Season 2018 / 19
The Season Includes…
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Transforming the Voices of Montreal
October 20th - 27th, 2018
A one-week special engagement
in collaboration with McGill Department of English and Eraly Modern Conversions
Under the guidance of Mask Master Brian Smith, using comic half masks and under the ‘trance’ of the mask, actors will find contemporary characters and situations to render the obscure Elizabethan language and word-play understandable to a contemporary audience.
This production will allow the distinct voices of Montréal, discovered by the magic of the comic half-mask, to distil the words of Shakespeare into stories and emotions so contemporary they will sound as if spoken on the streets and subways of Montréal today.
Through action, through distinct character choices which the mask work forces an actor to make, the myriad of potential meanings of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan poetry are distilled into limpid clarity for our contemporary audience.
Kafka's Ape
February 7th - 27th, 2019
Written by Franz Kafka
Adapted by Guy Sprung
Captured on the Gold Coast and imprisoned in a cage, Redpeter's only escape route is to become a walking, talking, spitting, hard-drinking member of the Peace Industry, the entrepreneurial world of mercenary soldiers that is one of the biggest growth industries of the 21st century. In detailing the journey of his enforced evolution from Apedom to Humandom, Mr. Redpeter is a living embodiment of the irony that perhaps now he is more animal than he ever was as an Ape. Based on Kafka’s short story A Report to an Academy, Kafka's Ape is a theatrical tour-de-force. Born in 1883, Kafka is one of the most influential authors of the 20th Century.
Fight ON! (Part Two)
March 21st - 24th, 2019
Written and Directed by Guy Sprung
Development Performances in English, French and Cree
Francis Jeffery Dickens arrives in Canada in 1874 with all the prejudices and presumptions of a white colonist/settler. After serving 11 years as a member of the North West Mounted Police, horrified by the mendacity and theft that robbed the Indigenous Peoples of their lands, Frank learns to respect the traditions and wisdom of First Nations culture and begins to understand the urgent need to live in harmony with Mother Nature.
The Unit cohort 2, Infinithéâtre’s Playwright’s Unit, returns with 7 new Quebec plays on stage.
September 20th - 23rd, 2018
Centaur Theatre, Freestanding Room, Mainline, Segal Centre
The Pipeline play reading series returns.
November 30th - December 2nd, 2018
Espace Knox
November 30, 2018
Paradise Lost by Erin Shields
2018 QWF Playwriting Prize Winner
Directed by Shawn Campbell
With: Jillian Haris, Meagan Schroeder, Alexandra Petrachuk, Gabriel Schultz, Diana Fajrajsl, Dakota Wellman and Eric Davis
The 17th century and present day are seamlessly intertwined as Satan vents to an audience about her frustration at being cast out of heaven and her thoughts on oppression.
December 1, 2018
Chained Woman by Lorne Svarc
Write-On-Q second place 2018
Directed by: Ellen David
With: Alex Poch Goldin, Michelle Heisler, Janis Kirshner, Jonah Carson, Joanna Caplan and Nir Guzinski
Sarah Kandelshein is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman. When her abusive husband refuses to grant her a religious divorce, she must choose between her freedom and her faith – that is until a “gangster” rabbi offers his services to help “change
December 2, 2018
Make Up by Alex Goldin
Write-On-Q winner 2018
Directed by Eda Holmes