#1 CLOWN COMEDY With Victor & Priscilla Comes to the Toronto Fringe Festival

#1 Toronto Fringe Clown Comedy will present the new play #1 Clown Comedy With Victor & Priscilla at the Toronto Fringe Festival July 2-13, 2025. The show follows the further adventures of a 19th century vaudevillian clown family first seen in crowd-pleasing earlier shows at Alumnae Theatre (Victorian Closet Drama) and Theatre Gargantua (Victor & Priscilla Go To The Circus). 

Zany, cross-dressing clown siblings Victor & Priscilla (returning Julie Vanderlip & Eric Amaral) are thinking of quitting show biz to become fancy upper-class toffs of the Ton. Can their fantabulosa drama mama Sophy (returning Dora-nominated Michelle Gram) and their clever Bunbury cousins (Parker-Elizabeth Rodenburg, playing three roles) win them back into the family theatrical troupe? 

The hour long PG-13 Canadian comedy entertains with song, dance, witty wordplay, slapstick, drag and puppets while touching on the deeper themes of LGBTQ+ history, identity, outsider communities, and gender roles.

The show was written by a trio of award-winning female playwrights overeducated at the University of Toronto. The writing team reunites after their 2018 Toronto Fringe collaboration, the sold out Leslieville site-specific food themed show set in a kitchen, Kitchen Sink Drama, called “a theatrical feast” by Mooney On Theatre. 

Directed by award-winning Kyra Keith, the play pairs physical comedy with a clever script. The silly comedy of manners, staged in the round, is set in a playfully historically inaccurate Victorian-era and features the Polari language, a nearly forgotten theatrical slang also used as a Queer secret code in a time when homosexuality was outlawed.