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Next Stage 2015

The Toronto Fringe has just revealed the line-up for the 2015 Next Stage Festival.

Sometimes dubbed the winter Fringe, the festival takes over three venues at Factory Theatre from January 7 to 18, with 10 shows running in rep.

Appearing in the mainspace will be writer/director Caroline Azar’s Dink, a punk play with songs about a family’s unraveling. The cast includes David Keeley, Christy Bruce, Kris Siddiqi, Lise Cormier, Andrea Slack-Brown and Jasmine Chen.

Also playing the mainspace are Jasmyn Fyffe Dance’s Pulse Michael Ross Albert’s For A Good Time, Call Kathy Blanchard, a tragicomedy about a family’s losses, directed by Jim Warren and Alison Lawrence’s Piece By Piece, about six characters who meet in a hospital. The last show, directed by David Ferry, features Mary Francis Moore, Maja Ardal, Terrence Bryant and Brian Young.

The studio shows include The Templeton Philharmonic’s Unbridled & Unstable, featuring best-loved sketches by Gwynne Phillips and Briana Templeton writer/performer Jon Lachlan Stewart’s Big Shot, directed by Georgina Beaty, in which a young boy recounts a Vancouver Skytrain shooting in the style of his favourite action films and Jenna Harris’s Mine, directed by Clinton Walker, in which two women try to sort out how they’re connected to each other.

The fourth studio production is Matt Murray’s The Myth Of The Ostrich, a 2014 Fringe hit in which two mothers discuss their children’s relationship. Directed by Steven Gallagher, it features Astrid Van Wieren, Alanis Pert and Renee Hackett.

In the antechamber (the upstairs bar), look for Snack Music, created and performed by Ingrid Hansen and Steve Chmilar, who improvise songs based on audience stories. Joining that production is Graham Clark Reads The Phonebook, in which the Vancouver comic – whose I Think Therefore I‘m Graham, was a success at this past summer’s Fringe – fashions his act from entries in a phonebook. Wonder if it’ll be a Vancouver or Toronto edition.

See fringetoronto.com for more info.

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