magic is about honesty
everything here is true
except for the bits I made up
This Sunday on Magic Tonight at the Crimson Lounge in Downtown Toronto, I'll be joined by the Irritatingly Photogenic™ Keith Brown. He's coming in all the way from London fresh from a cross country tour of various and assorted Fringe festivals. Come join us for some amazing magic! Magic Tonight runs weekly in Toronto. Readers of this blog can use the code reality for a discount on the price of tickets and dinner when purchasing online.
This week, we're oozing mystery and charm out of every pore with two shows featuring the irritatingly photogenic Keith Brown. He's back from a tour of his show Exchange which took him across Canada and parts of the US and generated rave reviews. He'll be performing Thursday at the Franklin House in Streetsville, and Sunday night at the Crimson Lounge in Toronto. Update: This weeks shows are currently sold out. Tickets for upcoming shows are now available. See our upcoming special guests and book online.
Thank you to the wonderful people who came out to celebrate the oddly-named long-weekend with us on Magic Tonight. It was a packed house and we're grateful to everyone who braved the rain (which we desperately needed) to see the show. Our special guests was the irritatingly photogenic Keith Brown. Visiting all the way from London (Ontario), he presented highlights from his one-person show Exchange which has has spent the last few months Fringe-Festival-hopping with. Take a look and see what we got up to.
Magic Tonight continues through the summer at the Crimson Lounge in Downtown Toronto. Readers of this blog can use the code reality for a discount on the price of tickets and dinner when purchasing online.
First I'll begin by saying I appreciate any production which allows me to walk up to the box office and say "One for Death please". I first saw Death And Dating last fall under its original title, The Mom's House Factor, as a recital piece when I did the Soulo Theatre class in Toronto. What began as a 10-minute piece has grown into a forty-five minute extravaganza which mourns breakups and celebrates karaoke and funny hats. I suppose it falls under the category of tragicomedy, which I'm surprised my iPad recognizes as a legitimate word. It's the story, told as a set of reminiscences and flashbacks of a woman subjected to a cruel and in humane break up... At his mom's house. This takes quite a while to get over, as each flash forward in time shows that the pain hasn't really gone away.
Death and Dating is a project to help make light of and put in perspective those unfortunate events which occupy an unhealthy space in our consciousness.
The venue, which has been confusingly named a hardware store... Is not one. Although somewhat confusingly it contains a bar and the beer is clearly visible in the fridge. Given that large portions of the show take place in a karaoke bar inside the protagonist's imagination, one would have hoped that for added realism, the bar could be open.
Death And Dating has 5 shows left at Mills Hardware (95 King Street East, Hamilton) Tickets $10 plus a Fringe backer button.
Written by Magdelana BB, Directed by Mark Kalzer
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