Splitting his time between teaching and improv, Canada and the states, comedy and storytelling, Joe Conto is used to being in between worlds. Joe uses his standpoint to share this story of stuff rich people like, an irritable top chef, and butter ducks.
Story recorded at Confabulation presents the turning point — stories of change, transformation and rebirth on Friday, November 18, 2011.
A regular to Confabulation, improviser, comedian and writer Zoe Daniels opens up another side of her personality, sharing this intimate and difficult story of young romance, surprising and traumatic turns in life, and what comes after.
Story recorded at Confabulation presents Summer Love on Friday, July 20, 2012.
Joel Fishbane tells us a story about someone else’s 40 years of love.
Joel Fishbane telling his story at the McCord Museum’s Urban Forest.
Joel Fishbane is a local author, actor, playwright and man about town. If you can’t find him out on the town, you can find out more about him at www.joelfishbane.com/
Originally told at Confabulation presents Inherited Stories – stories we’ve picked up from our friends and families on Wednesday, August 8, 2012.
Sage Tyrtle, a Toronto-based raconteur, shares this story about unconventional homes, changing families, and an improbably named little girl.
Originally told at Confabulation presents Summer Love on Friday, July 20, 2012.
For our second anniversary show, Made to be broken, we invited our storytellers to break all the rules, except one – the stories still had to be true. Asaf decided to tell us someone else’s story. The story of a place. A place that was suppose to be happy but turned out to be one of the most macabre amusement parks around.
That place was Action Park.
Asaf Gerchak breaking the rules by reading his story from a ‘well-cited’ wikipedia article.
*I might say, never has a wikipedia article been so funny.
Colin tells us the story of his first marriage (in kindergarden) and how finding out that she ate things that were completely different opened his eyes to different cultures. This synopsis does not do the stories humour justice. Trust me.
Photo by Tristan Brand – http://www.tristanbrand.com
Originally told at Confabulation presents Food For Thinking — tales of the delicious, nutritious and suspicious on Saturday, April 7, 2012.
Maclean’s kindly contacted us about the revival of storytelling in Canada and spoke to Matt about Confabulation. At the end of the article they mention two of our stories that you can listen to here on our site. Both are from our March show ‘Confabulation presents Strange Luck : Tales of the Twists and Turns of Fate’ – Taylor Towers : Love affairs & lazy eyes and Joel Fishbane : Driving the 401.
Read the whole article “Canada’s new storytellers make a virtue of speaking the truth” by Joanne Latimer on their site.
Confabulation stage set up to go – Photo by Jeremy Clarke
Saturday, May 12, 2012
8:00 pm @ MainLine Theatre, 3997 boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC H2W 1Y4
For two years now, Confabulation has been Montreal’s premier monthly storytelling showcase, featuring true-life stories from people in and around Montreal. All of our stories have been true as can be told, from the person who experienced them, without notes, props, or gimmicks of any kind.
But all things change.
For one very special night, we are inviting our storytellers to bend, break, or ignore these special limitations. The stories will still be true. The stories will still be stories. However, everything else goes out the window. Stories can be stylized, or feature props, or be told in a different medium — we’re open to anything.
Plus: cake! Matt’s making a cake. So should you. Just like last year, rules are made to be broken, cake is made to be shared.
AND
Be sure to attend, not only to witness the mayhem, to eat the delicious Confabulation Birthday cake, but also to hear line-up for Confabulation presents: The Best of Year Two special, coming up in June for the 2012 Montreal Fringe!
But wait! There’s MORE! We’ll also be announcing the ENTIRE line-up of themes for the 2012-2013 season.
FEATURING!
Joe Conto tells us a story about the relationship of food and sin in his family growing up Catholic.
Photo by Tristan Brand – http://www.tristanbrand.com
Originally told at Confabulation presents Food For Thinking — tales of the delicious, nutritious and suspicious on Saturday, April 7, 2012.
Everybody has their first job story. A lot of these stories involve fast food. Al Lafrance tells us the story of what happens if you stay at McDonalds for 2 years and work the graveyard shift.
Photo by Tristan Brand - http://www.tristanbrand.com
Originally told at Confabulation presents Food For Thinking — tales of the delicious, nutritious and suspicious on Saturday, April 7, 2012.
Decidedly filed under ‘suspicious’.
