Malunderstood by Kenny Streule at the Hamilton Fringe Festival

Kenny and his grandmother are hitting the road this summer! KS Presents is thrilled to present the Ontario-premiere of the Montreal sold-out hit production of Malunderstood at the Hamilton Fringe Festival. Written and performed by Kenny Streule, Malunderstood is directed by the Executive and Artistic Director of MainLine Theatre, Amy Blackmore.

A grandmother should spoil you from time to time, no? Well, not Kenny Streule's grandmother. Immerse yourself in a collection of memories that explain how Kenny was raised by a wild beaver. Using comedy, puppetry and movement, he examines his relationship with his Swiss German grandmother.

“Thanks to my trilingual upbringing, I am often Malunderstood, as I didn’t manage to learn how to articulate in any language very well. Neither English, nor French, nor Swiss German. That said, I did manage to learn many important life lessons from my evil grandmother, revealed throughout the show. Now it is time to launch this mini-tour in Hamilton for new audiences to discover my grandmother too.” - Kenny Streule, creator and performer of Malunderstood.

“Malunderstood is a fantastic one-man story, that’s almost like sitting with your best-friend through 45-minutes of therapy.” - Beth Mckenna, Curtainsup.tv

Presented by KS Presents

Written & Performed by Kenny Streule

Directed by Amy Blackmore

Stage Management by Sarah G. LaForce

Dramaturgy provided by Jesse Stong (Young Creators Unit, from Playwrights' Workshop Montréal)

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Thursday, July 20 at 7:30pm

Saturday, July 22 at 4:30pm* (*relaxed performance)

Sunday, July 23 at 5:00pm

Wednesday, July 26 at 7:30pm

ThursdayJuly 27 at 10:00pm

Saturday July 29 at 10:00pm

Sunday, July 30 at 3:00pm

Mills Hardware (95 King Street E, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 1A9)

Tickets: $12 (+ $5 Hamilton Fringe Festival Backer Button)

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Team Bios

From humble beginnings growing up on a Brome Lake dairy farm southeast of Montreal, Kenny always aspired to be an actor. His passion for creating has led him to establish his own theatre company which produced his first play since high school, City Boy, based on the life of his cousin living in the country. He performed in his first solo autobiographical show, Malunderstood at MainLine Theatre, where he works as Artistic Producer of MainLine and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. Selected performance credits include the Narrator in Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (MainLine Theatre), Lysander/Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Montreal Shakespeare Company) and Christopher Marlowe in Conspiracy! (Chocolate Moose Theatre Company). He is currently the VP of the Quebec Drama Federation (QDF) board of directors and is an active member of the Montreal performing arts community.

Written & Performed by
Kenny Streule

As the Executive and Artistic Director of MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival. A Montreal English Theatre Awards’ (META) nominated choreographer, Amy’s recent credits include direction for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (MainLine Theatre) and Malunderstood (KS Presents), and co-direction for Gratitude by Oren Safdie. She recently premiered an excerpt of her latest work-in-progress Is there anything else I can do for you? at Centaur Theatre. Inspired by the uncertainty of waiting for a thyroid cancer diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic, this was presented as a part of the inaugural Portico Project. A passionate advocate for the arts, Amy has spearheaded many initiatives such as Montreal's Fringe World Congress and the QDF Congress: Shaping the Future of English Theatre in Quebec. Amy sits on the Executive Committee of the Conseil québécois du théâtre and is the Past President of the Quebec Drama Federation.

Directed by
Amy Blackmore

Stage Management by
Sarah G. LaForce

Originally from Quebec City, Sarah G. LaForce is a cultural worker and theatre artist based in Montreal. Sarah completed her bachelor’s degree in Art History at Université du Québec à Montréal (2013). She is currently writing her master’s thesis at l’Université de Montréal on the impact of the Montreal Fringe.

For the past 10 years, Sarah has worked for many companies in the Montreal English Theatre community including Centaur Theatre, Geordie Theatre and the English Language Arts Network (ELAN). She is also a freelance publicist, which has led her to work with companies such as We All Fall Down, Andrea Peña and Artists and Jobel Art. She has been working for MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival in various capacities since 2014, where she is currently the Public Relations and Partnerships Director.

Sarah has co-created and directed the shows Is That How Clowns Have Sex? and Is That How Clowns Keep You Up All Night? and is currently working on a road trip show about anxiety. Sarah is passionate about supporting the work of emerging artists and believes in the power of a diversified community. Her favourite things are reading, making the occasional joke, and wearing all black.

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May 12, 2023

With Kenny Streule.
Photo Credit: Sean Colby — With Kenny Streule. Photo Credit: Sean Colby