Photo Flash: World Premiere of George F. Walker's THE DAMAGE DONE
Canadian Rep Theatre Artistic Director Ken Gass is thrilled to present the world premiere of The Damage Done by George F. Walker, one of Canada's most prolific and popular playwrights as well as one of Canada's most widely produced dramatists at home and internationally. The Damage Done opens on Tuesday, November 22, running to December 11 at The Citadel (304 Parliament St., south of Dundas). Take a look at photos from the production below!
Directed by Ken Gass, this powerful two-hander stars Wes Berger (Dead Metaphor for Hamilton's Theatre Aquarius) as Bobby and Sarah Murphy-Dyson(CrazyLady's Parents Night/The Bigger Issue; her solo The Naked Ballerina for Toronto's Soul-O and Fringe festivals) as Tina.
Audiences first met Bobby and Tina in Walker's 1992 play, Tough! when the hapless couple were 19 and Tina unexpectedly pregnant. The Damage Done flashes forward 18 years later where Tina, a social worker on the brink of total burn-out, has been raising their teenage daughters largely on her own. Bobby has never gotten over the fact that it was Tina who left him, and his career fantasies (becoming a musician or a South Pole explorer) have gone nowhere. Now Bobby is writing a play, based on the pathetic entanglements of their lives.
George F. Walker is a Governor General, Chalmers and Dora Award-winner and one of Canada's most produced playwrights. Dead Metaphor, which had its Canadian premiere with Canadian Rep Theatre (co-produced with Mirvish Productions) in 2014, has also been successfully produced at the prestigious A.C.T. in San Francisco, Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton and recently at The Firehall in Vancouver. This past summer, Canadian Rep produced an ensemble adaptation of Walker's Tough! as part of its ENSEMBLE Canadian Youth Theatre initiative.
Photos by Michael Cooper
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Wes Berger and Sarah Murphy-Dyson
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