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Dufferin Grove Park ~ June 14th to June 18th, 2006
Dinner will be served 5:30pm-6:30pm followed by Part I at 6:30pm and Part II at 8pm
5:30pm - Dinner is served
Part I - 6:30pm
Number Eleven Theatre, Toronto
Toronto's Number Eleven Theatre return for their third year as part of the Cooking Fire Theatre Festival. This year Jane Wells and Elizabeth Rucker will serve as the festival's hosts.
Zuppa Circus Theatre, Halifax, NS ~ Open Theatre Kitchen: All Possible Futures
In a kitchen in a desert, a couple imagine a child into existence. Equal parts human and onion, mischief and mythology, The Zuppa Circus Open Theatre Kitchen is a generous, wild theatrical feast that celebrates an appetite for the world. The show has been performed in public spaces throughout Halifax as well as at the Wolfville Farmers Market, the Mosers River Stone Soup Festival and the SunRoot Farms Garlic Festival.
7:30pm - Dessert and Coffee Break
Part II - 8pm
Drama of Works, New York, NY ~ On the Backs of Fishes
Part two in the epic entitled WARRIOR, On the Backs of Fishes, tells the story of Jingo Kogo, Japan’s fabled Empress warrior. Pregnant with the heir-apparent, Jingo battles Korea, and as she brings the prize of a written language and a new prince home to her people, must also defend her title from traitorous stepsons. On the Backs of Fishes uses innovative humanette/rod puppets, toy theatre, overhead projection and storytelling to weave Jingo’s amazing tale. Puppet enthusiasts who have seen Fishes at New York’s Spaghetti Dinner and Estrogenius Festival, Providence’s Blood From a Turnip, Philadelphia’s Bumpin’ Big Top , and Finland’s Barents Region International Puppet Festival, have fallen in love with this piece. WARRIOR earned a special award for ORIGINAL ADAPTATION from the World Festival of Puppet Art, Prague, in May of 2004.
Theatre SKAM, Victoria, BC ~ Billy Nothin'
A quintessential western with more twists than a lasso. Trapped in a world of leather chaps and cowboy boots, five Wild West characters collide, encountering murder, metamorphosis, mayhem alongside a meta-whore who may or may not have the answers to set them free. Performed at the Foster's / Victoria Eye Care Courtyard, and the loading dock at Wonderbucks, Vancouver.
Best Original Play, Vancouver Fringe, 1999 Summer Kamp 1999 Tour: Vancouver
"This uniformly talented ensemble deliver precise, energetic, creative performances." - Georgia Straight
Stranger Theatre, Toronto ~ Käthe Kollwitz
Stranger Theatre will premiere a new short piece based on the life Käthe Kollwitz, a German sculptor and printmaker who depicted the sufferings of every day life in early 20th Century Berlin. This short piece will use shadow puppetry, toy theatre and marionettes.
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posted May 17, 2006