Intercourse T-Rex’s distinctive and award-winning Crime After Crime (After Crime) returns to the stage for the primary ever Barrie Theatre Competition, offered by Theatre By The Bay. The present can be offered August 7 to 12 as a part of the Competition’s Canada-Vast Sequence.
The Toronto-based firm is thought for its bodily comedy, and Crime After Crime (After Crime) presents the story of the Stone Household and their rise and fall in Crime Metropolis, USA. It’s half Fifties movie noir, half heist film circa 1972, with slightly traditional 90s buddy cop thrown into the combination.
Over generations of familial trauma, Intercourse T-Rex makes use of their signature cinematic comedic sense to disclose the household’s darkish aspect. Audiences can anticipate stage fight, swing-dance automotive chases, and many silly goofs.
The opening of “A Noir In Beige”: Half 1 of Intercourse T-Rex’s Crime After Crime (After Crime). Filmed at Toronto Sketchfest, 2018:
Intercourse T-Rex
Toronto based mostly Intercourse T-Rex mix comedy with a cinematic and theatrical fashion, incorporating an off-beat physicality and parody into award-winning exhibits. The members, Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Seann Murray and Lowen Morrow, are based mostly in an improv background, and produce that prime power efficiency fashion to their scripted exhibits.
They’ve toured by way of North America, accumulating excessive reward for his or her productions, which embody award successful exhibits at Atlantic Fringe in 2014 and 2016, Simply For Laughs Finest Comedy 2015 and Decide of Vancouver Fringe 2017, Second Metropolis Excellent Comedy, 2016) and bought out runs at Toronto Fringe Competition.
Crime After Crime (After Crime) received the Simply For Laughs Finest Comedy award in 2018, and Better of Toronto Sketch Fest in 2019.
Most not too long ago, the troupe took house the 2024 Dora Mavor Moore Award — Excellent Ensemble.
Present Particulars
Created and carried out by Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Lowen Morrow, and Seann Murray
Crime After Crime (After Crime) is on stage August 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 at 8:30 p.m., and it follows one other present — Samantha Loney’s Daughter of the Nation, an intimate one-woman present set in a Métis kitchen — at 7 p.m. on the 5 Factors Theatre (1 Dunlop Avenue W., Barrie).
- Discover tickets and present particulars [HERE].
The Barrie Theatre Competition
The Barrie Theatre Competition launches is a totally skilled 10-day occasion that showcases storytelling and stagecraft, with an emphasis on native and Canadian expertise. Greater than 30 performances are constructed into three curated sequence to enchantment to audiences of all ages.
“It is a cultural anchor occasion for our metropolis,” says Doug Jure, Chair of the Board, on the Theatre by the Bay web site. “It’s designed to draw audiences, encourage artists, and create financial ripple results by way of tourism and native enterprise.”
The three curated sequence embody:
- The Canadian Sequence — Works by famous Canadian playwrights, together with Dora and Toronto Fringe Competition Award-Profitable exhibits.
- The Central Ontario Sequence — Tales from the area by rising native creators, together with underrepresented voices.
- The Younger Audiences Sequence — Professionally produced performances which have been designed households and younger folks — every 45–60 minutes lengthy — that revolve round optimistic themes resembling creativeness and belonging.
Discover extra info and tickets [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 a long time, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.