recruited mic nights and theatre shows, and from behind shower curtains across Doors at 8pm. Show at 9pm. hell bent on pushing the boundaries of utter catastrophe and pioneer- double bassist Richard Carnegie and other Toronto-area musicians Toronto. They’ve come together to sing songs of lament, celebration ing new theatre frontiers! A singular wild experiment each night of for her full-length debut, Victory Garden, which arrived in spring 2009. Full Bar. Air Conditioned. and rebellion, and to honour some of the finest songwriters from the SummerWorks with Special guests too! Pay What You Can (at the door only). Appalachian Mountains to the great plains of Saskatchewan. Featuring Matt Baram, Ron Pederson & Naomi Snieckus. Istvan Kantor All shows at The Lower Ossington Theatre, Infamous for his “blood-x donations” to the collections of the Museum Populist Manifesto #1 ground level studio. Venue K of Modern Art (New York), the National Gallery (Ottawa), the AGO Thursday, August 5 Poets, come out of your closets, open your windows, open your doors, (Toronto) and the Ludwig Museum (Koln), just to mention a few, Kantor’s you have been holed up too long in your closed worlds. Allie Hughes criminal record is even longer than his list of awards. The media and Allie’s theatre-influenced alternative pop songs, her unique sound critics have described his work as rebellious, anti-authoritarian and By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Directed by Rebecca Singh. and “quirky” stage presence are unlike any one artist but her new intellectually assaulting, as well as technically innovative and highly material has been compared to Kate Bush and Nina Hagen. She is experimental. He is internationally known as the founder of Neoism. Friday, August 13 currently recording her debut album with producers Dave Newfeld Istvan Kantor’s work has been shown at many prestigious international (Broken Social Scene), Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett) and Adam King art events, including Documenta ’87 and Ars Electronica 2000. Nifty (Run With Kittens) to be released fall 2010. Harmony next to dissonance, folk next to noise, songwriting beside Monday, August 9 soulful house and many places in and around and between. Nifty is an Zeesy Powers experiment in expectations. THOMAS The truth is valuable, related to, yet independent of, fact. Zeesy Powers offers you a truthful response to any question you pose. With elements of every pop cliché executed brilliantly and fashionably, Bob Wiseman THOMAS is tasteful, sexcellent, and most importantly, strange. Zeesy Powers is an interdisciplinary artist who works with technology, He’ll still probably never end up on pop radio, but he’s one of the rare the body, people and consequences. Based in Toronto, her work has masters of that delicate turn of phrase that changes what started out been exhibited and screened across North America, Europe and Asia. Snowblink sounding like a joke into a truly moving moment. Her recent projection performance, The Ghost, has been shown to With a sweet wistfulness, Snowblink crafts melodies around unaffected packed audiences in Berlin, Montreal and LA. In 2009 she told people guitar lines and tender vocals. Having recently toured with Owen Pallett, Saturday August 14 exactly what she thought of them in front of a live audience at a corpo- Snowblink is primed to invite the rest of the world to their campfire rate “Innovation Conference,” confusing many with her lack of product. in 2011. A Gothic Salon, starring The Scandelles In 2008 she gave away $1,000 as part of the Zeesy Powers Grant. In Escape from the unremitting splendour of summer with an evening 2007 she was anyone’s girlfriend for three minutes during an exhausting Everyboy that celebrates the sinister, the dank and the despairing. performance. She continues to struggle to find meaning. Told entirely with puppets, Everyboy is a piece in development Melancholic Peepshows, Deathly Lap Dances, Worst Case that explores the limitless and volatile nature of children on the cusp Scenario Tarot Card Readings, Peevish, Faux Roma Psychics, of adolescence. Gripping Tales of Near Death Experiences Hosted by the resplendently moody Sasha Van Bon Bon. With special guests.

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour Friday, August 6 SummerWorks presents SummerWalks, now in its August 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15 at 6:30PM / August 8 & 14 at 4PM of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato FLASHQUIZ second year – a set of three distinct walking tours of Invisible Toronto 8PM Break out your book bag and sharpen your pencils! Flashquiz the neighbourhood that hosts our Festival and cradles (as described by guide Falen Johnson) Ever been afraid to walk by Imagine a room where between shows you can leads an interactive look back at what you learned and what you didn’t Queen and Bathurst? I know I was. The first time I walked by that come and play with toys of all sorts – technological learn in middle school. Featuring Canadian songs, flashquizes, and three of our city’s most important theatre venues. intersection I averted my eyes, pretended to be going . . . somewhere . . . and otherwise, and let your imagination wander. show and tell – if you’ve got something to share, bring it in! This is a Through these walks, we invite you to get to know anywhere, late for something, looking straight ahead, never making show that hopes you’ll read a book, ride a bike, sing a song, draw more about the larger community and connect with eye contact. That’s when a young rough looking guy lunged at me and a comic, pet a pony, fly a kite, bake a biscuit, hug a stranger, dance yelled in my face. I jumped. I got mad. I wanted to pull out my status Designers Beth Kates and Ben Chaisson (B&B) with ducks and rhyme with reason . . . after. Maybe even ever-after. a familiar landscape from new, personal perspectives. card and prove something to him but I didn’t, I kept walking. I pretended Flashquiz is Julia Lederer, Haley McGee and Steph Berntson. Three charming guides offer their unique takes on he didn’t exist. Who hasn’t done it? Made someone, something in are creating this place by turning the front rehearsal Toronto invisible? hall of The Lower Ossington Theatre into an inter- the area, doing what theatre artists do best – telling Saturday, August 7 you stories. Let’s take a walk around Queen and Bathurst. It isn’t anywhere you active installation. haven’t been before but it may be a place you have never really seen. GAME DAY The room will be lined with state-of-the-art equipment 11AM Meet us in Trinity Bellwoods Park at the Queen and Strachan All tours run 60–70 minutes in length and depart Falen Johnson is Mohawk and Tuscarora from Six Nations Reserve. such as projectors, screens, cameras, headphones, gates for a morning of capture the flag, freeze tag and other childhood from and return to the Factory Theatre Courtyard She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. Theatre credits speakers, mixers, microphones and a large assortment favourites. warning: it just might dissolve into a big ol’ water fight, so include The Place Between for Cheyikwe Performance and Native bring your super soakers, water balloons, sunscreen and beach balls! (125 Bathurst St.). of “conventional” toys (action figures, Lego blocks, etc.). Earth Performing Arts, The Only Good Indian . . . with Turtle Gals, and All ages welcome. $5 same-day tickets are available from Factory The Triple Truth, Savage, Strong Medicine, Death of a Chief and A Very Polite Genocide with Native Earth. Most recently Falen was in The Based loosely on Montessori and Waldorf Education 1PM Come back to the Playground for a pizza lunch. Join us for Theatre Courtyard box office techniques of self-guided play, and a long history interactive “video” games including super-competitive live-action board Ecstasy of Rita Joe for Western Canada Theatre and the NAC. Her games, big screen battleship championships and more! $5 advance tickets (plus service charge) are first play, Salt Baby, was produced by Native Earth at Theatre Passe of goofing off, The Playground invites participants to Muraille last fall. explore and create and most importantly have fun. 8PM Epic Co-ed Pillow Fight Tournament. Relying on official Pillow available online at www.artsboxoffice.ca or by phone Fighting rules, a celebrity panel will select only one champion. at 416 504 7529 Stay for as long or as short as you like, but come often everyone is a pillow fighter inside. August 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14 at 6:30PM / August 7 & 15 at 4PM as the Playground will develop throughout the festival Rules: $12 for a 3-Walk Pass (available in person from A Heartbreaking Walk of Staggering Genius and will be quite different day to day. anyone can sign up. Pairs are matched by size and skill or can any SummerWorks box office starting August 5; (as described by guide Daniel Sadavoy) The advantage of having be specifically requested. pass is for same-day use) “been around the block a few times” is that you gain wisdom that you In addition to the interactive side, Cara Gee and Natasha Matches are five minutes long and are judged by a panel using the ten- can impart on your kids. But I don’t have kids. Will you be my kids? Just Greenblatt have programmed events to engage with point system. Points awarded for endurance, gusto and pillow precision. for an hour . . . the spirit and technology of the Playground both inside Play nice. It’s a pillow fight. Discover the best and worst romantic locales the neighbourhood has to offer. Join Daniel Sadavoy as he relives all the romance and Be prepared to play more than one match if you advance. Winner is and outside of The Lower Ossington Theatre. heartbreak he has experienced within a three-block radius of Factory crowned Pillow Fighting Champion of the Festival. Keep your eye out for the candy bar. Theatre. Learn from someone else’s experience why it’s a bad idea to propose an open relationship at Czehoski. And why you’d be much The Playground installation is free and open every day Sunday, August 8 better off doing it at Coca. of the Festival from 12–8pm (later during events). ARTS/CRAFTS Get a detailed map of the local erogenous zones. Now you’ll know 11AM–5PM Come to the Playground for experiments in storytelling. where to find whatever you’re looking for. Choose your own adventure: Create dolls and puppets that dance across a projected background. Get messy with finger paints, glue and Daniel Sadavoy is a Toronto-based writer and actor. He has published pipe cleaners. Experiment using physical and technological toys to tell articles in The Canadian Theatre Review and CanPlay Magazine about stories. Press buttons. Paint on walls. Let your imagination run wild. his experience as assistant producer of the National CrossCurrents Just don’t eat the crayons. Festival under Nina Lee Aquino in 2008. With Rebecca Applebaum, he wrote and performed in the Steady State Theatre Project production Don’t Look, which NOW Magazine named an Outstanding Production Friday, August 13 at the 2007 Toronto Fringe Festival and which was selected for revival Music-Video-Making at the January 2009 Next Stage Theatre Festival. Daniel has helped develop plays in several dramaturgical settings, including The Taxi Project 11AM–6PM A make-your-own-music-video extravaganza! Remember for PEN Canada, fu-GEN’s Potluck Festival under Marjorie Chan, the Canada’s Wonderland? After a hot week of theatrical roller-coasters, HOTscrawls Festival with TheatreKairos, and the biweekly Playwright’s come discover the wonder of starring in your own music video Circle with the Steady State Theatre Project. with wacky green screens and pop classics. Manipulate your video backgrounds in real time. Choose from our playlist or bring your mp3 player and lip synch to win! We’ll be there to help. August 6, 7, 13 & 14 at 9PM 8PM A star-studded, gala screening of the day’s hottest and most Uncle Lindy’s Quit Yer Snivelin’ Tour of Life hilarious videos. (No videos will be left out.) A panel of music industry (our after dark tour, as described by guide Lindy Zucker) Who is judges will critique and award prizes in several categories including Uncle Lindy? He/she is certainly not YOUR uncle but Uncle Lindy best dance moves, best videography and much more. is definitely your friend, so that makes it okay to follow her/him through the streets of Toronto at 9pm. Where will you be going at such a late, Saturday, August 14 late hour? Don’t worry. Uncle Lindy knows the way and he/she would never lead you astray. And you might learn something? Yes! Learning Scavenger Hunt PARTY & is good. Dance Class/Dance PartY Will it be interesting trivia about Toronto that you can then share at 11AM Meet us at the Playground for the Official First Ever SummerWorks pompous cocktail parties? Probably not. West Side Scavenger Hunt. Choose a partner or let fate choose for you and go! With the SummerWorks venues as our borders, we will Come learn with Uncle Lindy and bring a flashlight because things get rediscover the parks, shops and secret treasures of this corner of the dark at 9pm. Uncle Lindy can’t wait to walk with all the boys and girls city. With prizes for the first team back and the most creative bounty, (not suitable for actual children). this is one Hunt you won’t want to miss. Lindy Zucker operates from every side of the world of theatre as 8PM Aurora Stewart de Pena leads an hour-long dance class of the an actor, writer, curator, producer, freelance technician and facetious shameless pop variety. Deck yourself out in your flashiest dance class performance artist. She is currently an Associate Artist of the dance gear and learn some sweet moves. Beginners are welcome! SummerWorks Theatre Festival. Her performance work (and/or handy Super-hot dancer types are welcome! The evening will slowly morph work – from production load-in to management) has been seen at into a dance party as the DJ heats thing up and we turn the lights the Rhubarb festival, Lunacy Cabaret, Gladstone Hotel, Dancemakers, down. Dance party starts around 9pm until 10:30pm where we’ll head The Factory Theatre and The Toronto Fringe. off to the Music Series down the hall or A Gothic Salon in the Performance Bar.

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour Friday, August 6 SummerWorks presents SummerWalks, now in its August 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 15 at 6:30PM / August 8 & 14 at 4PM of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato FLASHQUIZ second year – a set of three distinct walking tours of Invisible Toronto 8PM Break out your book bag and sharpen your pencils! Flashquiz the neighbourhood that hosts our Festival and cradles (as described by guide Falen Johnson) Ever been afraid to walk by Imagine a room where between shows you can leads an interactive look back at what you learned and what you didn’t Queen and Bathurst? I know I was. The first time I walked by that come and play with toys of all sorts – technological learn in middle school. Featuring Canadian songs, flashquizes, and three of our city’s most important theatre venues. intersection I averted my eyes, pretended to be going . . . somewhere . . . and otherwise, and let your imagination wander. show and tell – if you’ve got something to share, bring it in! This is a Through these walks, we invite you to get to know anywhere, late for something, looking straight ahead, never making show that hopes you’ll read a book, ride a bike, sing a song, draw more about the larger community and connect with eye contact. That’s when a young rough looking guy lunged at me and a comic, pet a pony, fly a kite, bake a biscuit, hug a stranger, dance yelled in my face. I jumped. I got mad. I wanted to pull out my status Designers Beth Kates and Ben Chaisson (B&B) with ducks and rhyme with reason . . . after. Maybe even ever-after. a familiar landscape from new, personal perspectives. card and prove something to him but I didn’t, I kept walking. I pretended Flashquiz is Julia Lederer, Haley McGee and Steph Berntson. Three charming guides offer their unique takes on he didn’t exist. Who hasn’t done it? Made someone, something in are creating this place by turning the front rehearsal Toronto invisible? hall of The Lower Ossington Theatre into an inter- the area, doing what theatre artists do best – telling Saturday, August 7 you stories. Let’s take a walk around Queen and Bathurst. It isn’t anywhere you active installation. haven’t been before but it may be a place you have never really seen. GAME DAY The room will be lined with state-of-the-art equipment 11AM Meet us in Trinity Bellwoods Park at the Queen and Strachan All tours run 60–70 minutes in length and depart Falen Johnson is Mohawk and Tuscarora from Six Nations Reserve. such as projectors, screens, cameras, headphones, gates for a morning of capture the flag, freeze tag and other childhood from and return to the Factory Theatre Courtyard She is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. Theatre credits speakers, mixers, microphones and a large assortment favourites. warning: it just might dissolve into a big ol’ water fight, so include The Place Between for Cheyikwe Performance and Native bring your super soakers, water balloons, sunscreen and beach balls! (125 Bathurst St.). of “conventional” toys (action figures, Lego blocks, etc.). Earth Performing Arts, The Only Good Indian . . . with Turtle Gals, and All ages welcome. $5 same-day tickets are available from Factory The Triple Truth, Savage, Strong Medicine, Death of a Chief and A Very Polite Genocide with Native Earth. Most recently Falen was in The Based loosely on Montessori and Waldorf Education 1PM Come back to the Playground for a pizza lunch. Join us for Theatre Courtyard box office techniques of self-guided play, and a long history interactive “video” games including super-competitive live-action board Ecstasy of Rita Joe for Western Canada Theatre and the NAC. Her games, big screen battleship championships and more! $5 advance tickets (plus service charge) are first play, Salt Baby, was produced by Native Earth at Theatre Passe of goofing off, The Playground invites participants to Muraille last fall. explore and create and most importantly have fun. 8PM Epic Co-ed Pillow Fight Tournament. Relying on official Pillow available online at www.artsboxoffice.ca or by phone Fighting rules, a celebrity panel will select only one champion. at 416 504 7529 Stay for as long or as short as you like, but come often everyone is a pillow fighter inside. August 6, 8, 10, 12 & 14 at 6:30PM / August 7 & 15 at 4PM as the Playground will develop throughout the festival Rules: $12 for a 3-Walk Pass (available in person from A Heartbreaking Walk of Staggering Genius and will be quite different day to day. anyone can sign up. Pairs are matched by size and skill or can any SummerWorks box office starting August 5; (as described by guide Daniel Sadavoy) The advantage of having be specifically requested. pass is for same-day use) “been around the block a few times” is that you gain wisdom that you In addition to the interactive side, Cara Gee and Natasha Matches are five minutes long and are judged by a panel using the ten- can impart on your kids. But I don’t have kids. Will you be my kids? Just Greenblatt have programmed events to engage with point system. Points awarded for endurance, gusto and pillow precision. for an hour . . . the spirit and technology of the Playground both inside Play nice. It’s a pillow fight. Discover the best and worst romantic locales the neighbourhood has to offer. Join Daniel Sadavoy as he relives all the romance and Be prepared to play more than one match if you advance. Winner is and outside of The Lower Ossington Theatre. heartbreak he has experienced within a three-block radius of Factory crowned Pillow Fighting Champion of the Festival. Keep your eye out for the candy bar. Theatre. Learn from someone else’s experience why it’s a bad idea to propose an open relationship at Czehoski. And why you’d be much The Playground installation is free and open every day Sunday, August 8 better off doing it at Coca. of the Festival from 12–8pm (later during events). ARTS/CRAFTS Get a detailed map of the local erogenous zones. Now you’ll know 11AM–5PM Come to the Playground for experiments in storytelling. where to find whatever you’re looking for. Choose your own adventure: Create dolls and puppets that dance across a projected background. Get messy with finger paints, glue and Daniel Sadavoy is a Toronto-based writer and actor. He has published pipe cleaners. Experiment using physical and technological toys to tell articles in The Canadian Theatre Review and CanPlay Magazine about stories. Press buttons. Paint on walls. Let your imagination run wild. his experience as assistant producer of the National CrossCurrents Just don’t eat the crayons. Festival under Nina Lee Aquino in 2008. With Rebecca Applebaum, he wrote and performed in the Steady State Theatre Project production Don’t Look, which NOW Magazine named an Outstanding Production Friday, August 13 at the 2007 Toronto Fringe Festival and which was selected for revival Music-Video-Making at the January 2009 Next Stage Theatre Festival. Daniel has helped develop plays in several dramaturgical settings, including The Taxi Project 11AM–6PM A make-your-own-music-video extravaganza! Remember for PEN Canada, fu-GEN’s Potluck Festival under Marjorie Chan, the Canada’s Wonderland? After a hot week of theatrical roller-coasters, HOTscrawls Festival with TheatreKairos, and the biweekly Playwright’s come discover the wonder of starring in your own music video Circle with the Steady State Theatre Project. with wacky green screens and pop classics. Manipulate your video backgrounds in real time. Choose from our playlist or bring your mp3 player and lip synch to win! We’ll be there to help. August 6, 7, 13 & 14 at 9PM 8PM A star-studded, gala screening of the day’s hottest and most Uncle Lindy’s Quit Yer Snivelin’ Tour of Life hilarious videos. (No videos will be left out.) A panel of music industry (our after dark tour, as described by guide Lindy Zucker) Who is judges will critique and award prizes in several categories including Uncle Lindy? He/she is certainly not YOUR uncle but Uncle Lindy best dance moves, best videography and much more. is definitely your friend, so that makes it okay to follow her/him through the streets of Toronto at 9pm. Where will you be going at such a late, Saturday, August 14 late hour? Don’t worry. Uncle Lindy knows the way and he/she would never lead you astray. And you might learn something? Yes! Learning Scavenger Hunt PARTY & is good. Dance Class/Dance PartY Will it be interesting trivia about Toronto that you can then share at 11AM Meet us at the Playground for the Official First Ever SummerWorks pompous cocktail parties? Probably not. West Side Scavenger Hunt. Choose a partner or let fate choose for you and go! With the SummerWorks venues as our borders, we will Come learn with Uncle Lindy and bring a flashlight because things get rediscover the parks, shops and secret treasures of this corner of the dark at 9pm. Uncle Lindy can’t wait to walk with all the boys and girls city. With prizes for the first team back and the most creative bounty, (not suitable for actual children). this is one Hunt you won’t want to miss. Lindy Zucker operates from every side of the world of theatre as 8PM Aurora Stewart de Pena leads an hour-long dance class of the an actor, writer, curator, producer, freelance technician and facetious shameless pop variety. Deck yourself out in your flashiest dance class performance artist. She is currently an Associate Artist of the dance gear and learn some sweet moves. Beginners are welcome! SummerWorks Theatre Festival. Her performance work (and/or handy Super-hot dancer types are welcome! The evening will slowly morph work – from production load-in to management) has been seen at into a dance party as the DJ heats thing up and we turn the lights the Rhubarb festival, Lunacy Cabaret, Gladstone Hotel, Dancemakers, down. Dance party starts around 9pm until 10:30pm where we’ll head The Factory Theatre and The Toronto Fringe. off to the Music Series down the hall or A Gothic Salon in the Performance Bar.

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Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 125 Bathurst St. Venue E: The Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. W.

12PM 2:30PM 5PM 7:30PM 10PM 12AM 12PM 2:30PM 5PM 7:30PM 10PM 12AM August 5 Shed Biographies of . . . Faust August 5 Avatar Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . August 6 Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, August 6 Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland August 7 The Innocents Shed Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia August 7 Return of Corporal Avatar Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs August 8 Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents Shed Biographies of . . . August 8 The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar Even Darkness August 9 Faust Iphigenia Loving the . . . August 9 Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs The Emotionalists August 10 Or, The Innocents Shed August 10 Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar August 11 Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia August 11 Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs August 12 Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents August 12 The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal August 13 Shed Biographies of . . . Faust The Innocents August 13 Return of Corporal Countries Shaped . . . Avatar Even Darkness August 14 Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents Shed August 14 Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar August 15 Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, August 15 Countries Shaped . . . Even Darkness Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland

Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 125 Bathurst St. Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 100A Ossington Ave.

12:30PM 3PM 5:30PM 8PM 10:30PM 12AM 11:30AM 2PM 4:30PM 7PM 10PM 12AM August 5 Me Happy Big Face Miss Caledonia August 5 Small Ones Theory Hidden Cameras Hidden Cameras August 6 Modicum of . . . Miss Caledonia Say Ginger Ale August 6 Bliss Molotov Circus Hidden Cameras Hidden Cameras August 7 Aftershock Me Happy Big Face Red Headed . . . Modicum of . . . August 7 Small Ones Theory Bliss Ian Kamau The Elastocitizens August 8 Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy Big Face August 8 Molotov Circus Theory Small Ones Musical Works Prison Dancer August 9 No Such Thing Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . August 9 Bliss Molotov Circus Musical Works Joni Loves Mitchell August 10 Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy August 10 Small Ones The Foreign . . . Musical Works Biggish Kids August 11 Big Face Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . August 11 The Foreign . . . Bliss PS I Love You Diamond Rings August 12 Blood Buds Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock August 12 Molotov Circus The Foreign . . . Wilderness of . . . Entire . . ./Weather . . . August 13 Aftershock Me Happy Big Face Miss Caledonia August 13 Bliss Theory Picastro Evening Hymns August 14 Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy August 14 Bliss Molotov Circus Theory Small Ones Bocce Rat Tail August 15 Big Face Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . Say Ginger . . .(10pm) August 15 Theory The Foreign . . . Small Ones Molotov Circus

Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 16 Ryerson Ave. National Series Under 25 Reading Series Music Series Sears Drama Shows

12:30PM 3PM 5:30PM 8PM 10:30PM 12AM August 5 Homegrown Ride the Cyclone Kreutzer August 6 Haunted Hillbilly Post Eden Sad and Caution Offsite Theatre Schedule August 7 Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Kreutzer Haunted Hillbilly Post Eden August 8 Kreutzer Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Ride the Cyclone Haunted Hillbilly Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café (The Theatre Centre) 1087 Queen St. W. August 9 Post Eden Homegrown Ride the Cyclone It’s Time to Talk About Our Future Together (Every 15 minutes) August 10 Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown August 11 Haunted Hillbilly Kreutzer Post Eden August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 12 Ride the Cyclone Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm August 13 Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Haunted Hillbilly Kreutzer August 14 Post Eden Ride the Cyclone Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee 992 Queen St. W. (at Ossington Ave.) August 15 Haunted Hillbilly Ride the Cyclone Post Eden Kreutzer Sad and. . .(10pm) Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair

August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 16 Ryerson Ave. 7:30pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30pm

12PM 2PM 4PM 6PM 8PM 10PM August 5 I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . Venue I: HUB 14 14 Markham Street (at Queen St. W.) August 6 Kayak All of Him Step Right Up I Was Barbie Foster Child Play August 7 The Hanging of . . . IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . Kayak All of Him Step Right Up August 8 All of Him Step Right Up IXOK’ I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . Kayak August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 9 IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . The Hanging of . . . 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm 2pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm August 10 The Saddest Girl . . . I Was Barbie All of Him August 11 Step Right Up Kayak IXOK’ Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park Queen St. W. (at Strachan Ave.) August 12 The Hanging of . . . I Was Barbie Step Right Up Kayak The WITCH of Edmonton August 13 All of Him The Hanging of . . . The Saddest Girl . . . Step Right Up August 14 The Saddest Girl . . . I Was Barbie All of Him Step Right Up Kayak IXOK’ August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 15 Kayak IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . All of Him I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm

20 21 Theatre & Music Schedule

Venue A: Factory Theatre Mainspace 125 Bathurst St. Venue E: The Theatre Centre 1087 Queen St. W.

12PM 2:30PM 5PM 7:30PM 10PM 12AM 12PM 2:30PM 5PM 7:30PM 10PM 12AM August 5 Shed Biographies of . . . Faust August 5 Avatar Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . August 6 Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, August 6 Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland August 7 The Innocents Shed Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia August 7 Return of Corporal Avatar Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs August 8 Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents Shed Biographies of . . . August 8 The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar Even Darkness August 9 Faust Iphigenia Loving the . . . August 9 Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs The Emotionalists August 10 Or, The Innocents Shed August 10 Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar August 11 Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia August 11 Even Darkness Countries Shaped . . . Souvenirs August 12 Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents August 12 The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal August 13 Shed Biographies of . . . Faust The Innocents August 13 Return of Corporal Countries Shaped . . . Avatar Even Darkness August 14 Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, The Innocents Shed August 14 Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland Return of Corporal Avatar August 15 Biographies of . . . Warning: Textual . . . Iphigenia Loving the . . . Or, August 15 Countries Shaped . . . Even Darkness Souvenirs The Emotionalists Wonderland

Venue B: Factory Studio Theatre 125 Bathurst St. Venue G: The Lower Ossington Theatre 100A Ossington Ave.

12:30PM 3PM 5:30PM 8PM 10:30PM 12AM 11:30AM 2PM 4:30PM 7PM 10PM 12AM August 5 Me Happy Big Face Miss Caledonia August 5 Small Ones Theory Hidden Cameras Hidden Cameras August 6 Modicum of . . . Miss Caledonia Say Ginger Ale August 6 Bliss Molotov Circus Hidden Cameras Hidden Cameras August 7 Aftershock Me Happy Big Face Red Headed . . . Modicum of . . . August 7 Small Ones Theory Bliss Ian Kamau The Elastocitizens August 8 Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy Big Face August 8 Molotov Circus Theory Small Ones Musical Works Prison Dancer August 9 No Such Thing Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . August 9 Bliss Molotov Circus Musical Works Joni Loves Mitchell August 10 Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy August 10 Small Ones The Foreign . . . Musical Works Biggish Kids August 11 Big Face Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . August 11 The Foreign . . . Bliss PS I Love You Diamond Rings August 12 Blood Buds Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock August 12 Molotov Circus The Foreign . . . Wilderness of . . . Entire . . ./Weather . . . August 13 Aftershock Me Happy Big Face Miss Caledonia August 13 Bliss Theory Picastro Evening Hymns August 14 Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . Say Ginger Ale Aftershock Me Happy August 14 Bliss Molotov Circus Theory Small Ones Bocce Rat Tail August 15 Big Face Miss Caledonia Modicum of . . . Red Headed . . . Say Ginger . . .(10pm) August 15 Theory The Foreign . . . Small Ones Molotov Circus

Venue C: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace 16 Ryerson Ave. National Series Under 25 Reading Series Music Series Sears Drama Shows

12:30PM 3PM 5:30PM 8PM 10:30PM 12AM August 5 Homegrown Ride the Cyclone Kreutzer August 6 Haunted Hillbilly Post Eden Sad and Caution Offsite Theatre Schedule August 7 Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Kreutzer Haunted Hillbilly Post Eden August 8 Kreutzer Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Ride the Cyclone Haunted Hillbilly Venue F: Cream Tangerine Café (The Theatre Centre) 1087 Queen St. W. August 9 Post Eden Homegrown Ride the Cyclone It’s Time to Talk About Our Future Together (Every 15 minutes) August 10 Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown August 11 Haunted Hillbilly Kreutzer Post Eden August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 12 Ride the Cyclone Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm 7–9pm August 13 Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Haunted Hillbilly Kreutzer August 14 Post Eden Ride the Cyclone Sad and Caution Word! Sound! . . . Homegrown Venue H: T.A.N. Coffee 992 Queen St. W. (at Ossington Ave.) August 15 Haunted Hillbilly Ride the Cyclone Post Eden Kreutzer Sad and. . .(10pm) Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair

August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 Venue D: Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace 16 Ryerson Ave. 7:30pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 7:30/9:15pm 7:30pm

12PM 2PM 4PM 6PM 8PM 10PM August 5 I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . Venue I: HUB 14 14 Markham Street (at Queen St. W.) August 6 Kayak All of Him Step Right Up I Was Barbie Foster Child Play August 7 The Hanging of . . . IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . Kayak All of Him Step Right Up August 8 All of Him Step Right Up IXOK’ I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . Kayak August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 9 IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . The Hanging of . . . 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm 2pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm August 10 The Saddest Girl . . . I Was Barbie All of Him August 11 Step Right Up Kayak IXOK’ Venue J: Trinity Bellwoods Park Queen St. W. (at Strachan Ave.) August 12 The Hanging of . . . I Was Barbie Step Right Up Kayak The WITCH of Edmonton August 13 All of Him The Hanging of . . . The Saddest Girl . . . Step Right Up August 14 The Saddest Girl . . . I Was Barbie All of Him Step Right Up Kayak IXOK’ August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 15 Kayak IXOK’ The Saddest Girl . . . All of Him I Was Barbie The Hanging of . . . 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm

20 21 Performance Bar & SummerWalks

Performance Bar Venue K: The Lower Ossington Theatre (street level) 100A Ossington Ave. Hosted by The National Theatre of the World every night from 9pm until 12am

9PM August 5 Allie Hughes / Zeesy Powers August 6 Maylee Todd / Jeremy Bailey August 7 Ghost Bees / Company Blonde August 8 Laura Barrett / Istvan Kantor August 9 THOMAS / Snowblink / Everyboy August 10 Colleen & Paul / BOBLO (Kitchen Band) August 11 Grand Analog / Atomic Vaudeville August 12 Claire et Tom / Cowgirl Choir / Populist Manifesto #1 August 13 Nifty / Bob Wiseman August 14 A Gothic Salon, starring The Scandelles

SummerWalks leaving from Factory Theatre Courtyard 4PM 6:30PM 9PM August 5 Invisible Toronto August 6 Heartbreaking Walk Uncle Lindy August 7 Heartbreaking Walk Invisible Toronto Uncle Lindy August 8 Invisible Toronto Heartbreaking Walk August 9 Invisible Toronto August 10 Heartbreaking Walk August 11 Invisible Toronto August 12 Heartbreaking Walk August 13 Invisible Toronto Uncle Lindy August 14 Invisible Toronto Heartbreaking Walk Uncle Lindy August 15 Heartbreaking Walk Invisible Toronto

Fun Times

Parties

August 4, 8PM Opening night party SummerWorks officially opens the Festival with a giant bash at The Lower Ossington Theatre. Cash Bar. Free Food. No Cover.

August 7, 11PM–?? After hours party at a secret venue Join us at an undisclosed location, where we’ll continue the party with food and drink into the morning hours.

August 8, 10AM Pancake “volunteer appreciation” breakfast After you’ve spent the night with us, we’re going to help remedy that hangover with all the pancakes you can stomach! $2 for All You Can Eat. Volunteers eat free. The SummerWorks Staff will slave over hot griddles to feed you in celebration of our volunteers.

August 15, 10PM Closing night party Yep this is the big one. Join us in the Factory Theatre Courtyard and find out who will take home the awards. This year, award winners will receive a physical award designed by an artist through our partnership with OCAD. Catering provided by the Lakeview.

Where to Drink and Be Merry The Factory Theatre Courtyard and The Lower Ossington Performance Bar will be serving alcohol every day/night of the Festival until 1am.

22 23 Performance Bar & SummerWalks

Performance Bar Venue K: The Lower Ossington Theatre (street level) 100A Ossington Ave. Hosted by The National Theatre of the World every night from 9pm until 12am

9PM August 5 Allie Hughes / Zeesy Powers August 6 Maylee Todd / Jeremy Bailey August 7 Ghost Bees / Company Blonde August 8 Laura Barrett / Istvan Kantor August 9 THOMAS / Snowblink / Everyboy August 10 Colleen & Paul / BOBLO (Kitchen Band) August 11 Grand Analog / Atomic Vaudeville August 12 Claire et Tom / Cowgirl Choir / Populist Manifesto #1 August 13 Nifty / Bob Wiseman August 14 A Gothic Salon, starring The Scandelles

SummerWalks leaving from Factory Theatre Courtyard 4PM 6:30PM 9PM August 5 Invisible Toronto August 6 Heartbreaking Walk Uncle Lindy August 7 Heartbreaking Walk Invisible Toronto Uncle Lindy August 8 Invisible Toronto Heartbreaking Walk August 9 Invisible Toronto August 10 Heartbreaking Walk August 11 Invisible Toronto August 12 Heartbreaking Walk August 13 Invisible Toronto Uncle Lindy August 14 Invisible Toronto Heartbreaking Walk Uncle Lindy August 15 Heartbreaking Walk Invisible Toronto

Fun Times

Parties

August 4, 8PM Opening night party SummerWorks officially opens the Festival with a giant bash at The Lower Ossington Theatre. Cash Bar. Free Food. No Cover.

August 7, 11PM–?? After hours party at a secret venue Join us at an undisclosed location, where we’ll continue the party with food and drink into the morning hours.

August 8, 10AM Pancake “volunteer appreciation” breakfast After you’ve spent the night with us, we’re going to help remedy that hangover with all the pancakes you can stomach! $2 for All You Can Eat. Volunteers eat free. The SummerWorks Staff will slave over hot griddles to feed you in celebration of our volunteers.

August 15, 10PM Closing night party Yep this is the big one. Join us in the Factory Theatre Courtyard and find out who will take home the awards. This year, award winners will receive a physical award designed by an artist through our partnership with OCAD. Catering provided by the Lakeview.

Where to Drink and Be Merry The Factory Theatre Courtyard and The Lower Ossington Performance Bar will be serving alcohol every day/night of the Festival until 1am.

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