Necessary Angel Presents Divisadero: A Performance

Necessary Angel presents Divisadero: a performance with text by Michael Ondaatje

Directed by Daniel Brooks
Songs written and performed by Justin Rutledge
Set & Costume Design by John Thompson
Lighting Design by Andrea Lundy
Music & Sound Design by Alexander MacSween
Stage Managed by Crystal Salverda
Featuring Liane Balaban, Maggie Huculak, Tom McCamus, Amy Rutherford and Justin Rutledge
Produced in association with The Film Farm

Performances February 8-20, 2011 at Theatre Passe Muraille's Mainspace, 16 Ryerson Avenue
Tuesday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Tickets: Tuesday - Thursday $25, Fridays $30, Saturdays $35, Sunday Matinee PWYC

The press will be invited to choose any one of the first three performances to attend (8th-10th February), and watch a production that will change as it shares its life with an audience.

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Necessary Angel presents Divisadero: a performance, Michael Ondaatje's adaptation of his Governor General's Award-winning novel, directed by the company's Artistic Director Daniel Brooks.

Collaborating with Brooks and Ondaatje on Divisadero: a performance are Liane Balaban, Maggie Huculak, Tom McCamus, Amy Rutherford, Justin Rutledge - the Juno-nominated musician who has created music specifically for this piece - and designers Andrea Lundy, Alexander MacSween and John Thompson.

Divisadero: a performance tells a story of a family that is forever changed by a single, violent event, and examines themes of memory, identity, love and the grip of the past on the present. The production combines music, performance and story-telling, exploring the intimacy between the speaker and the listener, and language's ability to weave a magical spell.
Necessary Angel welcomes Ondaatje's return to the stage with his first full-length play in over two decades since he co-adapted his novel Coming Through Slaughter with the company for its presentation at the Silver Dollar Tavern in 1989. Divisadero: a performance was performed last fall in a series of sold-out workshop presentations under the Working Title When My Name Was Anna.

Michael Ondaatje is one of Canada's leading novelists and poets. Best known for The English Patient, he has won the Governor-General's award four times as well as the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Medics. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1988.

Daniel Brooks, Artistic Director of Necessary Angel since 2003, is a prolific and versatile artist whose innovation and risk-taking have made him a leader within the Canadian cultural landscape. He has been recognized with accolades and awards throughout Canada and around the world including the inaugural Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.