Chez MainLine 2012-10-09
9 October 2012
A big thank you to all who came out to help celebrate our seventh anniversary. I myself was unable to stay and party as much as I would have wanted to but I have spent the last three days lost in a Neo citron and Nyquil enduced haze. Hopefully all the phlegm will clear up in time for this week's shows because they are going to be AWESOME!
First up we have:
The MAP Project: Social Lab
MAP Project, the company who brought you MAP: Season One, is embarking on Season Two at MainLine Theatre. This year, we're opening up our 'Social Lab' video-documentation process to YOU:
and we’d like to celebrate!
MAP is hosting our very first Event on Thursday October 11th and it’s free!
We’re changing the Mainline into a living room and will feature some music and performance interludes, in between some dancing and talking.
Come for the party, stay for the performance interludes featuring some Montreal emerging artists.
MAP Project develops our shows from verbatim video documentary taken from our own lives. Every sunday night, we hang out, film ourselves, and write scripts from our own words and stories. On Thursday October 11th, we're converting MainLine theatre into a MAP 'Social Lab' living room, complete with music, drinks, and cameras. Come do your own 'bathroom confessional', and have the chance to get your words into the next MAP script... or even perform in the next MAP show.
Thursday 9pm and I beleive this one's FREE.
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Also on Thursday at 9pm in The Mini Main we have:
Let's Do This! #01: Get Smashed.
Bloody Underrated & DeAnne Smith are proud to present LET'S DO THIS! - 5 events, 5 different themes, featuring music by the band 5ive*.
You are cordially invited to join us on October 11th at 9PM for a night of comedy and drinking at MainLine Theatre.
Part 1 of LET'S DO THIS is appropriately titled "Get Smashed!", because we're all going to be drinking throughout the show, playing drinking games with you, and laughing our collective asses off. Why not? The world is fucked, let's party! LET'S DO THIS!
Hosted by Al Lafrance, this night will feature comedy by:
Molly Brisebois
Greg Hamilton
Leighland Beckman
and your headliner DeAnne Smith!
LET'S DO THIS!
*Al reserves the right to NOT play anything by 5ive other than "When The Lights Go Out".
Doors at 8:30, show starts at 9, only 5$!
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FALL COLOURS HOOTENANY
Friends,
There is an Autumn chill in the wind. Come and warm yourselves to the acoustic sounds of the Friday Night Hootenanny!
The October Hootenanny features:
The return of Cajun favorites, Grouyan Gombo! They played a set at the March Hootenanny that got everyone out of their seats!
http://www.myspace.com/grouyangombo
David Simard has sweet sound. Many will swoon...
http://www.davidsimard.ca/
The All Day Breakfast String Band is crammed with so much talent that it should be a controlled substance.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-All-Day-Breakfast-Stringband/24049192...
The Great Unwashed are one of my favorite bands. Two lonesome voices two banjos, one big sound.
http://greatunwashed.bandcamp.com/track/met-my-love
Michael Freeman and David Koch are The 18 Wheelers. Banjo and guitar. Check out the song "Metropolis Blues"
reverbnation.com/18wheelerfreeman
All this and Jesse Orr at the Cheap Art table as well!
Come on down to the Hoot! Bring all your friends, and have a grand time!
Friday October 12th PWYC. 10pm
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Confabulation: Masquerade
Confabulation is a unique storytelling event in Montreal where all the stories are true. They are honest accounts, told without notes, props, or gimmicks. The show is inspired by The Moth, and millennia of oral tradition history, and hopes to encourage the practice and art of storytelling in this contemporary world.
Hosted and produced by local actor and comedian Matt Goldberg, Confabulation brings you a showcase of unique, true tales told live by people.
All kinds of people.
Doctors. Boxers. Students. Grandmas. You.
Anybody.
And hopefully, everybody.
October's theme is Masquerade: Stories about disguises, mysteries and adventures undercover.
Storytellers TBA.
Saturday Oct. 13th at 8pm 6$
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The Alcoholic Cinema #001
Bloody Underrated is proud to be celebrating its 1000 days of existence by launching a brand-new monthly event that's all about great movies and stiff drinks.
Here's how it works:
We pick two movies.
You vote for which one you'd like to watch by commenting on the Facebook page of this event (https://www.facebook.com/events/208223402640908/)
Voting closes the day before the show.
The B.U. Team invents a drinking game based on the film with the most votes, as well as a unique drink to be served exclusively on the night of the show.
...then you come watch the film, play the game, and have fun!
Admission is 5$, and that includes your first drink.
THE MOVIES COMPETING FOR YOUR LOVE THIS MONTH ARE:
The Blob (1958) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
vs.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/)
Vote below, and we'll see you on the 13th!
And as always, keep an eye on http://www.bloodyunderrated.net/ for good times and good reads.
Saturday October 13th at 10pm only 5$!
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Don't forget Tickets are onsale now for Many upcoming MainLine shows including Richard OBrien's Rocky Horror Show and God is a Scottish Drag Queen 2 :The Second Coming. Check www.mainlinetheatre.ca for complete(ish) listings.
Is it just me, or do a lot of the events at MainLine involve lots of drinking?
Jeremy Hechtman
Artistic and Executive Director
