Sex T-Rex’s unique and award-winning Crime After Crime (After Crime) returns to the stage for the first ever Barrie Theatre Festival, presented by Theatre By The Bay. The show will be presented August 7 to 12 as part of the Festival’s Canada-Wide Series.
The Toronto-based company is known for its physical comedy, and Crime After Crime (After Crime) presents the story of the Stone Family and their rise and fall in Crime City, USA. It’s part 1950s film noir, part heist movie circa 1972, with a little classic 90s buddy cop thrown into the mix.
Over generations of familial trauma, Sex T-Rex uses their signature cinematic comedic sense to reveal the family’s dark side. Audiences can expect stage combat, swing-dance car chases, and lots of stupid goofs.
The opening of “A Noir In Beige”: Part 1 of Sex T-Rex’s Crime After Crime (After Crime). Filmed at Toronto Sketchfest, 2018:
Sex T-Rex
Toronto based Sex T-Rex blend comedy with a cinematic and theatrical style, incorporating an off-beat physicality and parody into award-winning shows. The members, Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Seann Murray and Lowen Morrow, are based in an improv background, and bring that high energy performance style to their scripted shows.
They have toured through North America, collecting high praise for their productions, which include award winning shows at Atlantic Fringe in 2014 and 2016, Just For Laughs Best Comedy 2015 and Pick of Vancouver Fringe 2017, Second City Outstanding Comedy, 2016) and sold out runs at Toronto Fringe Festival.
Crime After Crime (After Crime) won the Just For Laughs Best Comedy award in 2018, and Best of Toronto Sketch Fest in 2019.
Most recently, the troupe took home the 2024 Dora Mavor Moore Award — Outstanding Ensemble.
Show Details
Created and performed by Conor Bradbury, Julian Frid, Lowen Morrow, and Seann Murray
Crime After Crime (After Crime) is on stage August 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 at 8:30 p.m., and it follows another show — Samantha Loney’s Daughter of the Country, an intimate one-woman show set in a Métis kitchen — at 7 p.m. at the Five Points Theatre (1 Dunlop Street W., Barrie).
- Find tickets and show details [HERE].
The Barrie Theatre Festival
The Barrie Theatre Festival launches is a fully professional 10-day event that showcases storytelling and stagecraft, with an emphasis on local and Canadian talent. More than 30 performances are built into three curated series to appeal to audiences of all ages.
“This is a cultural anchor event for our city,” says Doug Jure, Chair of the Board, on the Theatre by the Bay website. “It’s designed to attract audiences, inspire artists, and create economic ripple effects through tourism and local business.”
The three curated series include:
- The Canadian Series — Works by noted Canadian playwrights, including Dora and Toronto Fringe Festival Award-Winning shows.
- The Central Ontario Series — Stories from the region by emerging local creators, including underrepresented voices.
- The Young Audiences Series — Professionally produced performances that have been designed families and young people — each 45–60 minutes long — that revolve around positive themes such as imagination and belonging.
Find more information and tickets [HERE].
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