Rico & Rostrup: Make Me Sing – Superhero Edition
Friday April 25 @ 8PM
Tickets $20, PWYC option available at the door
on sale now
You, the audience, hold the power to turn the show into a musical with the simple toss of a bread roll!
Rico & Rostrup is an electrifying, laugh-out-loud improv duo lighting up the stage at Theatre on King. Fueled by audience suggestions, these two dive headfirst into creating new worlds and meeting a cast of wild and memorable characters. This time around they’ll be digging up unique superpowers and a ludicrously large collection of capes and superbelts as they create an original superhero and all their adventures live before your eyes!
With years of experience making audiences roar with laughter across Canada, Rico and Rostrup have been sharpening their improv skills to a point where anything is possible. Now, they’ve teamed up in Peterborough to form a dynamic comedy duo that will have you laughing so hard, like so hard.
Get ready to laugh until you cry (or cry until you laugh).
Death in reverse: project baroness
May 8-10 @ 8pm, Doors at 7:30PM
Tickets on sale now, limited seating!
Death in Reverse: Project Baroness
Directed by Ryan Kerr
Written by Kate Story, with Ryan Kerr (and drawing on works by various period artists including Claude McKay, William Carlos Williams, Marcel Duchamp, and most especially Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood)
Music by Benj Rowland
Stage management by Shannon McKenzie LeBlanc and Nikki Weatherdon
Set and projections by Annie Jaeger, with Laura Thompson
Performance by Kate Alton, Brad Brackenridge, Aaron Cavan, Naomi Duvall, Matt Gilbert, Daniel Smith, Kate Story, Lindsay Unterlander
The physicist Stephen Hawking once hosted a party for time travellers, only sending out the invitations after the date had already passed.
Nobody came.
Ryan and I have been working on Death in Reverse: Project Baroness since 2017. It’s been plagued with problems: lack of funding; various collaborators hit with calamities. Is it a cursed play?
We have also felt magic: artists committing to it; workshop audiences coming to give feedback; support from regional funders (EC3, Public Energy, Theatre Trent, and 4th Line Theatre through OAC Theatre Recommender funds). Trent Radio’s enthusiastic YES!!! when approached about a live-to-radio broadcast and recording. Sadleir House’s YES!!! to the related show by wonderful visual artist Gary Blundell (paintings of some of TTOK’s DADA shows. It’s up now – and please come to the reception and artist talk on June 20).
A multi-disciplinary, live, staged radio drama based on radical art? It’s the kind of project that would only happen at TTOK.
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Action 705 Improv News: Morning after Night
May 31 @ 8pm, doors at 7:30
Tickets $20, PWYC Option available
The Action 705 Improv troupe is back for another round at The Theatre on King!
The hard-hitting evening news is over, and we now present the transition into a sunnier,
brighter, and even more unpredictable (gasp) morning news style improv show.
The show is a compilation of fun games and long-form improv styles. Expect everything from
chaotic news reporters, devilishly absurd wit, to a cast of memorable and unlikely characters.
Action 705 Improv guarantees laughs, surprises, and a whole lot of made-up mayhem.
This new-format improv showcase is brought to you by the talented cast you’ve loved in Ball
Pit shows and beyond. With a combined on-stage improv experience of 20 years – the show
is produced by Rapid’s End Improv, with special thanks to Klusterfork.
Get ready to laugh and yell out suggestions nobody else wanted to hear–now is your
chance!
