2011 - 2012 Season
A Message from the Artistic Director
One of my favourite sounds is the buzz in a theatre lobby. I love catching stray phrases as I slink through the crowd. “Those characters reminded me of my family.” “The singing was fantastic.” “What did it make you think?” “How did it make you feel?”
Our season is like a play with nine acts, each very different from the other. They offer variety, surprise, and many different kinds of pleasure: real insights, deep feelings, bold new ideas, lush music and visuals, and truthful human storytelling.
Taken together, the 2011-2012 plays paint a vast canvas of human experience, and ask, ‘what’s now, what’s new, what’s next.” After all, plays are questions, never answers. They should make us talk and talk and talk.
We’ve dimmed the lights and fluffed the cushions - the place is already buzzing – see you at the theatre, for a terrific conversation!
Vanessa Porteous
Artistic Director
Starts Sept 20, 2011
Penny Plain
Created and Performed by Ronnie Burkett
October 18 - November 6, 2011
Wizard of Oz, The Musical
By L. Frank Baum, with Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg,
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
November 23 - December 31, 2011
Thinking of Yu
By Carole Fréchette, Translated by John Murrell
February 1 - March 4, 2012
Ash Rizin
By Michael P. Northey and Kyprios
In association with Green Thumb Theatre
February 3 - March 3, 2012
Good Fences
By the Downstage Creation Ensemble
In association with Downstage
February 14 - March 4, 2012
Playing with Fire:
The Theo Fleury Story
By Kirstie McLellan Day, Based on the life of Theo Fleury
Starring Shaun Smyth
