InspiraTO Festival at InspiraTO
Dates: (5/29/2014 - 6/7/2014 )
InspiraTO |
70 Berkeley Street
Toronto,NY M5R 2Y9
Phone: (416) 483-2222
Tickets: $20/$15 for Students
Running Time: 70 minutes per Show
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9th Annual InspiraTO Theatre Festival
May 29th- June 7th, 2014,
Alumnae Theatre Mainstage
STORIES WITHIN STORIES WITHIN STORIES
Theatre InspiraTO, the producer of Canada’s largest ten-minute play festival, InspiraTO Theatre Festival, will showcase the best ten-minute plays from around the globe, and feature local playwrights with 25 ten-minute plays set to take on Toronto in late May. What makes the festival truly distinct is its curated approach to theater.
Dominik Loncar, the Artistic Director of the festival, explains, “this year’s theme is crossing dimensions. All the plays have the same creative challenge of crossing a threshold. Each show has a sub-theme: the Red Show has in-your-face plays; the Blue Show with lost-in-space plays; and the Orange Show, out-of-place plays. Within each show there are seven different ten-minute plays or diverse stories that are interwoven into each show’s sub-theme. Like a matryoshka doll, you get layers and layers of stories.”
Last year InspiraTO launched its first site specific show which proved to be very popular. The festival has included the White Show again this season. Audiences are led to four site specific locations, much like a safari, and see a ten-minute play at each venue. This year the site specific venues will be on Queen Street East, near the theatre, with audiences getting a chance to walk the old town of York and see live shows.
This year's collection of ten-minute plays were selected from InspiraTO’s international competition with 600 ten-minute play submissions worldwide. Theatre InspiraTO is also pleased to promote its own Canadian voices – eight emerging playwrights take part in Theatre InspiraTO’s Playwriting Academy. These Canadian playwrights have taken to the academy to truly experiment with the art of writing short plays. Each playwright receives training, a dramaturg and the opportunity to workshop their play during the creation process of page to stage with a guaranteed production of their play in the festival.
This festival’s season has a dynamic lineup of stories ranging from whimsical to quirky to daring and disturbing. With no intermissions in the shows, and quick set changes between plays, it allows the audience to experience what is akin to a full length play. The ten-minute plays are a rapid sequence of engagement and emotions. Each show in the festival is 70 minutes (seven plays), which means you can easily see two or three shows back to back. There are also talkbacks after most shows to connect with the writers and artistic team and learn from their process. Audiences also get a chance to vote for their favorite plays with the winners announced at the finale awards ceremony on the last day.
“What I saw that evening was much more than a collection of individual ten-minute plays in one show—it felt like a full length play -- with rising action, turning point and resolution.”
-Elaine Romero (winner of the 2010 InspiraTO Playwriting Contest)
VENUE: Alumnae Theatre
70 Berkeley Street, ON, Toronto (One Block West of Parliament on Adelaide)
DATES: May 29th- June 7th, 2014
TICKETS: $20/$15 for Students;
Festival Pass: $50/$40 students (three shows) available online: www.theatreinspirato.ca
Or the Alumnae Theatre Box - open one hour before each show.
Full schedule and more information visit www.theatreinspirato.ca
9th InspiraTO Theatre Festival Lineup
Red Show: In-your-face
Ghost Lite by Justin Warner
Under the Whether by Jennifer Turliuk
Red by Jordan Hall
Stealing Life by Cassandra Walker
Day Care by Steven Simoncic
The Magyar by Sandra Cardinal
The Saga of Ginny by Ian August
Blue Show: Lost-in-space
Jars by Brittany Taylor
Dreamers by Nina Kaye
Eating French by Damon Chua
Haunted by Matthew Sarookanian
Freefalling by Aurin Squire
In Kabul by Laurie Fyffe
The Marionette Makers by Dominik Loncar
Orange Show: Out–of-place
The Writer by Chip Bolcik
Divine Service by Cody McLenon
Doppleganged by Chelsea Marcantel
Swingset by Julie Cohn
End of the Rainy Season by Mark Rigney
Adrift by Ken Hall
There’s No Here Here by Craig Pospisil
White Show: Site specific plays on Queen Street East
In a barber shop
In a book store
In front of a cathedral
In a playground
MEDIA CONTACT: Bee Raskob, toobee@live.com , Phone: 647-962-7488
Ages: All ages.
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