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The Kick & Push Festival

The Kick & Push Festival celebrates immersive storytelling through innovative performances, fostering community engagement and artistic expression. It aims to explore contemporary themes, connecting audiences with transformative experiences in the arts.

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 TK Studio, Rm 111 (August 8 and 11) Improvised! Tonight, join your host, Jimmy Limestone with special guests, games, and gags in this totally improvised tribute to late night comedy!

LATEPROV

TK Studio, Rm 111 The untrustworthy Card Slinger of Toledo, Brazil, returns to Kingston more diabolical than EVER!! &hellip; An absolute must see!

El Diablo of the Cards

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Hillary Yass: The show&rsquo;s over when her boobs hit the floor. Being a M.O.W.W. (stands for: miserable old white woman) is more of a state of mind than an insult or acronym. Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, Lucille Ball&hellip; all of them were MOWWs! And yet all of them were great!

M.O.W.W.

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Nancy Kenny. Lace up, take the hit, and discover the hero you didn&rsquo;t know you were. An award-winning one-woman action-comedy where shy Amy and her bold sister June navigate roller derby&rsquo;s fierce world and discover their inner strength.

Roller Derby Saved My Soul

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Randall Craig. A new urban musical; Meet Esther, a modern day heroine who inspires people to believe that each person can make a difference.

Who Is Esther

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Matt Shepherd. A theatre experiment, a transient oasis, a personal challenge, an act of defiance. Join a live audience to sit. In goddamn silence. For one hour.

Let Us Sit In Silence For One Goddamn Hour

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Kate Barker. The old gang meets at Marcia&rsquo;s bar one last time while fascist blockheads are on the prowl. Someone is there to help&ndash;sort of&ndash;though they never really know it.

NUTZ

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Sandy Gibson. The wild world of weddings from the one that hitches you up!

Making It Official

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Dan Walmsley. An anthropologist investigates a mysterious artefact, triggering a descent into cosmic horror that entangles those around him in a disturbing pattern where perception shifts and understanding itself becomes dangerously irreversible.

The Silk Lining

TK Studio, Rm 111 A show that answers the question &ldquo;is there life after death?&rdquo; with &ldquo;yes, and &hellip;&rdquo;

Crossing Improv

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Gord Love and Michael Capon. Small desks. Big voices. One unforgettable first day.

Rulers

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Nancy Edwards. Cultural na&iuml;vet&eacute; meets ancestral wisdom; heartfelt stories about community health work in the villages of Sierra Leone. Nancy bridges cultural divides with village chiefs and traditional birth attendants. This play is full of humanity.

Rethinking Good Intentions

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Grace Delamere. There is no anger like that of a woman. A desired object is still an object. When a banker walks into a brothel and pays for an hour with the most expensive woman, what he gets is not what either of them expected. Witty, furious, and addictively intimate.

There is No Anger Like That of a Woman

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Elias Campbell. Following a traumatic incident, Hilary becomes concerned with health issues to the point of obsession, often seeking reassurance from her closest friend.

Speaking of Hilary

TK Studio, Rm 111 By Kar Kerr. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The Third Law

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 By Iulia Rus. Blood clots v. Tissues boxes. Fighting to be heard beneath the slew of laugh tracks, witness testimonies, a familiar TV show host and a live studio audience. Let&rsquo;s find out if you are the mother.

Nosebleed

Rehearsal Hall, Rm 203 What happens when I come into contact with a body in all its forms &ndash; when I see in my feet, hear in my hands and speak in vibrations?

Speaking Vibrations

At the Tett Centre for Creativity &amp; Learning, in the Tett Gallery on the First Floor. The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave created by the award winning trio Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer is in Kingston for one night only all the way from New Zealand. Condensed into 1 hour, feel the atmosphere, heat and intensity of a 3-day rave set to the adrenaline-pumping techno album &lsquo;Nocturbulous Behaviour&rsquo; by Suburban Knight. The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave is an endurance-based dance work with relentless movement detailed down to every beat without pause. Exploring the movement used in techno and rave culture, witness the destruction of 3 humans. Indulge in the pain, the sweat; a display of pure endurance to achieve a goal. A spectacle of the human body as a victim to music, to passion, to our endless desire to achieve more. To win and win again. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like firing a machine gun for an hour and remembering the name of every bullet.&rdquo; reviewed Mark Harding for the Broadway Baby in August 2025.

The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

Presented in the Tett Centre Rehearsal Hall. Using audience interaction, stand-up comedy, games and storytelling, DADS makes space for the sometimes complicated, sometimes hilarious, and always impactful relationships we have with the men who made us. With each show different from the next, this playful piece wrestles with whether honour and honesty can truly go hand in hand. Brought to you by award-winning playwright Taylor Trowbridge and award-winning director Dylan Trowbridge, this &quot;Best of The Toronto Fringe&quot; show also features a new guest comedian at each performance sharing a set about their own father.

DADS

Presented in partnership between The Kick &amp; Push Festival and Centre Culturel Frontenac A MAN IN UNIFORM APPEARS AT THE END OF THE HALLWAY. Follow him and discover the surprising and fascinating nightly routine of a janitor as he makes his rounds through classrooms and the hidden corners of a school. Step into a wordless immersive experience where reality transforms into a dream. Exploring the place of today&rsquo;s working class, Le Concierge offers a moving portrait of a solitary individual whose work is too often taken for granted. Please note:<ul fr-original-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Unfortunately, Le Concierge is not accessible to individuals using wheelchairs or requiring other mobility aids.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Only 20 audience members are admitted per performance.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The performance includes the wearing of a costume (provided on-site).</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Some scenes take place in dim lighting and confined spaces.</li></ul>Conceived and Interpreted by:&nbsp;Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin Co-created by:&nbsp;Daniele Bartolini and Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin Directed by:&nbsp;Daniele Bartolini Sound Design:&nbsp;Andrea Gozzi Lighting Design:&nbsp;Sarah Mansikka Set and Costume Design:&nbsp;Melanie McNeill Stage Management:&nbsp;Christoph Ibrahim Production Manager: Melanie Hall Dramaturgical Consultant:&nbsp;Jo&euml;l Beddows Movement Consultant:&nbsp;Marie-Jos&eacute;e Chartier

Le Concierge (The Caretaker)

Pr&eacute;sent&eacute; par The Kick &amp; Push Festival et le Centre Culturel Frontenac UN HOMME EN UNIFORME APPARA&Icirc;T AU BOUT DU COULOIR. Suivez-le et d&eacute;couvrez le quotidien nocturne et &eacute;tonnant d&rsquo;un concierge alors qu&rsquo;il effectue sa ronde dans les classes et les bas-fonds d&rsquo;un &eacute;tablissement scolaire. Plongez dans une exp&eacute;rience immersive sans paroles o&ugrave; le r&eacute;el se transforme en r&ecirc;ve. Interrogeant la place de la classe ouvri&egrave;re d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui, Le Concierge dresse le portrait touchant d&rsquo;un personnage solitaire dont le travail est trop souvent tenu pour acquis. &Agrave; noter :<ul fr-original-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Chaque repr&eacute;sentation du Concierge ne sera malheureusement PAS accessible aux individus en chaise roulante ou ayant besoin d&rsquo;autres &eacute;quipements d&rsquo;aide &agrave; la mobilit&eacute;.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Seulement 20 places sont disponibles par repr&eacute;sentation.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Le spectacle comprend le port d&rsquo;un costume (qui sera fourni sur place)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Certaines sc&egrave;nes seront en &eacute;clairage tamis&eacute; et dans des espaces restreints.</li></ul>Conception et interpr&eacute;tation : Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin Co-cr&eacute;ation : Daniele Bartolini et Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin Mise en sc&egrave;ne : Daniele Bartolini Conception sonore : Andrea Gozzi Conception des &eacute;clairages : Sarah Mansikka Conception des d&eacute;cors et des costumes : Melanie McNeill Direction de sc&egrave;ne : Christoph Ibrahim Direction de production : Melanie Hall Conseil dramaturgique : Jo&euml;l Beddows Conseil en mouvement : Marie-Jos&eacute;e Chartier