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Gymnase (410 Rachel E.) from June 15-23. Runs 110 minutes.
$10.
MONTREAL ROLLER DERBY If you’ve never attended
this rock ‘em sock ‘em league of kickass chicks battling it out
for real on a flat track, then do NOT miss this special Fringe
battle royale, featuring two match-ups: New Skids On The
Block vs Suburban (Steel City Derby Demons) at 6 pm, followed
by the Fringe Half-Time Show, and then Les Contrabanitas
vs Derby Debutantes (GTA Rollergirls) at 8 pm. With
hosts Plastik Patrik, Single Malt Scott, FLQ and Private Stacks.
June 9 at Arena St-Louis (5633 St-Dominique) beginning at 6
p.m. Runs 180 minutes. $10-15.
It’s important to remember that the Montreal Fringe Festival
is an awesome launching pad for theatre, comedy, dance, music and
visual artists – over 500 just this year alone.
Montreal writer Steve Galluccio – who wrote the hugely successful
play Mambo Italiano and then adapted it for the screen – famously
got his start at the Montreal Fringe in 1991 (his several Fringe plays
in the early-‘90s included spoofs of The Brady Bunch and Batman
and Robin).
“I’m proud to be a Montreal Fringe alumni,” Steve told me when he
was named official spokesperson for last year’s festival. “It’s a great
place to start your career, an amazing platform to learn how to do it
all. I was there the first four years, from 1991 to ‘94. I learned how to
put on a play with no money; I learnt that sets aren’t important – it’s
what you put onstage that counts. I grew up in front of an audience.
Sometimes they’d like something, sometimes they didn't, and I’d
make changes. I learned to sell myself – which is so important – and
get people into the theatre.”
This year’s edition of the Montreal Fringe Festival runs from June 4-
24 at various venues. Advance tickets are recommended. For all
shows, times and venues, surf to www.montrealfringe.ca. Happy
Fringing! 6 RICHARD BURNETT
Read Richard Burnett’s POP TART blog for The Montreal Gazette at
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/category/montreal/pop-tart/.
Read Burnett’s national queer-issues column Three Dollar Bill online at
www.bugsburnett.blogspot.com.
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