Magic Unicorn Island

Having successfully won conflicts waged against every possible nation and abstract noun, The United Empire issues one final declaration of war on its last remaining adversaries…its own children.

World War Three

Having successfully won conflicts waged against every possible nation and abstract noun, The United Empire issues one final declaration of war on its last remaining adversaries… its own children.

Iago vs. Hamlet

Hamlet The Tragic Dane takes on Othello’s bane Iago in a battle of soliloquies within a rented double-book’d rehearsal space. A folio of metered verse and blood besides doth make for cracking spectacle, so come anon! Mothers, brothers, star-cross’d lovers, all are welcome! No refunds.

Tickets: $10; available online and at the door.

Giant Invisible Robot

Giant Invisible Robot is the story of Russel, a painfully shy young man whose imaginary friend, a giant invisible robot, has stomped alongside him right into adulthood. Told in a series of vignettes, the tale follows Russel’s attempts to find love, purpose and clarity — while simultaneously trying to keep Robot from destroying the Earth one city at a time.

Tickets: $10; available at The ARTS Project box office, 519-642-2767.
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Underbelly

A Fevered Hallucination inspired by the life and works of William S. Burroughs and The Beats

A feverish foray into the mind and spirit of an artist forged at the dawn of The Atomic Age, at constant odds with a society that seemingly has no place for him. Inspired by the life and works of William S. Burroughs and The Beats (Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg), this spoken-word piece trips across decades of social and literary rebellion. Underbelly is a lightning-paced examination of expression, morality and personal evolution.

Tickets: $10; available at The ARTS Project box office, 519-642-2767.

The Purdy Boys in, “Midnight at Mystery Point”

Celebrated teen heartthrob detectives Hank and Mo Purdy team up with their new friend Stacy Blue to solve a real head-scratcher of a brain-stumper in Midnight at Mystery Point. The most exciting adventure yet in the popular “Purdy Boys” series of young adult crime fiction!

Awarded the Venue 2 Impresario performance.

Tickets: $10.

Underbelly

Willy is a pharmaceutical astronaut in search of the whats, whens and wherefores, dissecting The Beat, hearing the strings, cutting and pasting narrative over a backdrop of urban decay and suburban rot, and mapping the Underbelly for future malcontents.

Tickets: $10.

Giant Invisible Robot

Jayson McDonald’s first touring show — the story of a painfully shy young man and his compulsively destructive invisible robot — has won five-star reviews all over the country, and garnered him a London Brickenden Award for Outstanding Original Script, Best Original Work at The Ottawa Fringe Festival, and Best Male Performer and an Innovation Award at The Victoria Fringe Festival. Join McDonald for an evening of mirth, madness and mayhem as he revisits the half-demolished world of Giant Invisible Robot.

Tickets: $10; available at The ARTS Project, 519-642-2767, and at the door.

Celebrity Cult

From an anonymous speck of celestial dust to a blinding supernova of embarrassing behaviour, the rise and fall of our celebrities as seen though a telescope. From the creator of The Boneyard Man, Fall Fair, Boat Load and Giant Invisible Robot.

Tickets: $10, available at the door.

Gunpowder

Jayson McDonald (the actor) has been murdered. Can Thom Phox (not the city’s worst detective) unravel the mystery before he unravels the narrative? A new solo comedy that finds itself quite thrilling.

Awarded the Venue 6 Impresario performance.

Tickets: $10

Boat Load

Gary Bazman is a wonderful, fabulous actor who only needs a thousand dollars to participate in a high-profile arts conference that could be his ticket to stardom. Also, his cat needs a thousand dollar operation, but that’s way too much money to spend on a cat.

Tickets: $10

Gunpowder

A workshop performance of Jayson McDonald’s new solo show.

Tickets: pay-what-you-can

Fall Fair

5 star reviews across the Country for Jayson’s latest about the final day of the Fall Fair. Voted Best Solo Show – Victoria Fringe 2009; Winner of the Times-Colonist Best in Show, Victoria Fringe, 2009

archy and mehitabel; Fall Fair

Ausable Theatre and Stars And Hearts present
A Solo Performance Double Bill

archy and mehitabel

Written and performed by Jeff Culbert
Drawn from the works of Don Marquis
Directed by Jayson McDonald

archy and mehitabel is Jeff Culbert’s stage realization of the classic works by Don Marquis. Originally printed in The New York Evening Sun and The New York Tribune during the first half of the twentieth century, Marquis’ columns feature Archy, a poet reincarnated as a cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat who claims to have been Cleopatra in a former life. Together they wax poetic about (and occasionally rage against) the ins and outs of the modern world, and share a kind of humanity not often seen in non-humans.

Fall Fair

Written and performed by Jayson McDonald
Directed by Jeff Culbert

The barnyard is quiet, the midway is dark, the park is empty. It’s the last day of the Fall Fair, the last day of our acquaintance, and the last time I’ll ever eat a deep-fried Mars Bar.

Please join us for the workshop presentations of these brand new touring shows!

$15 for both shows
Pay What You Can performance Wednesday, March 11 @ 8PM

Boat Load

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Written and performed by Jayson McDonald
Directed by Jeff Culbert

Presented once again for Londoners, as a fundraiser for The Big Comedy Go-To (coming April 16-19 to Londontown)!

Gary Bazman is a fabulous, wonderful actor who only needs a thousand dollars to make his dream of being discovered at a high-profile arts conference a reality. Also, his cat needs a thousand dollar operation or he’ll die, but that’s just way too much money to spend on a cat.

Boat Load has been performed in London, Seattle, Bellingham WA, Saskatoon, Victoria, Ottawa, Winnipeg and New York. It’s received numerous awards, including Outstanding Solo Performance (Ottawa Fringe 2008), Best Original Work and Producer’s Pick (London Fringe 2008), Best Male Performer and Innovation Award (Victoria Fringe, 2008). It made CBC Manitoba’s Top Ten List at The Winnipeg Fringe in 2008.

“I will tell you this: more than three dozen shows into this festival, nothing has made me laugh as much as Jayson McDonald’s Boat Load. Proving he’s no one-hit wonder, McDonald follows up last year’s [Giant Invisible Robot] with a show that is frenetic, twisted, note-perfectly performed and above all, outrageously funny. McDonald and Culbert don’t just turn theatrical convention on its head — they wrestle it to the ground, beat it into submission, and then stand it up remade in their own bizarrely entertaining vision. It’s theatre that’s remarkably fresh, thoroughly engaging, and too good to be true….” 5 Stars — CBC Manitoba (Joff Schmidt)

Boat Load

Gary Bazman is a fabulous, wonderful actor who only needs a thousand dollars to make his dream of being discovered at a touring arts conference a reality. Also, his cat needs a thousand dollar operation, but that’s way too much money to spend on a cat.

Special Fringe “Impresario” performance on Sunday, August 10 at 9:00pm.

Boomerang: Volume 1

Stick to Glue

by Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor

Morphine

by Jayson McDonald

Boat Load

A new solo comedy by Jayson McDonald
Directed by Jeff Culbert

Gary Bazman is a fabulous, wonderful actor who just needs a thousand dollars to make his dream of being discovered at an arts conference come true. Also, his cat needs a thousand dollar operation, but that’s just too much money to spend on a cat.

Tickets $10 at the door
Pay-What-You-Can Saturday, February 2 @ 2PM