Presented by: Nowadays Theatre Company
Photos by Ken Reid and Muhammad Ruqi on Unsplash
HEART OF A DOG
WELCOME TO THE 2022 NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL. We may have had to adjust our plans slightly but we still have many wonderful shows for you to experience. It has been a long journey for these artists, whether experimenting with new online formats or suddenly recording a show in a venue, all of these companies have risen to the occasion and we are hoping that you, the audience, will not only support them but share their work with others. Our image this year is that of the butterfly, our theme is returning and transforming. Part of that was about coming back into a physical theatre which alas is no longer possible but I believe the imagery and idea still stands. We are returning – we have a festival still, four pieces that were curated from the very beginning with a digital space in mind and several new pieces that had to quickly pivot into creating their shows for you online. I could not be prouder of all that has been created both from our artists and the entire fringe team who have made this transformation happen. All we ask from you is to join us, be an active part of the storytelling and this chapter of Next Stage and enjoy! Happy Fringing,
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HEART OF A DOG Presented by NOWADAYS THEATRE company Playwright & Director
Mohammad Yaghoubi
Translators
Mahsa Ershadifar & Mohammad Yaghoubi
Lighting Designer Music Stage Manager Poster
David DeGrow Farshad Fozooni Laura Lakatosh Saman Farzaneh
Make Up Artist
Roksana Razavi
Photographer
Bahare Ahmadi
Assistant Directors
Mahsa Ershadifar & Sahra Ebrahimvaryani
Featuring (in order of appearance) Melanie Grace Siavash Shabanpour Neta J. Rose* Aida Keykhaii Aylin Oyan Salahshour Yury Ruzhyev Ali Ghorbanian *appearing courtesy of CAEA
AIDA KEYKHAII, ACTOR (SHARIK) Aida Keykhaii is a Canadian Iranian Actor and Director, producer, theatre instructor, and co-artistic director of NOWADAYS THEATRE company. She holds an M.A in Play Directing and a B.A in Acting from the University of Tehran. Recent Credits: Winter of 88 at the Next Stage Theatre Festival, 2020; during COVID, she performed two online theatre projects: From the Basement to the Roof and Dance of Torn Papers. Select Awards and Honours: The Iran Festival of University Theatre for Outstanding acting, Olive; The International Iran Festival of University Theatre award for Outstanding directing, Goodbye; Honourable Mention from Canadian Stage in Direction and NOW’s annual list of the “Best of the Fest” for Outstanding Production, Ensemble, and Direction, Swim Team. AYLIN OYAN SALAHSHOOR, ACTOR (SCHWONDER & NATASHA) Aylin Oyan Salahshoor is a Toronto-based actor. She has been actively pursuing her love for theatre in Toronto since 2018 and has attended several workshops in recent years, including Mohammad Yaghoubi and Aida Keykhaii’s acting sessions. Presently, she has enrolled in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, and an award winner of the Hart House monologue competition. Aylin has performed in several theatre productions in Toronto, include: 9428, Swim Team, and Sisyphus and Death. She has also appeared in The Dance of Torn Papers and The Only Way Possible. ALI GHORBANIAN, ACTOR (FYODOR) Ali trained in theater workshops; he has played different roles in Toronto and Tehran stages such as Johnnypateenmike in Cripple of Inishmaan, Katurian in Pillowman, and Paul in Seven Menus directed by Siavash Shabanpoor, Aida Keykhaii, and Sara Saberi respectively. DAVID DEGROW, LIGHTING DESIGNER Dave is a designer, teacher and activist working in Toronto. He has been part of over 300 productions across Canada, and his designs have been nominated for three Dora awards. He just completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, and is a founding member of the Means of Production Collective, a collective of Production Managers and Technical Directors advocating for a safe, equitable and supportive work culture in the gig economy (www.pmtd.ca).
LAURA LAKATOSH, STAGE MANAGER Laura began her work in stage management while attending the University of Toronto. What was initially an extracurricular activity through volunteering as an ASM, to balance the rigor of academia, quickly became a passion for theatre and stage management. While she did not end up pursuing a career more related to her undergraduate degree, she fully believes that her studies at U of T as an English major, as well as minors in Diaspora + Transnational studies and other disciplines, helped to widen her appreciation for performance, storytelling, and inclusivity of many diverse identities, backgrounds, and cultures in live theatre. Since then, she has endeavored to build a career by working as a professional Stage Manager. Select credits include: Nunsense (Bruce County Playhouse), Swim Team (Nowadays Theatre, The Theatre Centre), The Only Possible Way (Nowadays Theatre), and Hogtown: The Immersive Experience. MAHSA ERSHADIFAR, TRANSLATOR & ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Mahsa Ershadifar is a bilingual (English and Farsi) performer, assistant director and stage manager. She has worked with NOWADAYS THEATRE COMPANY on numerous projects, including but not limited to: The Only Possible Way, Swim Team, Winter of 88, 27 Words, Miss You, Poof, From The Basement To The Roof. Most recent credits include: Chekhov in Compliance with Protocol and Dance of Torn Papers, On the Shoulders of Antonio, Great Buddha, Help Them. Mahsa is very excited to be working on Heart of A Dog as an assistant director and translator and can’t wait to see this show on stage. You can also catch Mahsa from January 11th to January 30th on Crow’s Theatre production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. MELANIE GRACE, ACTOR (ZINA) I’m a Taurus, pretty good at pub trivia, middle child syndrome, likes spending time in the great outdoors, biking or hiking especially with mountain views, drag shows and good times! My friends would describe me as bubbly, easy going and a laugh... all true! Ideal Date: Warm beverages, social distanced walk with your dog. See how we vibe. Oh this isn’t a dating app bio? oops! It is nice to be writing a theatre bio instead of a dating bio again! Melanie really does miss the mountains of BC, she completed the acting programs at Vancouver Film School. After three years there she moved from BC back home to Ontario. Melanie is happy to be in Toronto establishing her place in the world of creatives, and thrilled to be Zina in Heart of a Dog. What an opportunity to be on stage again, enjoy the show!
MOHAMMAD YAGHOUBI, PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR Born and raised in Iran, Mohammad Yaghoubi is a playwright, director, screenwriter, and the co-artistic director of NOWADAYS THEATRE company. His plays have been translated and produced in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Turkey, and the USA. Recent Credits: Dance of Torn Papers (Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival, 2021), Winter of 88 (Next Stage Theatre Festival, 2020), The Only Possible Way (Canadian Stage, 2019). Selected Awards: The Promising Pen Prize from Cahoots Theatre for his play Persimmon, 2021; The National Theatre Critics Society Award for Outstanding Play - Drought & Lies; First place winner of the Iranian Playwrights Society and third place winner of the New Play Contest in Toronto’s Fringe Festival - 2016 for Writing - A Moment of Silence. NETA J. ROSE, ACTOR (PROFESSOR PREOBRAZHENSKY) Neta J. Rose (they/them) is a proud Ashkenazi Jewish queer non-binary redheaded tomboy-femme geek - as well as an actor, visual artist, poet, and theatre creator based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are a founding member of Create! Youth Theatre, in Scotland, now entering its 13th year. Neta’s theatre credits include: Henry G20 (Luminato), The Omnibus Bill (TACTICS), The Bonds of Interest (Odyssey), The Penelopiad (Hart House), We The Men - New York cast (Soulo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night (Foxtail - UK) and they will return to the Toronto stage in 2022 as Professor Preobazhensky in NOWADAYS THEATRE’s new adaptation of Heart of a Dog (Next Stage). You might have also recently spotted them on-screen eating endless mozza sticks for Boston Pizza during Raptors’ games. The life of an actor is never boring. SIAVASH SHABANPOUR, ACTOR (DOCTOR BORMENTAL) Siavash Shabanpour is a Toronto-based Poet, Director and Actor. He studied Theatre Studies at York University. Some directing credits include: Chekhov in Compliance with Protocol, The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Operatic Narration of Arash the Archer, Horses at the Window, and The Story of Panda Bears Told By a Saxophonist Who Has a Girlfriend in Frankfurt. Some acting credits include: Sleeping in an Empty Cup (Dir: Aida Keikhaii), The Monsters (Dir: Mohammad Yaghoubi), The Pillowman (Dir: Aida Keykhaii and Mohammad Yaghoubi), Dr. Faustus (Dir: Aleksandar Lukac) and Workshop’s presentation of Conference of the Birds, Only Sound Remains and Arush all Directed by Soheil Parsa. Feature film credits include Language (Dir: Elizabeth Lazebnik), and he was also the casting assistant and acted in The Bright Side of the Moon (Dir: Farhad Ahi).
YURY RUZHYEV, ACTOR (THE drunk man) Yury Ruzhyev (Yura) is an actor and performer in film, theatre, and circus. Graduate of B.Shukin Theatre School (Moscow), clown conservatory with John Turner (Canada), clown school of Philippe Gaulier (Paris), and studied theatre and clown with Sonia Norris (Toronto). Co-created and performed in plays: Komunka directed by Sky Gilbert (Fringe) and In Sundry Languages directed by Art Babayants. Recent circus credits include: No Elephant Clown Show (Montreal, Milan, Berlin) and Viva Cabaret impersonations show (Paris, Moscow, New York). Latest TV credits are The Hot Zone and The Boys. Yura is very excited to be a part of this project. NOTES ON THE PLAY: Heart of a Dog is a comical adaptation written by Mohammad Yaghoubi, based on a novel by celebrated writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The story is about a stray dog saved by a successful surgeon who runs an operation by trepanning his skull and giving him human pituitary glands. Later on, the dog gets hired by the Soviet State and starts working for them. Arguably, this timeless story – uniquely – portrays the exploitation of people in any society in which individuals are used and even abused due to particular political intentions of the government. The novel Heart of a Dog considered to be a satire of Bolshevism, was written in 1925; however, its official release is dated a few decades after, in 1987. It is interpreted by many as an allegory of the Communist Revolution in Russia. Politically speaking, the play written based on the novel can be interpreted for any capitalistic country and the totalitarian systems such as Iran, China, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Mohammad Yaghoubi has directed the Farsi adaptation of this story twice in Iran. The Farsi premiere of Heart of a Dog was in 1999. He also remounted this play in 2014, in which he had a different approach, and asked all the men in the show to wear headscarves. This was in response to the image of women that the Islamic state has disseminated in recent decades. In Iran, the state dictates Islamic sartorial codes for women to this day. Yaghoubi used this approach to criticize the compulsory hijab and censorial regulations. The narrative of this story inspired Yaghoubi to expose the similarities of the totalitarian states of two different countries of different times with contradicting ideologies wherein one communism ruled over people’s lives (Russia) and in the other religion (Iran). That project showed how ridiculously similar these countries are regarding the lack of freedom of speech and freedom of opinion. Ironically, the male actors had to uncover their hijabs because the government’s censorship office forced Yaghoubi and the company to change their critical approach.
ABOUT NOWADAYS THEATRE COMPANY: NOWADAYS THEATRE is a Toronto-based not-for-profit company founded by Aida Keykhaii and Mohammad Yaghoubi in 2016. It is a highly acclaimed theatre company with over a decade of background in Iran with its Farsi name, “In-Rooz-Ha”, which means “Nowadays”. In the interest of inspiring cross-cultural dialogue and supporting cultural diversity in Canada, NOWADAYS THEATRE translates Canadian plays into Farsi and Iranian plays into English. Our works have been performed in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Kurdistan, Russia, Sweden, The Czech Republic, Turkey, and the USA. NOWADAYS THEATRE was the 2018-19 RBC Emerging Company in Residence at Canadian stage, where, they presented The Only Possible Way written and directed by Mohammad Yaghoubi at Upstairs Theatre. In 2018, Swim Team, presented by NOWADAYS THEATRE, and directed by Aida Keykhaii was premiered at the SummerWorks Lab, and it was in NOW’s annual list of “the best of the Fest” for Outstanding Production, Outstanding ensembles, Outstanding Direction, and Outstanding design. Swim Team was also mentioned in the list of Canadian Stage Award for Direction as “Honourable Mentions”. The last in-person theatre project before the pandemic, presented by NOWADAYS THEATRE with the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts, was the celebrated Iranian play Winter of 88 written and directed by Mohammad Yaghoubi at the 2020 Next Stage Theatre Festival, Toronto. The production received amazing reviews, including 5Ns review from NOW Magazine. In May 2021, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, NOWADAYS THEATRE presented the online English premier of the Iranian recognized play From the Basement to the Roof directed by Aida Keykhaii. Our recent project was an immersive 360-degree video-theatre project of the celebrated Iranian play Dance of Torn Papers written and directed by Mohammad Yaghoubi streamed at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2021.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Nowadays Theatre Company was founded by first-generation Iranian immigrants in 2016. We have always been interested in creating cross-cultural dialogue and supporting cultural diversity in Canada because we know the importance of preserving what makes us unique, our cultures. Even though we are a long way from our country of origin, our new home accepts and lets us create without making us change. This is why we actively do not support colonial forces that undermine, distort or erase the vital role of Indigenous people in our world. Land acknowledgments are a stepping stone to honouring broken treaty relationships, and we embrace the theatrical practice of making this small but significant gesture. “We acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.” We are grateful to have the opportunity to create and perform on this land. THANK YOUS: to Lucy Eveleigh, Laura Paduch, Suzanne Wilkie, Caitlin Farley, Damien Nelson, Carly Chamberlain, Yuddha Maharaj, and all the Next Stage Fringe Festival staff for their generous and tireless efforts. NOWADAYS THEATRE company is extremely grateful to the Toronto Arts Council for its generous support. SPONSORS
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TANGO IN THE DARK
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