Nightwood Theatre Presents MOUTHPIECE - Back By Popular Demand

Mouthpiece is a heart-wrenching and humorous journey into the female psyche. The performance is a virtuosic display of physical ingenuity and vocal orchestration. In the wake of her mother's death, Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, two performers express the inner conflict that exists within one modern woman's head.

Ranging from tender to merciless, with uncompromising precision, Mouthpiece magnifies a daughter's contemplation of her mother, and becomes a rigorous investigation of womanhood itself.

After its sold-out run in Toronto in 2016, Mouthpiece has toured to great acclaim - including a private presentation by Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles - and garnered nine Dora Award nominations and three wins. Nightwood is honoured to bring this powerful show back to the stage, and to continue to work with Quote Unquote Collective, our OAC Creators in Residence this season.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Tuesday - Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 2:30pm

Post-show talkback dates:
Tuesday, April 17th - with award-winning film director and writer Patricia Rozema Wednesday, April 18th - with author, public speaker and social activist Michele Landsberg OC

ABOUT NIGHTWOOD THEATRE

As Canada's foremost feminist theatre, Nightwood provides an essential home for the creation of extraordinary theatre by women. Founded in 1979, Nightwood Theatre has created and produced award-winning plays that have garnered Dora Mavor Moore, Chalmers, Trillium and Governor General's awards. The company is helmed by Artistic Director Kelly Thornton and Managing Director Beth Brown, whose leadership has received public acclaim for artistic excellence, the successful training and development of emerging female talent, and its ongoing activism around gender equity.

ABOUT QUOTE UNQUOTE COLLECTIVE

Quote Unquote Collective is a Toronto-based, multi-disciplinary performance company that aims to work outside the boundaries of tradition and expectation. Engaging with urgent social and political themes, the company is founded on the firm belief that art and performance are tools to provoke conversation and change. Co-founders Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, who both have a strong background in physical theatre and music, have joined forces to produce work in a variety of genres and disciplines as a means to make new, experimental, and provocative performance work that ignites conversation within the community and the world at large. Defying conventions of style and form, the collective is built on the idea that individual ideas demand to be expressed through different forms, and should be expressed by whatever means necessary.

ABOUT WHY NOT THEATRE

Why Not Theatre is an agile, international theatre company based in Toronto, Canada, rooted in the values of innovation, community, and collaboration. Our work is inventive, cross-cultural, and reflects our passion for the exploration of difference. We challenge the status quo, by examining what stories are being told, and who is telling them. More than just a theatre company, we develop creative strategies to build a healthier and stronger arts ecology. We MAKE and tour critically-acclaimed and award-winning new work, SHARE resources with other companies and artists to produce and tour their work, and PROVOKE change through new producing models and the presentation of work for new audiences. We are led by a core team of Founding Artistic Director Ravi Jain, Managing Director Owais Lightwala, and Executive Producer Kelly Read.

TICKETS range from $20 to $35 and are available in person at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre box office, 12 Alexander Street, at 416-975-8555, or at buddiesinbadtimes.com.

For more information on Mouthpiece, please visit nightwoodtheatre.net.
Nightwood gratefully acknowledges the support of Kate Amesbury for this presentation of Mouthpiece.