Five playwrights were commissioned to create new work to be performed in a kitchen in Riverside to an audience busy munching on snacks served up by the cast. The writers were assigned a unique flavour, a time limit, a cast size limit, and were encouraged to include the use of direct address and create characters with no appearance based descriptions, to allow for casting of any gender, age range, ethnicity, etc. The pieces they created are strange, powerful meditations on love, betrayal, grief and revenge. They are magical, delicious and proudly queer.

In the first play Siren, by award-winning playwright Natalie Kaye (Mood Swings, Fringe 2016), a scullery maid makes dinner and rails against the constraints of her oppressive employment, vowing to storm the seas as a blood-thirsty pirate. She will serve the audience a deliciously salty summer gazpacho.

The salad course, Bitter Hearts, debates the ethics of veganism while relishing the inescapable bitterness of first love’s betrayal. The main course, Savour, directed by Sandra Cardinal (Sizzle & Spin, Fringe 2015) and starring Fringe veteran and CAEA member Andrea Irwin (False Start, Fringe 2016 & Hogtown, 2017), Kelly-Marie McKenna (If We Were Birds, York U), and Mladen Obradović (A Flea in Her Ear, Fringe 2017), is a delectable romance about yearning, alienation, magic and carpe diem.

The final piece is A Trifle, written by award-winning playwright Nina Kaye (Death Meets Harlequin, Fringe 2017) and directed by Collette Radau (Midnight Toronto, Rhubarb 2017). This dessert course, about new love, cake, and how to connect, is a sweet, but not too saccharine, way to end the night.

With 17 members in the production team, many of whom are returning to Fringe, and only 30 seats in our cozy kitchen each night, these tickets are sure to sell quickly so book now!

Kitchen Sink Productions, Plan A Theatre, Unspoken Theatre in association with The Toronto Fringe present

Kitchen Sink Drama

Written by Aaliya Alibhai, Laurence Braun-Woodbury, Natalie Kaye & Nina Kaye

Directed by Sandra Cardinal, Natalie Kaye, Nina Kaye, Collette Radau

Starring Evan Boutsov, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Cook, Andrea Irwin (with permission of CAEA), Kelly Marie McKenna, Mladen Obradović, Naseem Reesha, Jessica Wareing

Stage managed by Amelia Blaine, Mark Hastings

Produced by Nina Kaye, Isaac Lloyd

Runs July 4 to 14 at 7:30pm, with NO show on Sunday JULY 8TH 2018

Ralph Thornton Community Kitchen, 765 Queen St East (near Broadview)

Please note that there is absolutely no latecomer seating, as per Toronto Fringe policy.

Tickets:

Purchase online: https://fringetoronto.com/festivals/fringe/event/kitchen-sink-drama

By Phone: 416-966-1062

In Person: During the festival at our main box office at the Fringe patio at Scadding Court – 707 Dundas Street West, or at the venue door just before the show.

Toronto Fringe Communications Manager: Tessa Cernik, communications@fringetoronto.com

Our Media Rep Contact: Nina Kaye, 647-770-3837, nina_bea@hotmail.com