Centaur Theatre Company Presents the 13th Annual WILDSIDE FESTIVAL, 1/5-17, 2010

For the 13th year Centaur Theatre Company presents the Annual Wildside Festival, a selection of cutting-edge plays that celebrate the spirit of independent theatre. This season the Wildside Festival will feature creations by some of Montreal's most amazing female artists as well as one show by an artist making waves in Toronto. From January 5th- 17th catch six plays in repertory, including the OFF THE MAIN winner (Centaur's Best of the Montreal Fringe award), My Pregnant Brother.

Freestanding Productions presents

MY PREGNANT BROTHER
Written and performed by Johanna Nutter
Directed and dramaturged by Jeremy Taylor
A co-production with Two Wheeler Productions

Tues. Jan 5 at 7PM
Fri. Jan 8 at 9PM
Sun. Jan 10 at 1PM
Thurs. Jan 14 at 7PM
Sun. Jan 17 at 7PM

On the day this show first saw the light, Thomas Beatie, "the World's First Pregnant Man", gave birth to his second child. The funny thing is, two years before anyone haever heard of Thomas Beatie, my brother became a pregnant man ... and the only one who knew was me. This is that story. Equal parts Le Petit Prince and Are You My Mother?, this intensely personal odyssey of family and self-identity guides us through the streets of Montreal, leads us from hope to heartache and back again, and invites us all to lie down on the kitchen floor for twenty-six hours to have a good think. My Pregnant Brother takes all of our illusive insecurities, all of our secret fears, and all of our reasons for giving up, and pours them out onto an empty stage where we can see them clearly. This is stand-up tragedy: one woman, an empty stage, an open heart, and an unimaginable journey.

Õdelah creations presents

TIES
A collective creation, directed by Arianna Bardesono
Starring: Christine Aubin Khalifah and Greg Gale

Wed. Jan 6 at 9PM
Sat. Jan 9 at 7PM
Tues. Jan 12 at 7PM
Fri. Jan 15 at 9PM
Sat. Jan 16 at 1PM

Poetic, fantastical and captivating, Ties carries you through the whirlwind of a young woman's memories as she retraces the life of her deceased father. Scored to original live music, this powerful imagistic portrayal of a woman's struggle to cope with loss will send you on a voyage into your own imagination. Ties takes you from the suburbs of Montréal to the mountains of Lebanon in an evening of theatre, music and beauty.

Apsara Theatre Company presents

SOMEONE BETWEEN
Written and performed by Chantria Tram
Directed by Milena Buziak

Wed. Jan 6 at 7PM
Sat. Jan 9 at 9PM
Wed. Jan 13 at 9PM
Sat. Jan 16 at 3PM
Sun. Jan 17 at 1PM

Having escaped her birthplace of Cambodia, and finding amnesty in a Thai refugee camp for three years, Chantria and her family are plunged into the
Canadian mosaic. As a young first-generation Khmer-Canadian, she tries to find her place between two very different cultures: old and new, family and the individual, Cambodia and Canada.

Dance Animal presents
DANCE ANIMAL PRESENTS: DANCE ANIMAL
Directed and choreographed by Robin Henderson
Starring: Joseph Bembridge, Stephanie Breton, Sarah Hansen, Robin Henderson, Dan Jeannotte, Vanessa Kneale, Steph McKenna, Nico Racicot, Marc Rowland, Anders Yates

Tues. Jan 5 at 9PM
Fri. Jan 8 at 7PM
Sun. Jan 10 at 3PM
Fri. Jan 15 at 7PM
Sat. Jan 16 at 9PM

Fringe box-office record breaker and winner of the 2009 Just For Laughs "Best of Montreal" comedy prize, DANCE ANIMAL has been declared Montreal's first "comedy supergroup" (Brett Hooton - The Hour). The hotstepping brain-child of creator/director/choreographer/dancer Robin Henderson, DANCE ANIMAL, is a superhuman tribe of ten dynamic Montrealers with a singular dance mission: to fight stagnation and boredom with positivity and to spread sexy-electric-joy- energy across the planet. Anchored in the bilingual spectrum of city life in Montreal, Dance Animal Presents: Dance Animal is a cheeky pirouette through the world of dance and character monologues. It mixes the high camp of musical theatre with the ridiculous self-importance of contemporary dance; the giddy energy of a dance party with the playful spirit of a sketch comedy revue. Bubbly, sexy and light, Dance Animal Presents: Dance Animal is the perfect way to sizzle your way through winter.

jsquared.theatre presents

DUST
Written and Directed by Jason Maghanoy
Starring: Brandon Coffey and Jessica Moss

Thurs. Jan 7 at 7PM
Sat. Jan 9 at 3PM
Thurs. Jan 14 at 9PM
Sat. Jan 16 at 7PM
Sun. Jan 17 at 3PM

Abu Ghraib Prison. Jenny works in the office. Jonathan is a prison guard. They meet. They fall in love. Written and directed by National Theatre School of Canada graduate Jason Maghanoy, and featuring two of the most outstanding young actors in the city of Toronto, dust is a chilling, and ultimately moving examination of torture, decency, and the limit of hope.

Rabbit In A Hat Productions presents

PENUMBRA
By Katharine Dempsey
Directed by Paul Van Dyck
Starring Catherine Bérubé, Michelle Boback, Christopher Moore, and Howard Rosenstein

Thurs. Jan 7 at 9PM
Sat. Jan 9 at 1PM
Sun. Jan 10 at 7PM
Tues. Jan 12 at 9PM
Wed. Jan 13 at 7PM

In an age of technological development and dependency, the individual has been afforded an unprecedented variety of communicative means. penumbra examines classical themes of love, lust and betrayal in a modern context, positing that technology has not only perverted the integrity of the modern relationship structure, but damaged the genuine connection felt between two people in love.

5 show superpass: $50 Regular, $40 for subscribers, students, under 30, and seniors. Single show tickets: $12.50 Regular, $10 for subscribers, students, under 30, and seniors. For tickets, visit www.centaurtheatre.com or call (514) 288-3161.

From the classics to the contemporary, Centaur Theatre Company produces theatre for our times - theatre that reflects the pulsating, ever-changing world around us and theatre that celebrates the vibrant voice of today's Montreal.

In just the past few years, Centaur Theatre Company has led the way in producing and presenting 13 World Premieres of Montreal playwrights; has been recognized as a major player in Canadian theatre through its international collaboration initiatives with Ireland, the United States and Australia, and has received numerous Major Awards for outstanding direction, production, acting, artistic direction, and development of new theatrical talent.

Centaur Theatre Company continues to lead the way in theatrical outreach initiatives in the Montreal community. Founders of the Community Fundraising Play now in vogue in theatres throughout Montreal, Centaur is also the creator and presenter of the popular Saturday Morning Children's Series for the young and the "young-at-heart", Brave New Works, which provides audiences an opportunity to celebrate the diversity, imagination and highly original work of cutting-edge companies and individual "auteurs", The Wildside Festival, Montreal's first, Second-Stage program that showcases five independent theatre companies in its annual repertory festival, including Centaur's selection of the best English-language production of the Montreal Fringe Festival, and the Theatre Of Tomorrow program, which annually makes Centaur Theatre Company the English Theatre of Choice for schools, with over 6,500 young people from high schools.