Passe Muraille Goes With Classic
2007-2008 Season includes revival of The Drawer Boy
Theatre Passe Muraille is embarking on it's 40th Anniversary Season, and Artistic Director Layne Coleman has programmed 5 productions in his final season with the historic Toronto theatre.
Coleman has announced his resignation from Theatre Passe Muraille, and Andy McKim, currently the Associate Artistic Director at the Tarragon Theatre, will take over for Coleman.
Theatre Passe Muraille has been home to 500 new Canadian plays, and has featured premieres by Michael Healey, Timothy Findley, Rick Salutin, and Ann Marie MacDonald.
The 2007-2008 Season has been announced as follows, according to the press release:
The Drawer Boy
Written by Michael Healey
Previews from October 23, opens October 26, runs to November 18, 2007
Winner of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Governor General's Literary Award for Best English Drama and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Best New Play, The Drawer Boy is a new classic in Canadian theatre.
Michael Healey’s extraordinarily popular play is based on the true story of the creation of Theatre Passe Muraille’s Farm , which was developed by a group of actors who went to live in Clinton, Ontario in 1972. Funny and moving in equal share, The Drawer Boy begins with the clash of urban and rural, youth and middle age, the life of the artist versus the life of the farmer. It ends on a profoundly hopeful note of transformation through the power of storytelling.
Risk Life – A Double Bill
Born Ready by Joseph Jomo Pierre
and
Smoke by David S. Craig
Previews from February 9, opens February 13, runs to March 9, 2008
Youth drug use: two topical, headline-grabbing issues refracted through the unique imaginations of playwrights Joseph Jomo Pierre and David S. Craig, whose critically acclaimed one-act plays are presented together for the first time under the banner title Risk Life. Each play is a frank and honest theatrical take on the seductiveness of guns or drugs – and the consequences of their use.
Last Days Of Graceland
Written by Franca Miraglia
Previews from March 14, opens March 19, runs to April 6, 2008
How do you say goodbye to a legend? Last Days Of Graceland follows Sandra, a professional deliverer of eulogies for dead celebrities, on a journey to reclaim her past. Outside the gates of Graceland, a crumbling icon of American excess, memories intersect, lives collide and unlikely allies collude. A contemporary redemption story, Franca Miraglia’s latest play is a searing testament to the persistence of memory and a moving tribute to our capacity for forgiveness.
People Power
A collective creation directed by Nina Lee Aquino
Previews from April 11, opens April 16, runs to May 11, 2008
People Power interweaves several inspirational stories of those who lived through the peaceful revolution that ended 15 years of Ferdinand Marcos’ brutal and corrupt leadership of the Philippines in the 1970s and ‘80s. Created and performed by members of Carlos Bulosan Theatre’s collective, People Power recounts the birth of a democracy through the rhythms and social realities of a newly politicized people: a revolutionary play with poetry, music and movement.
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