Theatre InspiraTO, the producer of Canada’s largest ten-minute play festival, InspiraTO Festival, will showcase the best ten-minute plays from around the globe, and feature local playwrights with 25 ten-minute plays set to take on Toronto beginning tonight.
This year’s collection of plays were selected from InspiraTO‘s international competition with 600 ten-minute play submissions worldwide.
The festival’s theme this year is crossing dimensions. Each of the 25 shows have a sub-theme: the Red Show has in-your-face plays; the Blue Show with lost-in-space plays; and the Orange Show, out-of-place plays. Within each show there are seven different ten-minute plays or diverse stories that are interwoven into each show’s sub-theme. Layers within layers of stories, if you will.
With no intermissions in the shows, and quick set changes between plays, it allows the audience to experience what is akin to a full length play.
The festival will run beginning tonight, May 29th until Saturday, June 7th. All performance will be held at Alumnae Theatre‘s Mainstage. Tickets $20/$15 students. Festival Pass $50/$40 students. Tickets available online. Reserve online and guarantee your seat. No service fees. Tickets are also available at the Alumnae Box Office one hour before each show. Cash only at the door. Not for children under 14 years old.
RedShow: Ghost Lite by Justin Warner / Therapeutic Magic by Jennifer Turliuk / A Siri-Ous Situation by J. Lois Diamond / Red by Jordan Hall / Day Care by Steven Simoncic / The Magyar by Sandra Cardinal/ The Saga of Ginny by Ian August
Times: May 29 at 7 pm; May 31 at 6 pm; June 5 at 9 pm; June 6 at 8 pm; June 7 at 4 pm.
BlueShow: Jars by Brittany Taylor / The Dolphin Kick by Asher Wyndham / Eating French by Damon Chua / Haunted by Matthew Sarookanian / Freefalling by Aurin SquireIn / Kabul by Laurie Fyffe / The Marionette Makers by Dominik Loncar
Times: May 29 at 9 pm; May 31 at 8 pm; June 3 at 8 pm; June 4 at 7 pm; June 7 at 6 pm.
OrangeShow: The Writer by Chip Bolcik / His Best Friend by Cody McLenon / Doppleganged by Chelsea Marcantel / Swingset by Julie Cohn / End of the Rainy Season by Mark Rigney / Adrift by Ken Hall / There’s No Here Here by Craig Pospisil
Times: May 30 at 8 pm; May 31 at 4 pm; June 4 at 9 pm; June 5 at 7 pm; June 7 at 8 pm.
WhiteShow: Audiences will be led to 4 site specific locations (rain or shine) starting from Alumnae Theatre and watch a ten minute play at each venue. This will be about an hour in length. Limited seating.
Times: May 30, May 31, June 4, June 5, June 6, June 7 all at 7:55 pm.
Each show in the festival is 70 minutes (seven plays), which means you can easily see two or three shows back to back. As an audience member, you also get a chance to vote for their favorite plays with the winners announced at the finale awards ceremony on the last day. Definitely plenty of theatre options at InspiraTO Festival.
