Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts

Le fa le do follows Albert, an archivist nearing retirement. As he sorts through recordings at the National Archives, he discovers a magnetic tape with the anonymous voice of a young woman singing Fado music. Mesmerized by her sensual and heart-rending voice, Albert is determined to locate the woman behind it.

He becomes unwillingly entangled in a wild cobweb of romantic setbacks, political conspiracies, State secrets, and occult groups. Torn between truth and absurdity, Albert will pursue his quest with the help of Jean-Daniel, the “urban cowboy.” Le fa le do is a story of people who love and shun each other; an adventure combining the wild west, satire, political thriller, and of course music.  

For one night only, Toronto artist Evalyn Parry performs her tour-de-force show that’s part theatre, part concert, part spoken word poetry, part documentary. Starring the bicycle as a muse, musical instrument and agent of social change, Parry spins a web of stories which travel from 19th century women’s emancipation to 21st century consumer culture, peeling back layers of history to ultimately reveal a profoundly contemporary and personal heart to her theme of liberation. SPIN is inspired, in part, by the incredible true tale of Annie Londonderry – the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1894.

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