Two exciting new initaitives from CanStage

By: Oct. 31, 2006
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RAW! RAW! RAW!
RAW TALENT. RAW MATERIAL.
RAW EXPLORATION OF NEW WORK.
COME COOK WITH US.
A Series of Play Readings
December 2006BASH! 

RAW! RAW! RAW! is our Play Development Department's spanky new initiative featuring raw talent, raw first drafts, and raw exploration of new work. Taking place the first three weekends of December, it features the exciting new work of playwrights from Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal and Stratford. This series of play readings is open to the public and admission is pay-what-you-can. To reserve tickets call the Box Office 416-368-3110. All presentations begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Upstairs Theatre at

26 Berkeley Street:

Savage Brown
Written by Jane Edmonds
Directed by Gina Wilkinson
Cast includes Shaun Smyth as Savage Brown; Mike Shara, Paul Fauteaux, Richard Harte, Darren Hynes, Martin Julien, Billy MacLellan, Toby Malone, Robert Persichini, Julien Ritchings, Tara Rosling, Robin Schisler and Michael Spencer-Davis.
          In his youth, Michael Brown was a notorious IRA bomb-maker - until he was caught.  After twelve years of forced exile in England, he returns home to Northern Ireland-but why?  What is he really doing there?  And will he still live up to his nickname "Savage," or has he truly changed?  

 

Black Mothers Don't Say I Love You

Written by trey anthony

Facilitated by Iris Turcott

Cast includes Ngozi Paul and Ordena Stephens

          The funny but fierce examination of one mother's unexpected love for her daughters.  Black Mothers Don't Say I Love You examines a family dynamic where love and forgiveness are hard won in the face of death. 

Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Waxworks
Written by Trina Davies

Directed by Ron Jenkins
          1789. The edge of the French Revolution and a young Madame Tussaud (Marie Grosholz) is recalled from her post at the Palace of Versailles back to Dr. Curtius' Wax Salon in the heart of Paris. Reunited with her mother and her mentor, she is introduced to the most influential persons in Paris, including Maximilien Robespierre, who takes a particular interest in her art. As the revolution descends into shadow, Marie is forced to confront the remains of those she has befriended - whose waxen images must be set with signs that identify them as 'patriots' or 'enemies.' A dark vaudeville, Waxworks is an exploration of the tales we are told, the heroes and villains we create -- and the life of an extraordinary artist who developed the first world-wide brand in entertainment history.

 

Friday, Dec. 15 & Saturday, Dec. 16 at 7:00 p.m.

Scratch

Written by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman

Directed by ahdri zhina mandiela.

Cast includes Brenda Bazinet, John Blackwood, Paul Fauteaux, Amanda Leblanc and Gina Wilkinson.
          A teenage girl weaves her way between two very real and opposing worlds - a longed-for first kiss and her mother's silent fatal disease.  Using wickedly dark humour Corbeil-Coleman's heroine manifests her grief with a nasty case of head lice. Scratch is as bold and brave as it is real and tender.  A tremendous first draft from our youngest playwright (currently a student at the NationalTheatreSchool).

 

CanStage's Artist Development Program

 

BASH:  

1.     to have an impact

2.     a vigorous collision of ideas or objects

3.     to produce rapidly

4.     an uproarious party

5.     to have a BASH at: to attempt to do something you have not tried before

 

BASH! is CanStage's unique new artist development program. Over the course of this season, 14 emerging, indie and professional artists will explore the world of creating contemporary theatre for larger stages. With bi-weekly development sessions and workshops with members of the CanStage artistic, production and administrative teams, participants will be immersed in the complexities of producing for larger stages and creating, sustaining and engaging an audience base in Toronto. Sessions examine each of the productions in the CanStage season in context, including meeting the artists responsible for the creation and learning about funding strategies for creating work on this scale.

 

Finally, our BASH! artists will host eight supplementary events, one connected to and inspired by each show of the CanStage season, which will incorporate what has been learned through this process. Tickets to these events, which are open to the public, are only $20 and include both the BASH! event and a performance of the show. Events are one hour long and start at 6:30 p.m. - locations TBA.

 

BASH! EVENTS 2006.2007

 

Of Mice and Men

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

 

The Story of My Life

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

 

Glorious!

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

 

Half Life

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

 

What Lies Before Us

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

 

The Overcoat

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

 


Lucy
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

 

The Rocky Horror Show

Friday, March 23, 2007, time TBA

 

BASH! Artist Development Program 2006.2007 Participants

 

Anna Chatterton is a performer, playwright and librettist.

 

Chris Dupuis is an interdisciplinary artist who works with performance, text and video. His work has been shown across Canada, the United States and Europe.

 

Brendan Healy is a director based in Toronto.

 

Njo Kong Kie is a pianist, music director and composer interested in all sorts of performing arts.  www.musicpicnic.com

 

rahim ladha is a contemporary dancer/writer living and working in Toronto. He is working on several dance films over the next several months, and set to release his first novella in the spring of 2007.

 

Scott Lale has been a theatre professional for over 20 years; he has a myriad of training and experience, including being a fellow of Shakespeare's Globe. Scott is currently the artistic director and executive producer for the Corporation of the City of Brampton's A.C.T. Productions. 

 

Mitchell Marcus is the founder and artistic producer of Acting Up Stage Theatre Company, the producer of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a freelance arts administrator in Toronto.

 

Katherine Sanders is a performer, writer and producer from Calgary. Now living in Toronto, she has toured the Canadian Fringe circuit several times, produced a theatre festival in Calgary called Solocentric, and recently co-wrote and co-starred in the Fringe hit Jesus Christ: The Lost Years.

 

Erin Shields is a playwright and performer working in poetic storytelling, inter-disciplinary adaptation, collective creation and theatre. Erin's ongoing creations include The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski (Fringe holdover at the Diesel Playhouse), The Paradise Project (a multi-disciplinary retelling of Paradise Lost) and Goblin Market (Groundwater Productions).

 

Rebecca Singh is an actor and indie theatre artist recently moved from la belle province where she invented "Cheer Theatre" with the Montreal All-Star Cheerleaders.

 

Kwame Stephens is a Toronto-based writer who has had his works - both fiction and non-fiction - published/performed in Canada and English-speaking Africa over the past 20 years.

 

Lindsay C. Walker is a set and costume designer originally from Vancouver B.C., currently living in Toronto.

 

Norman Lup-Man Yeung works in theatre, film and visual arts. His current obsession is integrating the three disciplines.

 

Jacob Zimmer is a dramaturge for dance, writer, occasional performer and artistic director of Small Wooden Shoe.

 


 

For more information about RAW! RAW! RAW! please call 416-367-8243 and ask for:

 

Bonnie Green, ext. 222  
Associate Producer - Play Development
bgreen@canstage.com

Katherine Grainger, ext. 282
Casting Intern
kgrainger@canstage.com
 

 

For more information about the BASH! Artist Development Program please contact:

Natasha Mytnowych, 416-367-8243, ext. 277
Company Manager & Executive Assistant to the Artistic Producer
nmytnowych@canstage.com


For further media information and artist interviews please call 416-367-8243 and ask for:

Valorie Block, ext. 259  
Publicity & Communications Manager 
vblock@canstage.com

Rosie Shaw, ext. 250
Publications Editor & Publicist
rshaw@canstage.com

Saturday, Dec. 2 at 7:00 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 1 at 7:00 p.m.



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