ring rats fundraiser #1
Friday March 28 @ 8pm, doors @ 7:30
Tickets $25
Ring Rats, the smash hit Planet 12 production is now becoming a movie!
Join Larissa Greenwood (Samuelle Weatherdon) and Waldo Breen (Brad Brackenridge) as they go up against each other in a titanic battle of wits in the classic game show “Password”!
Tasked with getting their teammates to say the word they’ve been given, Waldo and Larissa are going to put the true spirit of teamwork to the test in this no holds barred match to see who really has a way with words! With Adam Martignetti as your intrepid host, some fabulous raffle prizes, and a performance by some of Peterborough’s greatest Improv minds including Dan Smith, Marc Ludwig, and Naomi DuVall, this will be a night not to be forgotten.
All proceeds from the evening will go towards raising funds to bring Ring Rats to the big screen. For more information about the production and how you can help, visit www.ringrats.ca!
world-premiere: Butcher the Pig
April 3 -12, 8pm + saturday matinees
Tickets are on sale now!
A lonely warehouse in the middle of nowhere, Saskatchewan. A young man arrives seeking help. His estranged uncle might be his saving grace, or a sociopath. This one-act Canadian drama is a gripping, and sometimes hilarious, exploration of urban vs. rural manhood, family and responsibility. Most of all, it is about being a Canadian.
Written by Marc Rico Ludwig
Directed by Drew Antzis
CURTIS – Marc Rico Ludwig
RENO – Tom Quinn
Run time: 90 Minutes / NO Intermission
Recommended Age:16+ Contains strong language, discussions of suicide, guns and butchering a pig.
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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