Well, it’s that time of year again when Toronto’s actors, writers and directors take over every available theatre space to present their latest works and entertain us. And I’m proud to announce that my talented friend Tricia Williams and her castmates will be presenting their fabulous and funny Grown Ass’d Broads Talkin’ Dirty to audiences in the Crest Theatre Green Room at the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) 110 The Esplanade starting July 2.
The play tells of five bawdy and fierce broads who meet monthly to enjoy theme parties at each
others’ houses – friends since they belonged to the same volley ball team as teenagers. We catch up with them several decades later; they are not so much friends as sisters…sometimes rivaling sisters. There will be booze, food, bitching, arguing, laughing and cussing. It’s like an episode of the Golden Girls but funnier…and dirtier!
Grown Ass*d Broads Broads Talkin’ Dirty was written by the incomparable Valerie Boyle (pictured below). At 75 years old, this is her first Toronto Fringe Festival! She was most recently seen on Canada’s Got Talent and wowed the judges with her sense of humour and her poignant rendition of Send in the Clowns. Valerie starred for several years on Broadway as Mrs. Brill in Mary Poppins. She was Shirley in Shirley Valentine for a Canadian Tour and Mother Superior in Nunsense for twelve productions – a role she is resurrecting in July at the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia for Nunsense’s 40th Anniversary.
Director Christel Bartelse has wowed Fringe audiences and beyond, with her one-woman shows and has been nominated twice for a Canadian Comedy Award and has earned rave reviews. She has toured every major Canadian fringe festival, as well as several in the U.S. and has performed twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The cast includes Andrea Davis (Intimate Apparel, Hamlet), Jorie Morrow (Disarming Venus, Checkpoint 300), Linda Joyce Nourse (Transplant and the Women at Play Festival), Morrie Sinkins (Disarming Venus, Shaw Festival) and Tricia Williams (The Sorauren Book Club, Hymns and Hearse).
Get your tickets now at: www.fringetoronto.com
