TheatreOne’s Popular Fringe Flick Series Returns with First Four Film Announcement 

Generously sponsored by VIcondos.com, Katz Martini Lounge, and Red Door Yoga, TheatreOne is thrilled to present their Fringe Flick Series at Galaxy Cinemas beginning September 17^th with 12 award winning independent films from festival line-ups such as Cannes, Berlin, LA, and Toronto.  This year TheatreOne has added a 1pm screening on Sundays, so now you have your choice from four screening times for each film! Sunday 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and Monday at 7pm. With Fringe Flicks, Nanaimo audiences have the opportunity to see first-run foreign and domestic alternative films that might not otherwise receive a big-screen showing here. 

Starting the season off September 17^th and 18^th is Deepa Mehta’s film FIRE, the first in her controversial, element inspired trilogy.  In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin.  The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom.  Family tensions escalate.  Radha, Sita’s sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her disappointed husband Ashok (Sita’s husband’s brother) has taken a vow of celibacy, acquired a swami and is often gone.  Eventually Sita and Radha develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands. 

On October 1^st and 2nd, TheatreOne brings WAH-WAH to the screen.  Richard E. Grant’s impressive directorial debut is a big-hearted, crowd-pleasing film that opened the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival and was presented at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival®. Lifting an early chapter from Grant’s own life, WAH-WAH depicts his coming-of-age in Swaziland in the final days of the British Empire, offering an intimate perspective on Britain’s imperial venture while vividly revealing one boy’s creative awakening. 

Continuing the series October 22^nd and 23^rd is THE MISTRESS OF SPICES. In a scented shop in the enchanted burg of Oakland, California, mistress Tilo (Bollywood superstar Aiswarya Rai) works her magic. One of a secret clan of women, Tilo deals in roots, plants and powders from around the world. Drawing on ancient wisdom, she measures out remedies to cure heartache, banish bad luck and rescue the wretched from life’s wrong turns. Of course, Oakland is hardly Shangri-La, but the collision of romance and reality is exactly what makes THE MISTRESS OF SPICES so charming. 

U-Carmen eKHAYELITSHA rounds out the first four films of the season on November 5^th and 6^th. The world’s most famous opera – Bizet’s Carmen – is transposed from the cobbled laneways of Seville to the dust and lust of Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township. Mark Donford-May’s exceptional directorial debut – which won the Golden Bear at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival – offers this spirited tribute to the power of African music. 

Subscriptions to the entire Fringe Flick Series (12 films) are still available for Sunday 1pm and 4pm screenings at an affordable $101, including $5 for annual TheatreOne membership.  Single tickets for each screening are $10. 

As a not-for-profit charitable organization TheatreOne relies on funding from many sources in order to be able to provide professional live theatre to our Nanaimo and area audience.  In addition to this, TheatreOne also creates revenue streams through our fundraising initiatives.  FRINGE FLICKS is one of these engines.  Thank you to everyone who comes to the films.  You are assisting us in ensuring that professional, live theatre produced in Nanaimo by local & regional artists continues to thrive. Enjoy the films! Please call TheatreOne at 250.754.7587 to purchase your tickets, or go to www.theatreone.org/tickets.php

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