Pinter Stew

Harold Pinter & Third Wall

Ottawa theatre legends John Koensgen & James Richardson, try to make sense of the world with the words of another theatre legend – Harold Pinter. John directs James, James directs John, Graham Price designs. Where they’ll go nobody knows but they’ll likely end up nuking London. Nobel prize-winning writing performed by award-winning artists. Third Wall at its best! w/ St. Lawrence Shakespeare Fest.

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Quantum Calamity

Aerial Antics

Not again! Dr Clara Brown and her assistants–a madcap trio of time-travelling steampunks–have run into trouble with the Ministry of Temporal Affairs. What could it be this time? The registration was filed properly, and the licences were in hand 6 months before departure. . .

Hop on board as Aerial Antics weaves together their signature blend of comedy, visual effects and high-flying aerial acrobatics in this original production featuring circus, theatre, and a touch of spacetime bureaucracy.

Biography:

Aerial Antics, founded in 2015, is Ottawa’s “vertical theatre” company. Created to facilitate and motivate participation in aerial circus arts, the name “Aerial Antics” reflects this troupe’s playful approach to choreography and theatrics.

Aerial Antics has performed as part of popular Ottawa events such as Glowfair Festival, Nature Nocturne, Lumière Festival, Comiccon, and Kidsfest. They continue to explore new ways to merge art, theater and acrobatic skill into original and engaging performances.

www.aerialsottawa.com/
Twitter: @Aerial_Antics
Instagram: @aerialantics
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Scaredy Cat

Carlyn Rhamey

Award-winning storyteller Carlyn Rhamey (The ADHD Project, SAOR) returns with tons of new comedic tales of being afraid…of everything. From the things that go bump in the night to scary movies, haunted houses, the ocean, everything in the ocean, everything in the water, her job, wrinkles, death, FOMO, sleepovers, dinosaurs, glitter, cheese graters, first graders, ghosts, the cover of Goosebumps novels and…her mother. Scaredy Cat explores a not-so-typical but totally relatable mother/daughter relationship as childhood fears transition into real life big girl fears, and what it could all possibly mean.

2018 Hamilton Encore Festival Pick
2017 Ottawa Emerging Artist Award, The ADHD Project

“A ONE-WOMAN THEATRICAL HURRICANE” – View Magazine, SAOR
“A TALENTED STORYTELLER, WITH A GREAT SENSE OF COMIC TIMING” – Edmonton Journal, The ADHD Project
“A FANTASTIC PHYSICAL PERFORMER” – Apt613, SAOR
“I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN, WHAT A STORYTELLER” – Steel City Girl, The ADHD Project

 

 

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Skirts in the Forest

Becky McKercher & Sarah Thuswaldner

Four cross-dressing Shakespearean heroines meet in the Forest of Lost Plots. They’re feisty, they’re fighting, they’re directionally challenged, and Hamlet keeps getting on their case. With only the Complete Works of Shakespeare to guide them, they have to navigate through the tragedies without too much murder, mayhem, or saying “Macbeth.”

 

 

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Stick or Wizard?

Oli Weatherly

“A hilarious waste of time!”

Gaulier-trained clown and ramblin’ rebel, Oli Weatherly, invites you to take a trip with him into the unknown. To meet two unusual guys; one, a man who dreams of the ultimate freedom – to be a Stick; the other, a Wizard.

On the surface, Stick or Wizard? is a surreal comedy; underneath the story of a man finding magic in every moment.

Part autobiography. Part story telling. All pure idiocy.

WINNER StageDoor Audience Choice Award London ’18.
LONDON SELL OUT SHOW, Wandsworth Fringe 2018
★★★★ LondonBoxOffice

 

 

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Suitcase of Wonders

Ryan Pilling

With odds of a billion to one against, magician Ryan Pilling rolls the dice in a magic show and social experiment that dances along the line between highly improbable and absolutely impossible. As a quick-witted ringmaster, Ryan pits your free will against a locked suitcase in a theatrical gamble that could go either way. Amazing magic and weird stunts with a dash of choose-your-own adventure.

 

 

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The Date

Phoebe Webber

Dating isn’t easy for women of a certain age. Phoebe is going to give it one more chance. Buoyed by a love of romantic opera, she is wondering if she is making the right decision. But first, she will ask her cats.

She won’t rush into anything or have unrealistic expectations. Join Phoebe on a musical journey in no way influenced by her fear of the unknown.

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The Key to Time Travel

Allison Elizabeth Burns

What is the key to time travel? It’s easier than you think. We’re doing it right now. I’m writing this, thinking about you – and now you’re reading it, thinking about me. Present tense, days apart.

The Key to Time Travel is a theatrical contemporary dance duet inspired by the groove, strength, and shapes of Breakdance. It treads the brilliant borderland between reality and magic. The dancers travel through time by dropping memory markers/keys in specific moments in the past, present, and future. They want to know: can we somehow reach people who are here in a different “now”?

Each show will feature an open act choreographed by a different local contemporary dance artist; Geoffrey Dollar (June 13), Alya Graham (June 15), Cathy Kyle (June 16), Sarah Hopkin (June 18), Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson (June 21), and Mizuki Hoshino (June 23).

Critics’ reactions to Allisoneb’s 2017 Ottawa Fringe production:
“It’s unusual to walk into a room and experience beauty, but Do You Want To Live Forever? is an exercise in the sublime […] I was captivated.” – David Currie, Apt613

“Delightful and mesmerizing. Allison Burns is a gorgeous dancer, exemplifying poetry in motion” – Allan Mackey, On Stage

Show credits: Allison Elizabeth Burns – Project Instigator & Choreographer | Amanda Bon, Chelsea Passmore, and Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson – Collaborating Performers | Tristan Henry – Composer and Creator of Original Score | Travis Martin – Writer and Story Consultant | Keir Knight – Choreographic Consultant | Yvonne Coutts – Mentor

The Key to Time Travel (teaser) from Allison Burns on Vimeo.

 

 

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The Knitting Pilgrim

Kirk Dunn

The Knitting Pilgrim is a one-act interdisciplinary performance using theatre, image projection and the remarkable Stitched Glass tapestries. The play, performed by Kirk Dunn, recounts his fifteen-year artistic and spiritual journey of hand-knitting the ambitious project, and his hope to contribute to the vital conversation about xenophobia, interfaith strife and fear of the other.

 

 

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The Last President of Canada

Doug Rutherford

Ghosts haunt the halls of the House of Commons…

In May 1966, Paul Chartier, an unemployed former miner, trucker, and hotelier, suffered a serious mental breakdown. He blamed the federal government for a long history of personal and business failures, so he asked if he could address Parliament to complain about how the country was being run and was refused. He decided to get revenge by throwing a bomb onto the floor of the House of Commons during session, delivering a speech listing his many grievances, and declaring himself the President of Canada. However, his plan was unsuccessful, and he died in the attempt. Our play takes place in present day, more than 50 years afterwards, with Chartier being offered the opportunity to deliver his speech he had taken with him to the House of Commons… from the afterlife.

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