2018: A SEX ODYSSEY Comes to Toronto Fringe 2018

Premiering at the Fringe Festival, 2018: A Sex Odyssey is a unique take on sci-fi and reality TV - set at the precipice of an apocalypse. With a diverse cast selected from Toronto's improv and comedy community and a sitcom-style original soundtrack, you won't want to miss this Netflix-style adventure!

2018: A Sex Odyssey re-imagines life in space, Big Brother style, as we careen towards a post-climate change future - focussing on sex, relationships and the interpersonal dramas of six twenty-somethings living together on a spaceship. It begins three months into a two year journey to populate the planet Mars, due to the near total destruction of planet Earth as a direct result of human caused climate change and the wars that ensued. Still, no one really cares about climate change.

Theresa Ramirez, first time writer/director, always wondered why spaceships in sci-fi movies were all white and sterile and science-y. The initial inspiration for 2018: A Sex Odyssey came from re-imagining space travel as a group of people living together in a shared space - rather than focusing on the sci-fi action and drama of space mishaps. Instead, Theresa wanted to focus on navigating interpersonal dramas, relationships and sex in such a confined space. And all this in the context of climate change of course (Theresa works for an environmental organization by day). Once cast, all the actors had the opportunity to discuss their character and further develop the script - so that this would be a collaborative experience, and for it to feel like they really are all living on one big spaceship!

THE TEAM:

Theresa Ramirez (Writer/Director) is a stand up comedian.
Paul McEachern (Music/Sound) plays music in the popular Toronto band, Most People.
Mike Pereira (Projections) - Packed Lunch Visuals.
Emma Doyle (Costume Design) is a designer working in fashion and film; The Handmaid's Tale, Star Trek: Discovery.
Samara Stern (Actor) graduated from the long-form improv conservatory at Second City, Toronto Fringe (U.S. Drag), Next Stage Theatre Festival and the Canstage Innovators Program.
Alex Clay (Actor) - Toronto Fringe - Patron's Pick (Inch of Your Life: Episode 1), The Theatre Circuit, Hamilton Fringe.
Demetria Sherman (Actor) - ReelHeART International Film Festival.
Wilfred Lee (Actor) - Seoul Players, South Korea.

Set in 2018, but a different, post-sex, post-Earth 2018, A Sex Odyssey examines our current (complicated, messy) lives - alongside a backdrop of the Earth rapidly falling apart.

Tickets for all Fringe productions are $12. Tickets can be purchased online fringetoronto.com, by phone (416-966-1062, business hours only), in-person from the festival box office located at the Fringe patio at Scadding Court - 707 Dundas Street West, or - if any remain - from the venue box office (cash-only), starting one hour before showtime, St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2H4. Tickets go on sale June 7, 2018.

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