Performance Students Past and Present Participate in Toronto Fringe Festival 2024

Welcome to Our Lady Kensington! A failing independent, Kensington Market pub acquired by a stupid corporation.

The staff are strung out, harassing each other, flirting, breaking up, drunk on shift all the time, and generally screwed. A new, young staff member shows up and over the course of one not-so-busy Friday night this group of dusted up hooligans attempt to rekindle the importance of taking care of people, fight for our disappearing urban community spaces, and rediscover the present moment within their weird, shitty jobs.

Includes Jackson Doner (Performance Acting), Sabrina Pye (Performance Production), Luke Kimball (Performance Acting), Marianne McIsaac (Performance Contract Lecturer), Ben Yoganathan (Performance Acting)

The CHEAPEST show at the Fringe! Bobert is down on his luck, and needs your help to make rent this month. It's GIVING season!

Includes Olivia Neary-Hatton (Performance Acting), Kole Durnford (Performance Acting), Desmond LAzar (Performance Acting) 

Amy and Pete are in trouble: she works at the local hospital, he’s an unemployed opera singer, and they have a baby on the way. With inflation mounting and a million baby things to buy, they turn to an unconventional means of making extra cash - selling her underwear on the internet - and end up buried in the panty business.

Includes Paulina Tapia (Performance Production) 

Elephant song draws from the minimalism of Grotovsky’s poor theater, and the maximalism of the city in which it plays out... And now the other city where it is being staged. It is an atmospheric piece, and relies heavily on the elements of music and song. Inspired loosely by tradition of the qawaali, and dastangoi- it attempts to question biases, beliefs and the ignorance of the world around them.

Includes Arjun Kalra (Performance Acting)

Sunday is rushing out the door to meet her off-the-clock psychologist, when her phone rings. A hoard of shameful voicemails from a departed friend derails her plans, forcing Sunday’s unease about the friendship to the surface.

Includes Julianna Angheloni (Performance Production)

In a new contemporary dance work by Katie Adams-Gossage, soloist Frédérique Perron carves into her own calcified edges, unearthing the sculptural materiality of the body. Tethered, drenched, gutted.

Includes Theo Belc (Performance Production)

'How Lucky Are We' is a celebration of queer friendship, chosen family, and the catharsis of simply being seen. This work is playful, mischievous, and tender. An ode to the pursuit of joy.

Includes Olivia Seward (Performance Production), Caitlin Feanny (Performance Dance), Madison Costa (Performance Dance) 

To save his failing cooking show, Ravi is forced to reveal the secret recipe for his mouthwatering Koli Kari (Chicken Curry). But when the Chicken comes to life and conjures up the recipe's true creator, Ravi must confront someone he thought he’d never see again — his Amma. Magical, queer, and full of flavour, Koli Kari asks what is ours to share... and at what cost?

Starring a brilliant cast of South Asian artists, Koli Kari is a heartfelt, magical drama featuring a mystical chicken, onstage cooking, and a story about the things in our families we leave unsaid.

Includes Tanvi Vyas (Performance Production) 

When the abbot goes away, THE MONKS COME OUT TO PLAY!

Lentils! WHAT? Storms! WHO’S THERE? Donkeys! CUTE! Satan! NO! Ass? YES! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Accept their invitation and join the monks on the quest of a lifetime in this shockingly-dumb interactive clown show featuring magical realism, live music, unbridled chaos, and every interpretation of the word ‘ass’.

Includes Veronica Hortiguela (Performance Acting)

Art is complicated. So are people. You know what isn't complicated? Theft. Or is it? See how complicated it can get when all three collide in Painting By Numbers, a new comedy of errors framed around a stolen painting.
Feelings are hurt, codes are switched, headlines are made, and will someone just tell the truth already?!

Includes Naomi Kaplan (Performance Acting), Sarah Yeoman (Performance Production)

Poz. A diagnosis that changed a generation. But what does it look like to be positive now? Winner of the Fringe Best New Play Contest, this 10 year journey will take you through the highs and lows of what it means to be a person living with HIV today. On an epic bike ride from Toronto to Montreal, Mark comes to terms with his HIV status, relationships, and whether or not he'll cross the finish line.

Includes Sofia Di Cicco (Performance Production)

Remembrance follows the journey of a young Caribbean woman who has come to a crossroad in her life.
She embarks on a series of spiritual experiences that helps her access the memory that is stored in her DNA.  She now starts to remember the true power of her healing, spiritual, sexual and sensual energy. 
Brought to life by using traditional Afro-Caribbean Dance, ancestral wisdom, poetry, as well as Dancehall and Soca dance. 
An entertaining, sensual, captivating and liberating dance performance that uses storytelling to take the audience on a memorable journey.  
Remembrance is loosely based off real life spiritual experiences.

Includes Szerelem Dutton (Performance Dance) 

"Rooted what does it mean to me? To be stuck in the ground like this tree." A contemporary fable for the ages, ROOTED begs the question what does it mean to be rooted and how does our idea of being rooted change as we grow? With R'n'B, soul, and soaring strings, this musical poem is brought to life in the heart of Central Park.

Includes Brenda Quynh Diep (Performance Production)

Meet the Stiffs. Your average family running a funeral home teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. In a bid to keep their business afloat, they start orchestrating "accidental departures" for unsuspecting individuals. As their scheme brings unexpected success, the fate of the Stiff family hangs precariously in the balance as greed, love triangles, dreams of Hollywood and possessed puppets weave together in this darkly comedic tale.

Includes Aidan Gouveia (Performance Acting), Izzi Nagel (Performance Acting) 

How much can you let yourself go, while life goes on?
What happens when you start asking questions about life?
Does everything shift, or does time slow down?
Do your days get hazier, or can you see clearly?
Now, can we dim the lights please...

Includes Bella Szpala (Performance Production)