Fringe Audience favourite Silk Bath returns to Toronto Stages at the 2017 Next Stage Theatre Festival!

Unapologetic, brutal and unflinching, 2016 Toronto Fringe audience hit, Silk Bath, returns to the stage at the 2017 Next Stage Theatre Festival. Lauded for its brutal look at the psychological challenges of Chinese-Canadian immigrants, Silk Bath will be the first show in NSTF history to be presented in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Silk Bath provides a ruthless look at the journey to citizenship once the paperwork is signed. Set under the lights of a dystopic reality TV show, Silk Bath follows four Chinese-Canadian immigrants forced to undergo a series of competitions to prove that they belong in their new home. Reworked since its Fringe debut, Silk Bath questions whether immigrants can ever shed the label of outsider? What must they lose in order to belong?

Silk Bath is written by Bessie Cheng (Summerworks - Aperture), Aaron Jan (ROWING - One of Mooney on Theatre's critics' picks of the 2016 Fringe, SWAN), and Gloria Mok, three alumni of Fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company's "Kitchen" playwriting program. It stars Summerworks and Fringe veteran, En Lai Mah (VanGroovy, NNNN; Served, NNNN), director-actor, Dorcas Chiu (Dreams, Canadian Rep Company, NNNN) and Amanda Zhou (Madam Mao, NNNN), granddaughter of legendary Chinese singing star, Xuan Zhou.

"Silk Bath is fantastic theatre...anyone who is interested in theatre that reaches its lofty goals should go see it" - Mooney on Theatre
"A" Letter Grade - My Entertainment World
"Powerful and affecting" - NOW Magazine
"A call for revolution in our city and arts community" - Ontario Arts Review

Silk Bath
by Bessie Cheng and Aaron Jan (with contributions from Gloria Mok)

Starring: Bessie Cheng, Dorcas Chiu, En Lai Mah and Amanda Zhou
Director: Aaron Jan
Stage Management and Lighting Design: Logan Raju Cracknell
Set and Costume Design: Aram Heydarian
Sound Design: Kevin Feliciano
Fight Choreography: Louisa Zhu
Producer: Kevin Matthew Wong

Venue: Factory Studio Theatre

Show Times:
January 5th 2017 - 4:45 PM
January 6th 2017 - 7:15 PM
January 7th 2017 - 2:15 PM
January 8th 2017 - 6:15 PM
January 10th 2017 - 8:30 PM
January 12th 2017 - 9:15 PM
January 13th 2017 - 5:15 PM
January 14th 2017 - 7:45 PM
January 15th 2017 - 5:30 PM

Run Time:
60 minutes

Connect:
Twitter: twitter.com/SilkBathTO @SilkBathTO #SilkBathTO
Facebook: facebook.com/silkbathcollective
Website: silkbathcollective.wix.com/fringe

Tickets: http://fringetoronto.com/next-stage-festival/tickets/ $15

Purchase by Phone: 416-966-1062 / Online: http://www.fringetoronto.com/
During the Festival: Tent next to Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street

As per rules of the fringe, latecomers will not be admitted

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