Tarragon Theatre presents the world premiere of Cake and Dirt at Tarragon Theatre’s Mainspace
Dates: 3/3/2015 - 4/12/2015
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30 Bridgman Avenue
Toronto, M5R 1X3
Phone: 416-531-1827
Tickets: Regular Tickets: $50-$55; Previews: $27 (Discounts for seniors, students, arts workers and groups)
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Tarragon Theatre proudly presents world premiere of Cake and Dirt, written by one of Canada's most prolific and acclaimed playwrights, Daniel MacIvor, a Tarragon Playwright-in-Residence and a Governor General's Literary Award-winner. This darkly comic look at life in Toronto through a fractured family of privilege opens March 11 and runs to April 12, 2015 (previewing from March 3) in Tarragon's Mainspace. For tickets, call 416.531.1827 or visit www.tarragontheatre.com
Amiel Gladstone, making his Tarragon debut, directs a star-studded cast: Maggie Huculak, Bethany Jillard, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Laara Sadiq, David Storch and Maria Vacratsis. Money, sex, lies and power collide in the aftermath of a champagne-fueled birthday party in a downtown penthouse residence. Cake and Dirt is a mystery of consequences and causes, a parable of deceit, and an urban ghost story where a small act of evil may indeed create a great good.
MacIvor says, "I've been wanting to write a play with bite - because that's how I've been feeling - and a few years ago, in one of the communities that I am a part of, there was a scandalous event. There was a huge outrage from most everyone - posting rants, finger-pointing, stating opinions as facts - and it made me think about outrage and realize what an ultimately selfish behaviour it is. That made me think again about a book I had read some years before that, Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs. Jacobs was an urban planner who had made Toronto her home and came to love it - just as I had. But she was concerned about where we were headed, not just in Toronto but in cities all over North America. The central problem she identifies is a kind of selfishness. Cake and Dirt came out of that thinking and my feelings around the reaction to that event."
Amiel Gladstone, making his Tarragon debut, directs a star-studded cast: Maggie Huculak, Bethany Jillard, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Laara Sadiq, David Storch and Maria Vacratsis. Money, sex, lies and power collide in the aftermath of a champagne-fueled birthday party in a downtown penthouse residence. Cake and Dirt is a mystery of consequences and causes, a parable of deceit, and an urban ghost story where a small act of evil may indeed create a great good.
MacIvor says, "I've been wanting to write a play with bite - because that's how I've been feeling - and a few years ago, in one of the communities that I am a part of, there was a scandalous event. There was a huge outrage from most everyone - posting rants, finger-pointing, stating opinions as facts - and it made me think about outrage and realize what an ultimately selfish behaviour it is. That made me think again about a book I had read some years before that, Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs. Jacobs was an urban planner who had made Toronto her home and came to love it - just as I had. But she was concerned about where we were headed, not just in Toronto but in cities all over North America. The central problem she identifies is a kind of selfishness. Cake and Dirt came out of that thinking and my feelings around the reaction to that event."
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