Theatre Brouhaha

The Unseen Hand

admin — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:11:14 +0000

Premiered May 2013 The Unseen Hand by Sam Shepard is part of Toronto's Playwright Project Festival, May 1 - 7.

Rock

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:29:17 +0000

Premiered March 2013
A story about love, friendship, and how far you'd go to protect someone you care about...who has recently started bludgeoning people to death with rocks.

Recommended books from team Help Yourself

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:02:51 +0000

To kick the year off, Theatre Brouhaha did a remount of Help Yourself at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto and then took the show on the road to Kingston (January 21 & 22) and Kitchener (January 25 & 26) – the first Theatre Brouhaha tour ever.

While dining at the Lone Star in Kingston, Tim Walker (Ted of Help Yourself) presented the Brouhaha team with a question: If you could only recommend one book for the rest of your life, which book would that be? It was a great question and it inevitably led to us sharing our favourite and most interesting books we’ve ever read. Here are our responses:

Rule of the bone (Russel Banks)
East of Eden. (John Steinbeck)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
All of the names (José Saramago)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)

Thank you, 2012

admin — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:20:50 +0000

2012 was the year that Brouhaha had its Bar Mitzvah/Bat Mitzvah and officially became a (wo)man.

Theatre Brouhaha’s Best of 2012 list

We restaged our original show LOVESEXMONEY by Kat Sandler at the 2012 Fringe NextStage Festival. Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star said “Kat Sandler is the writer to watch this year.” That was really nice.
We participated in the first annual Playwright Project with an exceptional roster of companies and performed Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton at venues all across the city.
We were the recipient of the Toronto Fringe Festival’s “New Play Contest” award for our show Help Yourself by Kat Sandler, supported by the ever helpful @marcetotw. Help Yourself had a very successful run at the Toronto Fringe, selling out nearly every show and winning Best of Fringe and the Patrons’ Pick award. Jian Ghomeshi said on CBC’s Q,”This young writer, Kat Sandler, is just a fantastic theatre writer. This thing could be a huge play. It’s just fantastic.”
We self-produced Delicacy by Kat Sandler at the Factory Studio Theatre in the fall. Jorn Weisbrodt, Artistic Director of Luminato said ”The play functions like a drug, you just want more as you go along.” That was pretty awesome.
An audience member said “The movies should be this good.”

It is without trepidation that we announce our plans for 2013.

What do we have planned for 2013

Help Yourself, our Fringe Festival show, returns with 13 shows: nine at the Red Sandcastle theatre, two in Kingston and two in Kitchener.
A mystery project in March.
We are participating in the second annual Playwright Project.
We are putting on a site-specific show at the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival in July. This will be a party.
A staging of a new play by Kat Sandler (she puts the Bro in Brouhaha) in November. All details to be determined.
We plan to smatter the year with great little Brouhaha events, like last year’s fundraiser for Help Yourself which had guests purchase words, sentences, characters and events that Kat and dramaturge Tom McGee had to write into a play – live at the fundraiser – to be performed at the end of the night.

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Help Yourself Trailers

admin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:23:32 +0000

Watch video trailers of Help Yourself character Donny being a devil-on-your-shoulder for hire while hanging out at Toronto businesses.

Delicacy

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:11:27 +0000

Premiered October 25, 2012 Two couples met at a sex club. Now, two weeks later, they are trying to recapture their chemistry in a Yorkville condo.

LOVESEXMONEY

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:19:18 +0000

Premiered February 2011 || Restaged January 2012
LOVESEXMONEY depicts the imagined meeting between a young student who is auctioning her virginity online, and the man who purchases it.

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:18:58 +0000

Premiered May 2012
Rivaling cotton gin owners play dark and impossibly dirty in what Tennessee Williams called “A Mississippi Delta comedy”.

Help Yourself

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:07:02 +0000

Premiered July 2012
Help Yourself is the story of 35-year-old Donny who, for a price, will be a devil on your shoulder for hire and help you justify your immoral actions.

Kat Sandler & Glenn Sumi @ 2012 Toronto Fringe Festival

Brouhaha — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:55:22 +0000

Kat Sandler, writer and director of Theatre Brouhaha, is interviewed by Glenn Sumi, Editor/Writer for NOW Magazine at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. The play Help Yourself by Kat Sandler won the New Play Contest, The Best of Fringe and The Patrons’ Pick at the 2012 Fringe Festival, July 4-15.