One of the most successful Canadian plays of the last decade, premiering at Factory in 2000 before transferring to Mirvish Productions, where it enjoyed a nearly sold‐out run. Zadie's Shoes
is a hilarious yet moving look at the nature of luck and the power of faith.
“a sure‐fire winner” Toronto Star
"The smart money is on this play" National Post "plunk your money down... you're guaranteed a winner" NOW Magazine
In this electrifying drama, a young soldier has been convicted of war crimes committed during a genocide. Just as he is about to be executed, a mysterious woman who is both his saviour and tormentor offers him freedom − at a price.
The Monument, by Canadian playwright Colleen Wagner, has been translated into several languages and has won the Governor General's Award for Drama. The play is a torpedo aimed directly at the nature of evil as it dissects the roles of victim and perpetrator in unflinching detail. Intimately staged with song and African drumming, this highly physical and imagistic production puts its finger on the pulse of humanity as it paints a contemporary portrait of a country whose resilient voice continues to be a beacon of hope and reconciliation. Performed in Kinyarwandan with English surtitles.
The Skin of Our Teeth follows the often funny and occasionally tragic circumstances of the Antrobus family who have learned to persevere, and even thrive through any number of natural and personal crises including war, flood, disease, and a plague of locusts.
It’s a play about hope, and about finding whatever it is that can pull you through, whatever you have that can give you the strength to keep going, to start again, to rebuild, to continue–even when it feels like the world is ending.
Funny and sad, charming, and touching, this classic Wilder play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1942. Directed by Rosemary Dunsmore.
Precisely what occurred on the last night in the lives of the Russian Imperial family remains forever shrouded in mystery, however, Howard Barker penned a
thrilling and imaginative interpretation of the last remaining hours of the Romanoff’s lives. In the wake of the Russian revolution the doomed Royal Family barter for survival as they are kept hostage by their enemies. The man in control, Dancer, the former tutor of the Royal children, appearing as both saint and sadist, has been personally invited by Lenin to oversee their execution. Dancer, however, has his own agenda. Barker’s thrilling and imaginative interpretation of the last remaining hours of the Romanoff’s lives. Directed by Todd Hammond.
The critically acclaimed Art of Time Ensemble brings to life the 1898 novel
The War of the Worlds as a staged radio drama to mark the centenary of Bernard Hermann’s birth, the Academy Award-winning composer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles among others. The performance includes a live orchestra, a foley artist and renowned actors (including Tom McCamus, David Ferry and Marc Bendavid) stepping behind the microphones as this timeless classic of theatrical persuasion and human paranoia is reborn for 21st century audiences. As a curtain raiser, a commissioned instrumental suite based on the original film score by local composer Dan Parr will set the mood for this dramatized radio broadcast of an alien invasion of Earth.
Yellow Face A white actor wearing a yellow face...
By David Henry Hwang Mar 4 - 12, 2011 2 Week Run Week 1 - Fri and Sat 8pm Week 2 - Wed to Sat 8pm + Sat 2pm
Yellow
Face is
a comic, head-spinning backstage comedy from the Tony Award-winning playwright
David Henry Hwang in which mistaken racial identities collide with family,
media and politics. This ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir
chronicles David Henry Hwang's struggle to define racial identity in the
mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America.
Part fact, part fiction - provocative yet full of heart;
Yellow Face is
a tale of cultural politics, family fortunes, and artistic integrity; an
insightful look at the pitfalls and promise of our "P.C." world.
A riveting story of Rekha, a young South Asian village woman who travels to Calcutta to take a job making “light bulbs” only to discover she has been sold into a brothel. There she grapples with destiny as she realizes that true liberty lives in the human heart.
Sponsored by TD Financial Group.
2009 Dora Mavor Moore Award Winner; RBC's Emerging Artist Award Winner
The French poet, author and filmmaker Jean Cocteau wrote
La Voix Humaine as a monologue in 1927. Ivo van Hove revolutionizes this stunning play, which centres around one last desperate phone call. The premise is both simple and agonizing: a young woman receives a call from the lover who has abandoned her. He’s set to marry another woman the following day. This is the last time they will speak to one another. A contemporary approach to a timeless situation, this tour-de-force by renowned Dutch director van Hove is both voyeuristic and heart-breaking. Expertly performed by one of The Netherland’s most celebrated stage actresses, Halina Reijn.
Amid a cornucopia of clutter on stage − newfangled props, costumes, maps, lamps, fishing rods, globes, slide projectors and more lo-fi technology −
Floating is a simple story of the Welsh island of Anglesey suddenly and miraculously coming adrift from the bridge that attaches it to the United Kingdom. Hugh Hughes and his collaborative partner Sioned Rowlands, desperate to escape and discover life outside their small island, colourfully reconstruct the island’s fanciful journey across the Atlantic and beyond. Warm hearted and whimsical, with performances that exude old-fashioned innocence, charm and personality in spades,
Floating has beguiled audiences and critics alike. This is comedy at its most relevant, poignant and triumphant. Join us for an unforgettable voyage.
Written in 1938 by renowned Polish author, playwright and philosopher, Witold Gombrowicz, the play centers on Prince Philip who is bored with his life and suffocated by convention. He is looking for a way to alleviate his ennui and vex his parents. He finds Ivona who is the most unattractive girl in the entire kingdom and proposes. Soon, the palace is bursting with gossip, intrigue and self-doubt.
Gombrowicz is thought by many to be the ‘grandfather’ of the Theatre of the Absurd and Princess Ivona, his first play, is also his most popular. Directed by Paul Lampert.
