Photo Flash: First Look at Tarragon Theare's SEXTET, Opening Tomorrow
Tarragon Theatre presents the world premiere of Sextet, written and directed by the prolific, award-winning Morris Panych, one of Canada's most celebrated playwrights and directors. Chock-full of Panych's trademark wit, this hilarious comic drama about six sexually entangled musicians on an ill-fated winter tour opens tomorrow, November 12 and runs to December 14 (previews from November 5) in Tarragon's Mainspace.
Six musicians find themselves stranded at their hotel in a snowstorm, with only their instruments and each other to keep them warm. Where will everyone sleep when everyone has slept with everyone else? Underscored by their struggles to come to terms with their failing careers, failing marriages and unfulfilled desires, the sextet tries to prepare for a show; weather permitting. How long can they keep their composure before a blizzard of sexual confusion buries them all? This well-orchestrated game of "musical rooms" is also an homage to the transcendent power of beautiful music.
Sextet features a stellar sextet on stage: Damien Atkins (2014 Dora Award for Outstanding Male Performance for Canadian Stage's London Road and nominated for same for Soulpepper's Angels in America Part II: Perestroika), Matthew Edison (Tarragon's An Enemy of the People, The Real World?; Canadian Stage's Proof - Dora nomination); Laura Condlln (The Crucible, The Norman Conquests for Soulpepper; Canadian Stage's THIS - Dora nomination; 11 seasons at the Stratford Festival); Canadian Comedy Award winner Rebecca Northan (Blind Date for World Stage, Harbourfront Centre which then toured to off-Broadway and London's West End; Canadian Stage's Seven Stories, Dream in High Park); Bruce Dow (Dora Award for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's PIG and Of A Monstrous Child; Helen Hayes nominee; Broadway and Stratford Festival veteran); and Jordan Pettle (Tarragon's Generous and Goodness; Soulpepper's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Ensemble Dora Award, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross; Outside the March/ Convergence/ Sheep No Wool's Passion Play - Ensemble Dora Award; Zadie's Shoes for Factory Theatre).
Tickets can be purchased through Patron Services at 416.531.1827 or by visiting www.tarragontheatre.com.
Photos by Cylla von Tiedemann
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Rebecca Northan, Bruce Dow
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Laura Condlin, Matthew Edison
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Laura Condlin, Jordan Pettle
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Laura Condlin, Damien Atkins
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Jordan Pettle, Matthew Edison, Damien Atkins, Laura Condlin, Rebecca Northan
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Bruce Dow, Rebecca Northan
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