Runs: August 17 - 28, 2005 Tuesday – Sunday at 8PM (no 8PM show on Aug 28)
Saturday & Sunday Matinee at 2PM
Ticket prices:
Adult: $23
Student: $18
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For reservations, call the Theatre Centre Box Office line: 416-538-0988.
Written and Directed by: Michael Reinhart
Set and Costume Design by: Laura-Rose McPhee
Lighting Design by: Patrick Lavender
Original Music by: Raha Javanfar
Leaving Song follows the lives of Tommy and Celia, from
their initial celebration of a fledgling co-habitation, to the bitter
fallout of a relationshiop gone awry. Having chosen her ambitions over
her relationship, Celia is gone, leaving Tommy to mind her things until
she can house them somewhere else. With the apartment slowly emptying
and any hope of reconciliation dwindling, Tommy is murdered. Shot down
by a mysterious and well publicized serial killer, Tommy's final
moments are captured on a random security camera and displayed across
primetime television. Whether due to media saturation or a lack of any
other interesting news, Tommy is thrust into the public eye and
immediately becomes an icon. In his wake, he leaves Celia and his
friends, Daniel and Janet, (now celebrities by association), an
obsessed fan base and a new sitcom portraying the group under the
hypothectical pretense of "had Tommy not been killed, would he and
Celia have reconciled?"
How do the survivors move on with their lives when they are trapped by a public perception they cannot escape?
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Thursday June 16, 2005 @ 10pm
in the Rehearsal Hall
Ticket price:
Pay-What-You-Can
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Eugene Slonimerov’s project Music and Dance for 5 voices and 2
pedestrians, as performed by the band Fox the Boombox and 2 pedestrians
Cathy Gordon and Mark Rainey.
The show will manifest an outcome of 3 intense days of work on
developing a precious language shared by vocalists and dancers. It is
also a very personal exercise to help Eugene Slonimerov rediscover what
theatre means to him.
Eugene Slonimerov graduated from Ryerson Theatre in 2002, in his last
year having put himself through a self designed programme which made
him think he was a theatre director. He staged a hugely successful
(with the Ryerson academia) new work in his room, 6’x14’ in dimension,
with 2 performers and 14 audience members. It was based on themology,
stylistics and character development in Samuel Beckett’s prose and
research on the idea of holy theatre. He then went to Republic of
Georgia to apprentice with the Tbilisi Municipal Theatre Studio as a
puppeteer and assistant director. Since his return that same year, he
participated in 2 Rhubarb festivals and staged a show in his kitchen.
Eugene has not produced theatre in all seriousness for almost 3 years.
He is now a recording artist on Block Recording Club label in Toronto,
with his band Lenin i Shumov and other on-going music projects.
Fox the Boombox is a Toronto band,
comprised of young women whose upcoming album is in a purgatory of
independence while the girls are in a constant state of bliss. The
members of Fox the Boombox will be dictating the dance moves with their
voices, using a language which will be developed over 3 days in
calloboration with the rest of the group.
Mark Rainey is an actor, dancer, man of
the earth. He has also been Eugene’s theatre collaborator since 2001,
and performed in 2 such collaborations, namely This in a 14’x6’ room above a pawn shop at Church and Dundas, and This, Forward at the Rhubarb festival in 2003.
Cathy Gordon is a person about town, who’s performance arts career defies words.
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Bringing together playwrights and dramaturgs with
other members of the Canadian theatre community, this annual conference
features two full days devoted to the art of dramaturgy.
Guest speakers will discuss specific projects
by addressing in detail the process they used to develop the play. We
also welcome artists from across Canada and beyond, featuring reports
on activities in other major theatre centres.
Conference Speakers Include: Vanessa Porteous(Calgary) discusses her collaboration with Calgary's Old Trout Puppet Workshop on Pinocchio, recently seen at the Magnetic North Festival.
Jennifer Tarver on directing five short Beckett plays at the Theatre Centre last fall.
Judith Thompson on her bold adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
From Acting to Writing:Lisa Codrington and Keira Loughren on the premieres of their works Cast Iron and Little Dragon, and on their work as actors and writers.
More speakers to be confirmed shortly!
The conference is organized and moderated by Brian Quirt.
The Mini-Conference on Dramaturgy is generously supported by the Toronto Arts Council.
The Playwrights Guild of Canada, Playwrights Canada Press and Canadian
Stage Company have also made substantial contributions to the
conference.
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$5 from every full price ticket sold for the 2:30pm matinee on Saturday,
June 11th goes to Breast Cancer Research!
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For reservations, call the Theatre Centre Box Office line: 416-538-0988.
To Purchase Tickets online, go to:
Trapped in Taffeta After successful
stagings in Halifax and Edmonton, and being featured on BRAVO's The
Singular Series, "Trapped in Taffeta" comes home to Toronto for a much
anticipated two week run.
Martha Newbert is at her 17th wedding, as a bridesmaid, where she has just
missed the bouquet for the 17th time. She is preparing to make her 17th
toast to the bride and dreading the moment the DJ will play “YMCA” for the
17th time. She sees the seemingly happy world around her, but isn’t truly
happy herself. Images of the people who have made her bridesmaid duties a
heaven and more importantly, a hell, race through her mind as she steps up
to take the microphone and with a little provocation from a cocky MC,
Martha decides to tell this crowd, once and for all, what being a
bridesmaid is really all about.
Written & Performed by: Leslie Seiler
Directed by: Richard Beaune
Stage Managed by: Jennifer Trinier
Set Design by: Kimberly Beaune
Lighting Design by: Ed Rosing
Sound Design by: Stuart Greer
Set Decoration by: Micki's Linen & Special Event Draping
ATTENTAT #9 consists of a Sport
Utility Vehicle still fuming after having exploded, to which has been
integrated an audio-visual manifesto. It is a hyper-realistic scene
depicting a terrorist attack incriminating—all at once— the automobile
industry, consumers and governments. A destabilizing and unequivocal
experience whose graphic violence will heighten the public’s awareness
of the perverse effects of the veneration of these gas-guzzling,
power-hungry vehicles.
ATSA will be at the scene of the crime 24 hours a day. You are invited
to come meet us and to discuss, film and photograph the exhibit.
Many products stemming from the intervention will be available on the spot: a DVD of the manifesto, miniature replicas of ATTENTAT, stickers, and so on.
L’Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable, or ATSA, founded by artists Annie Roy and Pierre Allard, has been creating “urban interventions” which question society and its values since ’97. ATSA
events rattle the urban landscape and open it up to societal debates.
Its very name is an aberration and is intended as a reflection of the
themes motivating the pair’s creations.
Opens: May 12; Runs: May 13 - 29, 2005 Tuesday – Saturday @ 8pm
Sunday Matinee @ 2:30pm
Special Student Matinee: Friday May 13 @1pm
Ticket prices:
Tues & Thurs: $15/$12(stu/sen/equity) Wed @ 8pm & Sun Matinee: Pay-What-You-Can Fri & Sat: $18/$15(stu/sen/equity)
Student Group Bookings for May 13 @ 1pm, Contact Nadine @ 416.964.1257
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For reservations, call the Theatre Centre Box Office line: 416-538-0988.
To Purchase Tickets online, go to:
The Romance of Magno Rubio tells the
hard luck tale of Magno, a Filipino migrant worker who labours in the
farms of California during the 1930s, and dares to dream of a future
with a white American woman, Clarabelle. Undeterred by legal and social
prohibitions, the diminutive Magno Rubio naively pursues a
long-distance courtship. Through clever word play, rhymes, hip hop
rhythms, movement and song, Lonnie Carter's adaptation of The Romance of Magno Rubio reveals the lives of migrant workers, their sturggles and dreams, and their longings for home and a better life.
The New York Times:"A thoroughly winning ensemble! One of the best shows of the Off-Broadway season."
CurtainUp (Chicago):"The production charms adn challenges its audience."
Theater Mania (New York):"One of the best plays of the New York Theater Season, On or Off Broadway!"
Philippine Star:"...the play sparkles and bristles, it grips the audience from start to finish."
Previews: Thurs.April 21st
Runs: April 22 - May 8, 2005 Wednesday –Saturday at 8PM
Sunday Matinee at 3PM
Ticket prices:
Wednesday to Saturday, $15 Sunday Matinee: Pay-What-You-Can
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For reservations, call the Theatre Centre Box Office line: 416-538-0988.
Created and performed by: Tannis Kowalchuk and Ker Wells
Created and directed by Raymond Bobgan
LIghting Design by Trad A Burns and Steven Mack
Costumes by the team and Holly Holsinger
Publicity by Julie Penner
Toronto Run produced by Number Eleven Theatre
Join Kowalchuk and Wells as the infamous
husband and wife puppet duo, Punch and Judy (in the flesh) in an
all-night argument that jump-cuts between real quarrels and spats, song
and dance, and comic-violence -- a wild waltz through the minefields of
intimacy and long term relationships.
The New York Times:"...a rigorously performed experimental update of a Punch and Judy show with a surplus of energy..."
NyTheatre.com:"(A) theatreical, absurdist, dance-like, puppet-utilizing, beautiful
study of couplehood.. Wells and Kowalchuk are master craftsmen of
movement art... fast-paced and starkly profound."
Show Business Weekly (NY):"A deliciously whimsical, highly physical performance... The
excitement of this production, which can be captured only on the stage,
is the intensity, veracity and immediacy with which the couple respond
to each other."
The Free Times of Cleveland:"...a frothy version of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf," Kowalchuk and Wells easily convey the character shifting,
conflicting emotions, and construct a relationship of believable depth,
executing the stylized "puppet" sections with agility and grace."
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For reservations, call the Theatre Centre Box Office line: 416-538-0988.
Lesson learned: Beavers do not have thumbs.
Or maybe they do, we're still unclear on that.
One thing we do know for sure:
You only mistake dynamite for tampons once.
Featuring OLIVER DENNIS as Earl Larch, freshly retired and tracking mice MARGOT DIONNE as Ellie Larch, biding her time and sneaking smokes MICHAEL SIMPSON as Joel Brenne, hooking his fingers and protecting the beach
and introducing JODY HEWSTON as Peter Larch, writing his memoirs and protecting his nails
and TRICIA LAHDE as Leah Larch, keeping her secrets uncovering other peoples
Written and directed by ALISON McELWAIN
Media contact:
WAYNE SUJO, Publicist
416-948-8162
waynesujo@hotmail.com
Dorothy Said Theatre! is grateful for the support of:
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March 9 – 27, 2005 Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:30pm
Ticket prices:
Previews: $15.00 Evening Performances: $20.00 - $25.00 Sunday Matinee: Pay-What-You-Can Group rates are also available.
Location:
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
For tickets visit the Bell Arts Box Office at Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave.), on-line at www.artsboxoffice.ca
or call 416-504-PLAY (7529).
Modern Times Stage Company is thrilled to celebrate its 15th anniversary
season with its critically acclaimed production of Macbeth. Adapted by Artistic director Soheil Parsa and Associate Artistic Director Peter Farbridge,
Modern Times’ original production of Macbeth premiered in 1995 and was
hailed by critics as “one of the most inventively staged Shakespearean
productions I have ever seen” (Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail) and
“One of the Top Ten shows of 1995” (NOW magazine). Macbeth played to
ecstatic and packed houses in Toronto (1995), Montreal (1997) and most
recently the 21st Fadjr International Theatre Festival in Iran (2003).
Modern Times’ Macbeth was inspired by a centuries-old tradition of
Persian ritualistic theatre called Ta’ziyeh Khani (Persian Passion
Play). Emphasizing the visual, movement and choreography, and music
(ranging from traditional to hard rock), while supporting Shakespeare’s
storytelling traditions; Modern Times’ production sets the stage for a
remarkable meeting of two rich literary and dramatic forms.
Modern Times creative team: director/choreographer Soheil Parsa, lighting and installation by Droege Designs, costume designer Andjelija Djuric and sound designer Ian Lefeuvre collaborate to bring together an unconventional, athletic, ritualistic stark, and emotionally charged production. Peter Farbridge returns to play the title role of Macbeth with Stavroula Logothettis as Lady Macbeth. Juana Awad, Karim Morgan, Brendan Murray, Alon Nashman, Soheil Parsa, Yashoda Ranganathan and Lyon Smith round out this superb cast. The Stage Manager is Elaine Lumley, and Producer is Laurel Smith.
Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (south, east corner of Dovercourt and Queen)
Box Office:
416-538-0988
Come to Avant-Vardeville on March 21st at The Theatre
Centre, and pay what you can for an abundance of wonder-provoking
performances: the dazzling anatomy of Nina Arsenault; the rebel burlesque of Skin Tight Outta Sight; a delicious hors-d’oeuvre from Sam & Ella Toad; a murderous fantasy by Guillermo Verdecchia; the astounding marvel of Mysterion the Mind Reader; the mad monkey business of Caroline Azar; a startling spectacle from The Polecats; the delightfully mordant wit of Cathy Gordon; and legendary vaudevillian Johnny Toronto. MC Daniel Brooks hosts with intoxicating charisma.
You will also be served some piping hot antics from Gravy Boy, featuring their associates Rae
Ellen Bodie, Veronika Hurnik, Jess Dobkin, Paul Bettis, Joseph
Alexander Kay, Sean Baek, Sandi Becker, Monique Blackman, Alex Courey,
Adam Lawrence, Shane MacKinnon, Tania McCartney, Andrea Ramolo and Craig Stanghetta.
Avant-Vardeville is a celebration of cheerful frivolity, and
an enemy to responsibility, worry and reason. It exacts no intellectual
activity upon the audience; instead they can satisfy their longing for
laughter, for melody, for colour and action. This effervescent evening
offers burlesque dancers, mind reading, knockabout scenes,
monologuists, unicycles, juggling, musical numbers, comic sketches, mad
improvisations, and even more indescribable wonders.
This Theatre Centre BANG is programmed by Richard Feren and Stephen
Seabrook, the perpetrators of Gravy Boy. Festivities begin at 8pm, and
latecomers will definitely be admitted. Dress for laughter.
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"That Time" five short plays by beckett Directed by:
Jennifer Tarver
Performed by:
Paul Fauteux
Barbara Gordon
David Jansen
These 5 rarely seen Beckett shorts - containing the seeds of his most
radical ideas - create a playful and thought provoking dialogue in form
and expression.
"BéBé" the women behind brecht Conceived, Directed + Co-written by:
Jennifer Capraru, Theatre Asylum
Original Composition and Music Direction by:
Cathy Nosaty
Through cabaret, song, and drag, the brilliant women behind the
greatest hits of the 20th century drama leap out of the shadows and
into the spotlight.
