This season the Wildside Festival will feature creations by some of Montreal’s most amazing female artists as well as one show by an artist making waves in Toronto. Until January 17th catch six plays in repertory, including the OFF THE MAIN winner (Centaur’s Best of the Montreal Fringe award), My Pregnant Brother.
My pregnant brotherOn the day this show first saw the light, Thomas Beatie, “the World’s First Pregnant Man”, gave birth to his second child. The funny thing is, two years before anyone had ever heard of Thomas Beatie, my brother became a pregnant man … and the only one who knew was me. This is that story. Equal parts Le Petit Prince and Are You My Mother?, this intensely personal odyssey of family and self-identity guides us through the streets of Montreal, leads us from hope to heartache and back again, and invites us all to lie down on the kitchen floor for twenty-six hours to have a good think. My
Pregnant Brother takes all of our illusive insecurities, all of our secret fears, and all of our reasons for giving up, and pours them out onto an empty stage where we can see them clearly. This is stand-up tragedy: one woman, an empty stage, an open heart, and an unimaginable journey.
Poetic, fantastical and captivating, Ties carries you through the whirlwind of a young woman’s memories as she retraces the life of her deceased father. Scored to
original live music, this powerful imagistic portrayal of a woman’s struggle to cope with loss will send you on a voyage into your own imagination. Ties takes you from the suburbs of Montréal to the mountains of Lebanon in an evening of theatre, music and beauty.
Having escaped her birthplace of Cambodia, and finding amnesty in a Thai refugee camp for three years, Chantria and her family are plunged into the Canadian mosaic. As a young firstgeneration Khmer-Canadian, she tries to find her place between two very different cultures: old and new, family and the individual, Cambodia and Canada.
Directed and choreographed by Robin Henderson
Fringe box-office record breaker and winner of the 2009 Just For Laughs “Best of Montreal” comedy prize, DANCE ANIMAL has been declared Montreal’s first“comedy supergroup” (Brett Hooton – The Hour). The hotstepping brain-child of creator/director/choreographer/dancer Robin Henderson, DANCE ANIMAL, is a superhuman tribe of ten dynamic Montrealers with a singular dance mission:
to fight stagnation and boredom with positivity and to spread sexy-electric-joy-energy across the planet.
Abu Ghraib Prison. Jenny works in the office. Jonathan is a prison guard. They meet. They fall in love. Written and directed by National Theatre School of Canada graduate Jason Maghanoy, and featuring two of the most outstanding young actors in the city of Toronto, dust is a chilling, and ultimately moving examination of torture, decency and the limits of hope.
penumbraIn an age of technological development and dependency, the individual has been afforded an unprecedented variety of communicative means. penumbra examines classical themes of love, lust and betrayal in a modern context, positing that technology has not only perverted the integrity of the modern relationship
structure, but damaged the genuine connection felt between two people in love.
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