{"id":165618,"date":"2023-07-07T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=165618"},"modified":"2023-07-07T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:05:59","slug":"award-winning-duo-come-back-to-the-fringe-festival-with-new-show-gay-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/award-winning-duo-come-back-to-the-fringe-festival-with-new-show-gay-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning duo come back to the Fringe Festival with new show ‘Gay Agenda’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The award winning performance art duo of Daniel Krolick and Curtis Campbell mark their second show at the Toronto Fringe Festival with Blake and Clay\u2019s Gay Agenda<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This year's performance is a sequel to the previous comedy show Gay for Pay with Blake and Clay<\/em>. The show was about the titular characters explaining to straight actors how to act gay in productions. The roles of Blake and Clay are performed by Jonathan Wilson and Krolick.<\/p>\n

The new performance is about Blake and Clay creating a set of rules for the whole LGBTQ2+ community.<\/p>\n

Gay for Pay<\/em> had Krolick and Campbell nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award of Outstanding new play for the performance. Despite not winning a Dora award, they won the 2022 Second City award for Outstanding Comedy.<\/p>\n

Even with the nominations and wins with Gay for Pay,<\/em> Krolock says that it\u2019s never been their aim: he says that thinking of writing to win awards only \u201ctrips you up\u201d and is something he avoids thinking about to avoid \u201claying awake at night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t approach writing [Gay Agenda<\/em>] with any different objective than we did a year ago. Writing Agenda<\/em>, our objectives were exactly the same. We pick out satirical targets and talk about what makes us really angry. We love what we are disgusted by in our culture and build a show around that,\u201d says Campbell.<\/p>\n

Krolick and Campbell say they are using the premise as a way to vent their issues with the community in an honest, fair and entertaining way. In the writing process, Krolick says that he and Campbell made sure they were \u201calways punching sideways and never down\u201d with their jokes so their criticisms were fair and funny.<\/p>\n

The criticism used in the show comes from the lived experience of Krolick, Campbell and Wilson. Krolick says that in the writing room, there were three generations of gay voices to play off of.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019m just really obsessed with queer community infighting and the way that we sort of eternally fight each other because at least that gets results,\u201d says Krolick. \u201cI have spent decades pretending to like certain things about gay culture that I have absolutely no affinity towards. So I poured all of that disdain into the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think even just saying that it\u2019s irksome how eternally divided the queer community is and poking fun at that is kind of a contentious thing to say,\u201d says Campbell.<\/p>\n

Krolick and Campbell first worked on a show together in 2020 with the production wrapping up before the pandemic. They kept in touch and worked together on YouTube videos and podcasts, and when 2022 came around a slot at that year's Fringe fest \u201cdropped into [their] laps.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Fringe Festival comes creative freedom for the people who acquire a performance slot: Krolick says that the festival has given them the ability to create a show with no compromises in writing that they want to make. The only thing they have to adhere to is a deadline for the script.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what Fringe should be used for. It should be used for these ridiculous, insane ideas in a relatively low stakes, low risk environment,\u201d says Campbell.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust in terms of what you can put on stage it really begs you to create something sparse and that can get put up and down in a good six minutes. It really makes you have to have really good performances or really good writing,\u201d says Krolick.<\/p>\n

Gay Agenda<\/em> will be performed for four nights at the Tarragon Theatre on July 7, July 9, July 13 and July 14.<\/p>\n

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