Co-Production 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS Comes to The Theatre Center

Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Electric Company Theatre, and The Theatre Centre are very pleased to be co-producing 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, a new work created and performed by Daniel Brooks and Kim Collier with consulting director Jennifer Tarver for Necessary Angel.

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS was initially developed through The Theatre Centre's Tracy Wright Global Archive, and further workshopped by Necessary Angel Theatre Company and Electric Company Theatre. Created to honour the inimitable theatre artist Tracy Wright, an original collaborator of Daniel Brooks, The Theatre Centre's Tracy Wright Global Archive challenges artists to explore a burning question and contemplate a new direction in their work by engaging deeply with communities and locations across the globe.

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS is being co-produced in part to mark the 40th anniversary season of the innovative and experimental theatre company Necessary Angel.

Sanskrit has 96 words for love. English has one.

Armed with the magical poetry of Persian poet Hafez, the musings of French philosopher Alain Badiou, and the ancient Indian tales of Ramayana, two lovers on a spiritual quest in India challenge themselves to live for 40 days and 40 nights making all choices based in Love. Mysterious, symbolic, and intimate, the couple is transformed through ceremony, tenderness, wisdom, and the sheer force of love itself.

A sensorial, ritualistic, celebration for the performers and the audience, 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS is an investigation of the nature of love; how to contemplate love, how to talk about love, and how to be open to the possibility of love.

A show-in-motion, each performance of 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS invites the audience into the conversation, offering them agency in the story, and embedding them in the feeling of love.

Preview Tickets: $17 in advance, PWYC at the door
General Tickets: $22.50 in advance, $20 Rush at the door
(service charges may apply)
To purchased online visit www.theatrecentre.org or call 416.538.0988

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