Two actors and one musician with a double bass collide in a schizophrenic feast of sight and sound
This February we are presenting The Double at the Factory Studio Theatre. We are humbly asking our friends and supporters to help us make up part of our budget short fall to raise money for the production.
Click HERE onto the IndieGoGo link to donate and find out about special “perks” you can recieve when you do.
Share this link with friends so they can donate too: http://igg.me/p/49969
To find out more about The Double go to our WORKS page
And stay tuned as Double tickets go on sale SOON!
Dec 13
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Artaud: un portrait en décomposition played to nearly sold-out houses as part of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre’s ACT International Theatre Festival We were amazed and encouraged by the warm response from the Chinese audience. Our opening show was followed by a lively talk-back that transformed into a discussion about Artaud’s Theatre Of Cruelty, the [...]
Nov 12
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ON THE ROAD THIS MONTH: Spent IN INDIA and Artaud IN CHINA SPENT in India @ the Lit.Live! Festival in Mumbai Earlier this month Spent played to an excited audience of 800 at the NCPA in Mumbai to close off the 2nd annual Lit.Live! Festival. We had the honour to share the stage with many [...]
SPENT takes Edinburgh Fringe by storm!
Spent photo by Elisa Gilmour
For the month of August Ravi Jain and myself played Spent at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. The show garnered rave reviews and we sold out our entire run!! We had a great, physically, mentally and spiritually exhausting time…
Many thanks to all of those who came to see the fundraiser in Toronto at the Young Centre before we left and those who either donated or sent well-wishes. We are so very lucky to have such a supportive community behind us!
…AND stay tuned for TOURING NEWS ABOUT SPENT!!! who knows where we might go next…India…? the middle east?? south of the border???
What the press said in Edinburgh:
Selected for Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe Sold-out run and one of the List Magazines top 100 shows of the Fringe
**** FOUR STARS in The List “Sharp-as-a-tack satire…boundless energy and inventiveness.”
**** FOUR STARS in FESTMAG and one of their TOP FIVE Fringe shows of the Festival ” Funny, pacey and utterly mad, it shows just how well theatre can shed light on our bonkers world.”
**** FOUR STARS in Broadway Baby ” …a spectacular roller coaster rise, low on lecturing and high on energy.”
**** FOUR STARS in the TELEGRAPH “A physically swift and comically ingenious deconstruction of what it has felt like to be tossed about by the economic tsunami.“
Tom Lamont from the Observer called it, ” A frenzied 2-man riff on the global economic collapse with bonus takedowns of broadcast journalism and organized religion, a lotta fun”
**** FOUR STARS in THE SKINNY
SPENT sold out its opening yesterday and our second show today!
Festmagazine calls it:
Read the full 4 STAR review here
And SPENT was featured on CBC’s website as part of the Edfringe’s Canadian invasion! Read about it here
And in an absurd twist of fate the world market has crashed again, the biggest since 2008, timed seemingly to our show opening in Edinburgh…more on that here
Adam Paolozza and Ravi Jain
Dear Friends and Supporters, the day has arrived. SPENT opens at the Pleasance Ten Dome today at 2:55pm.
Many thanks to all who came out in Toronto and Ottawa during all of our runs to support us. We couldn’t be here without you.
Keep track of us on Twitter @spenttheshow for updates and links to press clippings.
Godspeed
Some Edinburgh preview press for SPENT:
$40
(workshop fee includes ticket to the show July 28 or July 29)
This special masterclass/workshop will introduce participants to the physical comedy techniques used in the creation of SPENT.
We will touch on aspects of Bouffon, Clown and how to use mimicry and mockery to create characters and construct comic scenes.
Workshop taught by Adam Paolozza
For more info or to sign up write to theatrerun.ensemble@gmail.com
photo by Elisa Gilmour
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are donating profits from our July 22 performance of SPENT at the Young Centre towards helping Summerworks make up their budget shortfall.
Summerworks is one of the most important, vibrant festivals in the country nurturing new, independent work and acting as a launching pad for fledgling productions.
This summer they lost a large portion of their federal funding and they have asked the community to help them ensure that they can continue to flourish and function effectively within the Canadian theatre ecology.
The Canadian theatre community is up in arms and the story has been all over the news for the past while.
For more information check out the Globe and Mail coverage here, or here
Or read a great article about it from Praxis Theatre’s Michael Wheeler here
Summerworks is also in the midst of a grassroots fundraising campaign that you can help support here
TICKETS GO ON SALE JULY 7 FOR THE JULY 22ND SUMMERWORKS BAILOUT PERFORMANCE
ALL TICKETS $20
PROCEEDS FROM ALL OTHER TICKETS GO TOWARDS THE SPENT TOUR TO EDINBURGH THIS AUGUST
TICKETS AVAILABLE AS OF JULY 7 AT THE YOUNG CENTRE BOX OFFICE 416.866.8666 OR ONLINE youngcentre.ca
We hope to see you there!
SPENT
Thursday July 21, 8pm **SOLD OUT**
Friday July 22, 8pm **SUMMERWORKS BAILOUT**
Saturday July 23, 8pm
Wednesday July 27, 8pm
Thursday July 28, 8pm
Friday July 29, 8pm
Visit our special SPENT website for info on the Edinburgh tour and to buy tickets for the show at the Pleasance
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