The Fringe Festival
September isn't just the start of school. It also means it's Film Festival season and here in Vancouver, the Fringe Festival. Here is just a sample of the plays that got their start at a Fringe Festival or would be suitable to produce for one.
Browse our list of Fringe Festival plays here!
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Mother of Him by Evan Placey
Mother of Him is a full-length drama by Evan Placey. How far does a mother's love go, and at what cost to herself?
It's a snowy December morning like any other in Toronto, Canada, as Brenda Kapowitz sends her 8 year-old son Jason off to school, while her teenage son Matthew remains asleep upstairs. Soon she'll begin lighting candles for the 8 nights of Hanukkah. You'd think Brenda was like any other mother. But in 8 days Matthew will be sentenced for three terrible crimes. In 5 days the judge will decide whether to accept or reject Brenda's application that her son be sentenced as a child. And today Brenda's face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper. As the press are camped outside, Matthew is under house arrest, and it's the laws that form inside the house that matter most. Boys can become men. And a mother can at once become victim and monster. She could be any mother. But she's not. She's his.
Mother of Him was Evan Placey's debut full-length play. It won the King's Cross Award for New Writing, Canada's RBC National Playwriting Competition, and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest, and was shortlisted for the Meyer Whitworth Award and the Rod Hall Memorial Award. It was produced at the Courtyard Theatre in London. A Hebrew production ran for 18 months at the Beit Lessin Theatre in Tel Aviv.
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Duet for One by Tom Kempinski
Duet for One is a full-length drama by Tom Kempinski. A virtuoso cellist goes to therapy to learn how to face the multiple sclerosis that is derailing her career, in Tom Kempinski's fictionalized dramatization of the real-life story of Jacqueline du Pre.
A brilliant concert violinist is forced to re-evaluate her life when struck down by unforeseen tragedy. She is led to examine her deepest emotions and finally to consider a future without music. This immensely moving play won the London Theatre Critics Award for best play of 1980. Both Anne Bancroft and Julie Andrews have played the role of a famous concert violinist who is stricken with a disease which necessitates her retirement from the stage and which threatens her marriage as well. The play is structured as a series of interviews between the violinist and her psychiatrist in which she tries to cope with her illness and its effect on her life.
Duet for One is a undoubtedly a modern classic. It first opened at Edinburgh Fringe, then transferred to the London's West End for a long run, moved on to Broadway and later turned into a movie starring Julie Andrews and Max von Sydow.
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Exits and Entrances by Athol Fugard
Exits and Entrances is a full length drama by Athol Fugard. Focuses on an idealistic young playwright and a fading middle-aged actor at opposite ends of the career spectrum. One is poised on the threshold of a promising new career while the other is a great artist exiting from the stage.
Exits and Entrances is the story of a relationship between a young man on the threshold of his career as a playwright and an ageing actor who has reached the end of his career on the stage. The play is based directly on Fugard's own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the effect that the legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet had on him in shaping his own vision of theatre. It is a play in which the young man's optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment of the ageing actor. The action takes place in a series of scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation between two starkly differing realities plays out with humour, pathos and dramatic power. As the rave reviews of the premiere in Los Angeles reveal, this is a play that is intensely human and speaks to everyone. But, above all else, this is a play that celebrates theatre and its abiding significance. From the two very different perspectives of the young man and the old actor, Exits and Entrances also reflects the search for a theatre of relevance in an oppressive society.
Exits and Entrances received its world premiere in 2004 at the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles. The play had its UK premiere at The Assembly Rooms during the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe.
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