October 2008
$4370.10 is the total of
donations collected from patrons of Crude Love across Canada for Greenpeace's
Stop the Tar Sands Campaign in Edmonton. This is more than double
our goal of raising $2012, the year in which the play occurs.
Vancouver's Jericho Arts Centre hosts Crude Love to play two shows in their Beyond the Fringe Series
September
2008
Crude Love wins Pick of the Fringe, as voted by Vancouver's patrons at
the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, and is awarded three extra
shows at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island.
Crude Love sells out the entire run at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival.
August 2008
Crude Love sells out the entire run at the Edmonton International Fringe
Festival, the only play to completely sell out at the festival, and is
selected as Pick of the Fringe.
Crude Love receives its first five-star review, on Global TV. See the review on youtube.
July 2008
Crude Love sells out it's first show in Toronto.
Crude Love receives its first four-star review from eye weekly. See the review.
June 2008
Russell and Gillian depart Vancouver on June 1, and head for Montreal
to set up for their first city of eight.
See
Big Smoke's BLOG with more details on Crude Love's Canadian Fringe Festival
Tour
Ian Johns creates Crude Love's Facebook Group
Crude Love wins the Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Ottawa Fringe Festival.
May 2008
Gillian and Russell rehearse Crude Love with Emelia.
In preparation for their four-month tour across Canada and on their first-year wedding anniversary, Russell and Gillian and their good friend Ivan/Paul pack all their belongings into a storage box and pack their car, including two large tree stumps as their set. Later they will dispense of one stump, becoming a one-stump show.
January 2008
Russell and Gillian write three different first drafts of Crude Love on
and around Nicaragua's beach towns of San Juan del Sur and Marsella.