Teesri Duniya Theatre Opens CORPUS Tonight

Teesri Duniya Theatre inaugurates its 2014­2015 Season with the Quebec premier of CORPUS Written by playwright Darrah Teitel and directed by Liz Valdez, it has a stellar cast: Holly Gauthier­Frankel, Melissa Paulson, Davide Chiazzese, Susan Bain, Ian Geldart, and Gilles Plouffe. Presented by the MAI (Montreal arts interculturells) as part of their sixteenth performing arts season. the play will run from tonight, November 13, t the ­20th, 2014.

CORPUS won Darrah Teitel The Calgary Peace Prize (2007), In The Beginning Jewish Playwrights contest (2009), and the Canadian Jewish Playwrights Competition (2010).

Megan is a brilliant Canadian genocide scholar who obsessively collects the stories of war crimes through the internet. She stumbles across an unlikely relationship between a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz and the wife of a Nazi officer. While investigating their dark and seductive history, Megan is spurred on her quest for academic fame by the unexpected charms of her online lover. CORPUS is a Holocaust story with a twist, one in which the third generation must confront the legacy of re­telling the personal stories.

The Holocaust, by any measure, is one of the most gruesome events of the 20th century. It illustrates the depths of degradation to which human being can sink when tribalism and greed are allowed to reign. It has seared into our consciousness the expression "Never Again." The Holocaust serves as a potent warning, in today's conflict-ridden world, that without constant vigilance, compassion and decency, human beings descend into brutality.

Q&A follows each Friday night performance. Post performance panel-discussions will take place each Sunday matinee. In class activities for schools, with artists from the production and Teesri Duniya Theatre will be available