CanStage announce a new play by Ronnie Burkett

By: Jan. 12, 2006
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Ronnie Burkett is one of the world's geniuses…seeing his troupe every few years has become a necessity of

civilized theatergoing."

 The Village Voice

 

WORLD PREMIERE

 

CanStage presents
Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes
in

 

10 DAYS ON EARTH

 

Created and Performed by Ronnie Burkett

Music and Sound Design by Cathy Nosaty

Lighting Design by Bill Williams


 

Toronto, ON… "If you were alone, but didn't know it, would you feel lonely?" A mentally challenged adult lives with his mother who has died in her bed. For the next 10 days, he innocently carries on in the simple world he knows. A tender, funny and unapologetic story that celebrates a mother's love for her son in all its honesty and fierce, unwavering will.

 

Internationally-acclaimed for his adult puppetry, Ronnie Burkett (CanStage's Tinka's New Dress, Street of Blood, Happy and Provenance) returns to CanStage with music and sound designer, Cathy Nosaty (CanStage's Tinka's New Dress, Street of Blood, Happy, Provenance, My Mother's Feet and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?) and lighting designer Bill Williams with a play that is tender and heart-breakingly beautiful. Burkett, a Canadian treasure, once again creates an elaborate world of marionettes to tell his story with wit and sentiment. Bawdy and wry, Burkett's work plumbs the highs and lows of the human experience.

 

Mr. Burkett has won two Dora Awards, seven Sterling Awards, six Betty Awards, two Chalmers Canadian Play Awards, a GLAAD Media Award and a Special Obie Citation from New York's Village Voice.

 

10 Days on Earth was co-commissioned by The Canadian Stage Company.

 

The original production of 10 Days on Earth was co-commissioned by:

 

The original production of 10 DAYS ON EARTH was co-commissioned by: CanStage (Toronto, Canada), queerupnorth (Manchester, UK), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), and BITE:07, Barbican (London UK).

 

Note: 10 Days on Earth is a theatrical piece intended and created solely for a mature audience. Children under 14 will not be admitted.

 


 

 


 

 

Details

 

PREVIEWS: April 1 - 6, 2006

 

OPENS: April 7, 2006 and runs until June 24, 2006

 

SCHEDULE: Monday-Saturday 8:00 p.m., Wednesday matinee 1:30 p.m., Saturday matinee 2:00 p.m.

 

TICKETS: $36 - $51

 

LOCATION: CanStage – Berkeley, 26 Berkeley St.

 

BOX OFFICE: Tickets* are available in person at the CanStage Customer Service Centres, 26 Berkeley St. or

 27 Front St. E., by telephone at CanStage 416-368-3110 and Ticketmaster at 416-872-1111, and online at www.canstage.com.

 

Rush Seats are available for any performance one hour prior to show time. Rush Seats are half the regular ticket price. For Monday-night performances only, pay-what-you-can tickets are available in person at the CanStage Box Office beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the performance.

 

*Single tickets for 10 Days on Earth are now on sale.

Subscription seats available now.

 

Special Group Rates Available. Call for details. For more information please contact us at groups@canstage.com.

 

 

Other activities to enhance your theatre going experience:

CanStage Tea Talks and Talk Backs – These informal post-performance question and answer periods give you an opportunity to meet the artists immediately following a production. Call Patty Jarvis at ext. 245 for details.

 

 



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