15.16 Season Brochure

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It was a play, pure fiction, but I found myself weeping. Stranger still, I loved it, loved the experience, and the experience of the experience, I loved feeling moved, and weeping, and hearing the sniffles of the person sitting beside me, the person behind.

Suddenly we were “us,� the audience, collectively understanding, more than that, collectively experiencing the very frailty of our existence, and at the same time the very wonder.

And though this may sound odd, what shifted inside me was this: life became more meaningful, at least for a moment. I felt privy to a deeper, more engaged understanding of our humanity - what makes us tick, or tock, or both. And this, in turn, made me feel alive, so very, very alive.

PHOTO: V. TONY HAUSER

I went to the theatre last night and when I left, something inside me had shifted. I had been witness to a moment of heart-wrenching humanity, an impossible love, a bit of bad judgement that led to catastrophic results, death and despair.

This is what theatre can offer us, and it is why I spend my life pursuing it, making it, sharing it. And the more artists I encounter, the more surprises I have (both good and bad), and the hungrier I become for just how vast the world of story-telling is, how infinitely varied, uncircumscribable.

Sometimes words help to organize the chaos of experience, and sometimes they just aren't enough. Sometimes images may crystallize an emotion, sometimes music, sometimes silence. A dancer might take us somewhere no actor could, and sometimes the inverse is true. The theatre offers us all of this, intensely, joyously, poignantly, constantly redefining itself in order to take us to that very special place, that inimitable place of meaning, meaning for the mind and for the heart, for the heart's mind and the mind's heart.

This is why we do what we do, why we bring together artists from so many walks of life, such diverse styles and disciplines - theatre, dance, opera and multiple crossings-over - because each, in her or his own way, has something essential to share with us, a nugget, a momentary glimpse into the who, the why and the how of our existence.

And so, from me to you, from all of us at Canadian Stage to all of you, please join us. We are so looking forward.

MATTHEW JOCELYN Artistic & General Director 3

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H I G H P A R K A M P H I T H E AT R E

S H A K E S P E A R E I N H I G H PA R K

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William Shakespeare

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS DIRECTED BY

Estelle Shook

Matjash Mrozewski

A CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE THEATRE DEPARTMENT IN THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, MEDIA, PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN AT YORK UNIVERSITY

“Shakespeare in High Park [is] an indispensable summer fixture” – NOW MAGAZINE

Caesar : Tue, Thu, Sat at 8 pm Comedy : Wed, Fri, Sun at 8 pm

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JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

A case of mistaken identity ends in hilarity. A case of mistaken intent results in war. Canadian Stage returns to Toronto’s High Park for its 33rd season with two of Shakespeare’s great "Roman" plays on alternating nights throughout the summer: the fast-moving, delightful Comedy of Errors, and the classic tragedy, Julius Caesar.

With two directors, the most recent graduates of the YorkUniversity-Canadian Stage MFA program, and one sparkling cast, you have two opportunities to take in this summer tradition under the stars in the High Park Amphitheatre.

JUL 2 - SEP 6, 2015

JULIUS CAESAR DIRECTED BY

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A NEW CREATION BY TWO OF CANADA’S MOST CELEBRATED COMPANIES IN A BOUNDARY-STRETCHING SPECTACLE

CREATED BY

Crystal Pite AND Jonathon Young WRITTEN AND CONCEIVED BY

CHOREOGRAPHED AND DIRECTED BY

Jonathon Young

Crystal Pite

WORLD PREMIERE

“Pite brings a refined lyricism which transforms everything she touches” – THE OBSERVER

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CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE TORONTO 2015 ARTS AND CULTURE FESTIVAL PANAMANIA (PRESENTED BY CIBC), SADLER’S WELLS (LONDON UK), THE BANFF CENTRE, NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE (OTTAWA), THE CANDANCE NETWORK, CANADIAN STAGE (TORONTO), L’AGORA DE LA DANSE (MONTREAL), BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY (EDMONTON), AND DANCE VICTORIA (VICTORIA)

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

A state of shock and bewilderment encompasses you in the wake of a disaster. It is a timeless, liminal space where you return again and again even while struggling to gain and maintain distance, repeatedly responding to the disaster long after it has subsided.

Here, a crisis-management team is keeping your emergency situation alive and present, a trusted voice urging you to come to terms with the past, and a steady supply of “The Show” available for all the distraction, escape and pleasure you might crave. In one sense, you are the survivor and this is your refuge.

In another, you’re the disaster waiting to happen. Betroffenheit (working title) brings the choreographer of Dark Matters (2012) and The Tempest Replica (2014) with co-creator and lead actor of Tear the Curtain! (2012) in a hybrid of theatre and dance.

JUL 23-25, 2015 + FEB 18-21, 2016

A KIDD PIVOT, ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE PRODUCTION, PRESENTED

BY PANAMANIA ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAM AND CANADIAN STAGE

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the kiss Guillermo Calderon A CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

“[Calderon is] Chile's most acclaimed playwright-director of the last two decades.” – L.A. TIMES

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Two couples meet for dinner to take their minds off the war raging around them. An unexpected profession of love, an untimely proposal, and one kiss later, one of the foursome lies dead on the floor. Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon’s newest play breaks open cultural barriers as a group of western actors interpreting a Syrian play slowly realize the limits of their own understanding, and the suffocating effect of an oppressive, omnipresent regime.

OCT 13 - NOV 1, 2015

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A PROVOCATIVE AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL BOUNDARIES AND THE LIMITS OF UNDERSTANDING

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julie COMPOSED BY

LIBRETTO BY

Philippe Boesmans

Luc Bondy

DIRECTED BY

MUSIC DIRECTION BY

Matthew Jocelyn

Les Dala

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

“If operas were always of the quality of this Julie, our musical life would be considerably richer” – LE MONDE, PARIS PRODUCTION SPONSOR

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JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

In 1888, Swedish playwright August Strindberg debuted Miss Julie, a hallmark of naturalistic theatre that has since been performed around the world in a variety of adaptations and formats. A tale of the narrowing realities of life and the human aspiration to break free of those constraints, two servants and their countess grapple with the complexities of desire, ambition and inevitable loss. Artistic & General Director Matthew Jocelyn directs this North American premiere of a work by Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, recognized internationally as one of the greatest opera composers of our times.

NOV 17 - NOV 29, 2015

A CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH SOUNDSTREAMS WITH SUPPORT FROM THE THÉÂTRE D'ORLÉANS, FRANCE

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A STUNNING 21ST CENTURY OPERATIC TAKE ON ONE OF THE 19TH CENTURY’S MOST IMPORTANT PLAYS

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Bruce Norris

BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - DOWNSTAIRS

A NEW PLAY BY PULITZER- AND TONY-WINNING MASTER STORYTELLER BRUCE NORRIS

DIRECTED BY

A COMPANY THEATRE AND CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION

CANADIAN PREMIERE

"Terrifically, almost scandalously entertaining. Absorbing from start to finish." – TIME MAGAZINE

PROUD SPONSOR: 15.16 BERKELEY SEASON

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

What happens when a popular politician is discovered by police at the bedside of an injured prostitute? Bill Pulver's credibility is irrevocably damaged and the lives of his wife and daughters are turned upside-down as Pulitzer- and Tony-Award winning author Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park, 2012) follows the scandal beyond the cameras and into the private bedroom of a public humiliation. It’s a wickedly funny, deeply serious and totally unpredictable take on power, sexuality and politics.

NOV 17 - DEC 13, 2015

Philip Riccio

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hedda gabler DIRECTED BY

Jennifer Tarver A NECESSARY ANGEL PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CANADIAN STAGE

“[Jennifer Tarver] is regarded as one of the finest talents of her generation” – TORONTO STAR

PROUD SPONSOR: 15.16 BERKELEY SEASON

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Hedda Gabler has just landed the perfect life: a successful husband, a beautiful home and the promise of a growing family. But below the surface lies a yearning that threatens to explode the polished surface of her new existence.

Necessary Angel continues its residency at the Berkeley Street Theatre as Jennifer Tarver (Venus in Fur, 2013 and What Makes a Man, 2014) brings her distinctive vision to Ibsen’s enduring and prescient portrait of a willfully blind society. For a woman determined to live her own truth, she will be free or destroy everything trying.

JAN 12 - FEB 7, 2016

BY

Henrik Ibsen

BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - DOWNSTAIRS

A CONTEMPORARY RE-TELLING OF A CLASSIC PLAY FROM THE DIRECTOR OF VENUS IN FUR

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kiss & cry BY

B L U M A A P P E L T H E AT R E

A RAVISHING BLEND OF FILM AND THEATRE RETURNS FOR AN EXCLUSIVE 4-PERFORMANCE RUN

Michèle Anne De Mey AND Jaco Van Dormael PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

“Sheer magic, sheer joy... this astonishing and unrivalled show blends poetry and magic, film and dancing fingers” – LA LIBRE BELGIQUE

CANADIAN STAGE’S PRESENTATION OF KISS & CRY AND COLD BLOOD IS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE PROVIDED GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT WITH AN OVERWHELMING PASSION FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

PRODUCTION SPONSOR

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After stunning audiences last year, Kiss & Cry returns to Canadian Stage for four performances in February 2016, just days before the North American premiere of Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael’s newest creation Cold Blood. This is the final opportunity to catch Kiss & Cry. Projected live on screen and portrayed exclusively by hands and fingers dancing on miniature landscapes, Gisele reflects on her life, starting with her first love: a boy whose hand she touched for a few seconds on a crowded train when she was 13 years old. This extraordinary blend of film, dance, text and theatre is unlike anything you’ve seen before and is sure to leave you breathless.

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B L U M A A P P E L T H E AT R E

FROM THE CREATORS OF KISS & CRY

cold blood

FEB 10 - FEB 14, 2016

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Michèle Anne De Mey Jaco Van Dormael

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PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

CO-PRODUCED BY CANADIAN STAGE CANADIAN STAGE’S PRESENTATION OF KISS & CRY AND COLD BLOOD IS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE PROVIDED GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT WITH AN OVERWHELMING PASSION FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

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Employing many of the same stunning production values and cinematographic methods that captivated Kiss & Cry audiences, Cold Blood continues the beautiful story of lost love by following a boy and his journey through manhood into a darker, more uncaring world.

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torobaka

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VIRTUOSIC CHOREOGRAPHERS AKRAM KHAN AND ISRAEL GALVÁN BLEND INDIAN KATHAK AND SPANISH FLAMENCO – ONLY AT CANADIAN STAGE

CREATED AND PERFORMED BY

Akram Khan & Israel Galván

“[Khan’s] dancing is mercurial, his characters superbly realised" – THE INDEPENDENT

“None, surely, has been more daringly innovative than Israel Galván" - FINANCIAL TIMES

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JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Following the audience favourite and critically acclaimed DESH (2013), Akram Khan returns to Canadian Stage with the great flamenco artist Israel Galván in a new piece that mixes Indian kathak and Spanish flamenco in a thrilling stylistic dialogue. Inspired by the rhythmic roots of civilization and the sacred relationship between the hunter and animal, these virtuosic performers use innovative choreography, exquisite technique and contemporary storytelling to create a distinctly new form of dance.

MAR 9 - MAR 12 , 2016

PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

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célébration francophonie de la

PROUD SPONSOR: 15.16 BERKELEY SEASON

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This season, for the first time, Canadian Stage is showcasing the sounds and spirit of Canada’s great francophone musicianship with Célébration de la Francophonie: an intimate festival featuring some of the remarkable French-language musicians that our country has produced, and who we rarely or never get to see in Toronto.

Montreal-born, Outaouais-raised, Parisbased singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Mélissa Laveaux, who brings her truly unique style of rhythmic folk-world music, alongside the pithy, endlessly inventive AcadianCanadian singer-songwriter Lisa LeBlanc.

MAR 17 - MAR 19, 2016

PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - DOWNSTAIRS

A THREE-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING MUSIC FROM FRANCOPHONE CANADA

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chimerica

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WINNER OF THE LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARD FOR BEST NEW PLAY IN 2014

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Lucy Kirkwood DIRECTED BY

A CANADIAN STAGE AND ROYAL MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE PRODUCTION

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

"Ambitious, sprawling, morally fascinating, as gripping as a good novel."- LONDON TIMES

★★★★★

- DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN,

DAILY EXPRESS, FINANCIAL TIMES, METRO, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY EXPRESS, TIME OUT, SUNDAY TIMES, MAIL ON SUNDAY

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

As tanks roll through Tiananmen Square, crushing the student movement’s cries for democracy, a young photojournalist from America captures on film a moment of defiance that comes to symbolize the struggle. More than twenty years later, a mysterious note appears in a Beijing newspaper and the now middle-aged journalist is driven to discover the truth about that fateful day, and the secrets that were buried as the world looked on. Lucy Kirkwood’s play examines the changing fortunes of two countries, their tied fates, and the fates of all caught in between.

MAR 29 - APR 17, 2016

Chris Abraham

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das ding

(the thing)

BERKELEY STREET THEATRE - UPSTAIRS

A GLOBETROTTING COMEDY OF GLOBALISED CONNECTIONS

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Ashlie Corcoran

Birgit Schreyer Duarte

A THEATRE SMASH PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CANADIAN STAGE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

“In a highly comical, breakneck fashion, Philipp Löhle illuminates the mechanisms of our globalised, technologised, rapidly changing world.” - DEUTSCHES THEATER, BERLIN

PROUD SPONSOR: 15.16 BERKELEY SEASON

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

Philipp Löhle's highly ambitious social comedy Das Ding spans an interconnected world that binds the fates of the African Siwa, Chinese business people, Romanian pig-breeders and two young newlyweds Katrin and Thomas. As a global crisis attaches itself to the smallest marital problems on a deeply personal level, all are forced to consider whether such a thing as coincidence can exist in a globalized world. Meanwhile, the eponymous ‘thing’ – a cotton fibre in its apparently endless iterations – looks on humanity, amazed.

APR 12 - MAY 1, 2016

Philipp Löhle

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TWO NEW PLAYS BY ONE OF CANADA’S MOST NOTABLE YOUNG WRITERS

botticelli in the fire & sunday in sodom BY

APR 26 - MAY 15, 2016

Jordan Tannahill A CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE THEATRE DEPARTMENT IN THE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, MEDIA, PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN AT YORK UNIVERSITY

WORLD PREMIERES A double bill by playwright Jordan Tannahill, recently nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Playwriting and a Canadian Stage OAC/Playwright-in-Residence

In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot’s Wife: the impertinent woman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God’s destruction of her hometown.

In Sunday in Sodom, Aida recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two American soldiers into their house, the fury this sparked in their village and the destruction that followed.

“Tannahill is ...one of Canada's most exciting independent theatre artists” – TORONTO STAR

ARTWORK BY MICHAEL COMEAU FOR KIDS ON TV

sunday in sodom

JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

botticelli in the fire When Sandro Botticelli, a seeker of beauty and pleasure, is accused of ‘keeping a boy,’ his close friendship with fellow painter and bon vivant Andrea del Verrocchio, and his young apprentice Leonardo Da Vinci, is put to the ultimate test when he realizes he must sacrifice more than just his art.

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$72 $66 $71 $52 $48 $51 $30 $30 $32

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ADD SHAKESPEARE IN HIGH PARK

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$25 no taxes/fees

SERVICE FEES Service fees and taxes are waived for subscribers. There is a $4 per ticket service charge plus HST for regular tickets. Prices as of Nov 1, 2014.

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T H E AT R E L O C AT I O N S

OUR THEATRES BLUMA APPEL THEATRE

BERKELEY STREET THEATRE Located just steps from the Distillery District, the historic Berkeley Street Theatre complex is home to two intimate performance spaces, as well as a large rehearsal space, props and wardrobe facilities, and the company’s administrative offices.

ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

The Bluma Appel Theatre in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts is the company’s main stage and home to seven of our productions this season.

Located just off Yonge Street in the heart of Toronto’s downtown core, this theatre has been Canadian Stage's home for more than 26 years.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BERKELEY

The Berkeley Street Theatre is located at 26 Berkeley Street, Toronto

DIRECTIONS TO THE BLUMA APPEL

The Bluma Appel Theatre is located in the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at 27 Front Street East, Toronto TTC FROM KING STATION (YONGE/UNIVERSITY LINE)

•E xit the station onto Yonge Street • Walk south on Yonge to Front Street • Turn left on Front Street and walk one block east • The St. Lawrence Centre is on the southeast side of Front Street at Scott Street TTC FROM UNION STATION (YONGE/UNIVERSITY LINE)

•O btain a transfer when you pay your fare; You will need it for the streetcar at King Station • Take the Eastbound King streetcar to the Ontario Street stop, which is one stop east of Sherbourne Street • Walk east on King Street one half block to Berkeley Street • Turn right onto Berkeley Street and continue south past Front Street • The theatre is located half a block south of Front Street on the west side of Berkeley

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•E xit Union Station on the south side of Front Street •W alk east along Front Street •T he St. Lawrence Centre is one block east of the corner of Yonge and Front on the south side

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FACE TO FACE Before the curtain rises, we want to see you up close. Face to Face: a threepart series running throughout the season at our historic Berkeley Street Theatre that celebrates our 15.16 season with music, food and art in a highlycurated, immersive experience.

Our Face to Face pass gives you and a guest access to all three events plus food, drink and programming.

INTERMISSION An open space/open mind event series for the culturally curious, INTERMISSION is a live exploration of what happens when divergent ideas and ideologies collide. Inspired

by Matthew Jocelyn’s programming and the conversations, themes, and diversions that shape our culture, no two events are alike.

MASTERCLASS Masterclass is a series of highly personal experiences that connects local professionals and emerging artists with internationally-acclaimed field experts to dialogue about Toronto’s rich arts and culture landscape within the content of Canadian Stage productions.

TALKS Join us before and after the show on designated nights for free, informal presentations led by artists, academics and subject-matter experts. Learn about the themes of the piece and the work that goes into a production beyond the state.

Visit our website for dates and times.

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