Messy Kween Collective Set for Toronto Fringe Festival

The Messy Kween Collective is keeping it strange at this year's Fringe Festival; a troupe of Toronto's Best Actors will be convene in the gathering dusk under the fairy lights and permanent canopy of Majlis Art Garden to attempt Kyle Capstick's probably impossible Bodies Strange. The troupe, composed of Carlos Albornoz, Larissa Currie, Annie MacKay, Jordi O'Dael, Grace Phan-Nguyen, and Alexi Pedneault will transport audiences to an imaginative world where characters transform into trees, birds, spiders, and who knows what else using ingenious theatrical devices dreamed up by designer Kelly Anderson.

This isn't about hearts;

it's about shapes.

I need you to know me in any shape.

Following a lover's departure for war a woman becomes a tree and sets a family in a cycle of transformations that spans 3 generations. Bodies Strange is a theatrical challenge full of murder plots, moral quandries, and a thrillingly skewed sense of reality. It is bold in its storytelling, Greek in its inspiration, and playful in its execution.

I don't know how you do it.

How you've lived all these lives with all this pain and this anger inside of you.

How you keep repeating this story.

Isn't it exhausting to live in someone else's story?

The Messy Kween Collective serves body on stage like you've only ever dreamed. We celebrate new work that is as ambitious as it is unconventional with an artistic practice of unapologetic diversity and unrestricted imagination.

Written/Directed by Kyle Capstick

Performed by Carlos Albornoz, Larissa Currie, Annie MacKay, Jordi O'Dael, and Alexi Pedneault

Stage Managed by Grace Phan-Nguyen

Designed by Kelly Anderson

Produced by Harsharan Sidhu.

Part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016.

Majlis Art Garden | 163 Walnut Avenue | June 30th - July 10th | 9pm Nightly.

No Performances July 3rd & 7th
Tickets $12 | For Tickets: www.fringetoronto.com
For more information visit www.kylecapstick.com

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