2020 Next Stage Festival - Tita Jokes

“Tita Jokes creates winning material by both breaking down and playing up cultural stereotypes about Filipinx women. NNNN”

-NOW Magazine

“Part Spice Girls-inspired concert, part sketch comedy and all love letter to Titas.

The energetic, multi-talented ensemble takes us on and entertaining, often moving, ride as they weave song and dance with sketch comedy bits.”

-Life with More Cowbell

“Well, rumours of the show’s greatness are no exaggeration. Tita Jokes is a unique and unforgettable musical comedy smash.

Brilliantly combining sketch comedy with music and dance to convey the different ways that titas show their love and affection, Tita Jokes also depicts how they support one another to move past disappointments, struggles and heartaches.

The 6-member collective is uniformly strong, and Tita Jokes is fast-paced, warmhearted, and expertly executed, with razor-sharp timing.”

-SesayArts Magazine

2019 Toronto Fringe Festival - Tita Jokes

Winner of the Toronto Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick - Tarragon Theatre Mainspace & The Second City Comedy Award

“This comedy troupe — consisting of Ann Paula Bautista, Belinda Corpuz, Isabel Kanaan, Ellie Posadas, Alia Rasul and Maricris Rivera — has become a reliable, popular presence on Toronto’s sketch comedy scene over the last year or two, thanks to their ability to blend their individual talents (from producing to stage managing to live music to writing) and mine the intergenerational Filipino diaspora to maximum comedic effect.”

-The Toronto Star

“You don’t need to be Filipinx to get all the jokes in this hilarious musical sketch comedy, but the way members of Tita Collective embody their titas – an endearment for “aunt” in Tagalog – through song, dance, humor and storytelling, you might wish you were. NNNN”

-NOW Magazine

“Spice up your life with the Spice Girls of Comedy with a Filipina twist… The Tita Collective is hilarious and irresistible.”

-Mooney on Theatre

“But even those completely unfamiliar with anything Pinoy will appreciate the lolz, after all: that’s what the Tita Collective is there to show you!

The Tita Collective both lampoons and celebrates Filipino culture and offers a refreshing alternative to the abundant white, male energy that dominates the comedy scene. With shout outs to queer and trans identities, Tita Jokes provides laughs, challenges your expectations, and will likely leave you feeling both appreciative and appreciated.”

-Istvan Dugalin (Istvan Reviews)

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"At the tight, inspired, joyous and flat-out hysterical Tita Collective, who kicked hard at the darkness with their loving, high-energy sendup of their own Filipino culture. I swear Tita Avengers is superior to Avengers: Endgame. Really! None of what they did mattered for its content, but audiences laughed louder and longer at this show than at any other we attended at the festival."

(March 20, 2020)

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(March 7, 2020)

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(July 2019)

CBC

Exhibitionists

“Life is better when you've got a tita. This Filipina troupe celebrates the older women in our lives”

(Dec 10, 2019)

CBC Here and Now

Girls of theatre' with a Filipino twist take on taboo subjects

(June 27, 2019)

Our Toronto

“We’re like the spice girls of theatre, with a Filipino twist.

Comedy is a really accessible way to explore these stories. And we're hoping that it will sort of kind of start conversations behind closed doors”

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(March 23, 2019)

AM640

Tita Collective celebrate Filipinas in the diaspora

(July 6, 2019)

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(July 3, 2019)

Philippine Canadian Inquirer

Tita Collective: Not Your Ordinary Type of Titas

“These artists found connection the moment they knew that they all craved the same thing: the ability to produce a craft that will represent who they are, their community, and the culture they grew up in. That’s why without having any second thoughts, they presented themselves on the theatrical stage as Tita Collective, satisfying their thirst for women of color representation, stories, and advocacy.”

(June 20, 2019)

Cold Tea Collective

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“Tita Collective is offering not only a voice to Toronto’s young Filipinx population, but also a chance to see themselves represented on stage and to see that the arts have space for people who look like them, and people who share their stories. Their ongoing work and upcoming projects work towards sharing their stories, our stories, and stories that many femmes of colour can see themselves reflected in.”

(March 8, 2019)

She Does the City

Tita Collective: Telling the (Funny) Story of the Filipinx Diaspora

“They can expect to be transported into a different world. For half an hour, [the audience] will view society from our lenses. They will see our struggles and heartaches, but also how we cope with them through comedy and songs, and how we all lift each other’s spirits up as a community – as a collective.”

(February 19, 2019)