My pal Tanya wrote and is performing in a play that's part of the 2005 Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival (what everyone 'round these parts just calls "the Fringe.")
If you are heading down a-Fringin' way, be sure to check out Thank You by Tanya Smith:
"Inspired in part by the powerful story of Oseola McCarty, an elderly African American woman who graciously donated all of her savings to a University scholarship, this influential account surveys the pervasive nature of appreciation, the ubiquitous confines of the word and the limitless complexion of the human heart. Bent on properly thanking her benefactor young Alena Stevenson arrives at a little seniors' care facility in Southern Mississippi to discover that the person she seeks is not who she expected and that significant lessons can be learned anywhere."
And at the same time that she's acting in the play she wrote, she's directing another play in the Fringe, too. That's my busy gal. This one's called KD and the Bomb:
Directions: Stir pasta into 6 cups boiling, salted water. Boil rapidly, stirring occasionally, 8-9 min. or to desired tenderness. Drain. Boom! We're f#*ked.
From the dangerous studios of York U's Creative Ensemble program and 4 young A.D.D generation artists comes a compelling, quirky, confused and perplexing piece of raw theatre.
Both shows are playing at the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space (30 Bridgman Avenue), and each is just $10 at the door (less for Fringe passholders). See the Fringe web site dates and times and such.
If you do catch one or both of her plays be sure to go up to her afterward and tell her what a great web site she has, and then ask her who is the Talented And Obviously Wonderful person who designed it for her. And when you ask her if that same Talented And Obviously Even More Wonderful Than You'd Originally Thought person ever linked to her site from his blog just to help her Google placement, she'll say "yes."
