World Stage at Harbourfront , “Floating”: Feb 15 – 19
From the brilliant creative force of Hugh Hughes comes a fantastical tale of the island that floated away.
Amid a cornucopia of clutter on stage ? newfangled props, costumes, maps, lamps, fishing rods, globes, slide projectors and more lo-fi technology ? Floating is a simple story of the Welsh island of Anglesey suddenly and miraculously coming adrift from the bridge that attaches it to the United Kingdom. More »
TfT, “À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou (Forever Yours, Marie-Lou)”: Feb 2 – 19
Théâtre français de Toronto (TfT) is pleased to present and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Michel Tremblay’s play À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou (Forever Yours, Marie-Lou). One of the playwright’s strongest works, in it he speaks of isolation and the inability to communicate. In spite of these sombre notes, Michel Tremblay masterfully employs accents of hope, love, and affection. This iconic work will be presented in French with English surtitles at the Berkeley Street Theatre from February 2 to 19, 2011.
Necessary Angel, “Divisadero: a performance”: Feb 8 – 20
Justin Rutledge’s newest album, The Early Widows (from Six Shooter*Warner), has been nominated for a 2011 Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo category.
The Toronto-based singer-songwriter makes his theatrical debut February 8-20 in Necessary Angel’s Divisadero: a performance at Theatre Passe Muraille. More »
TheatreRUN & TFT, “Artaud: un portrait en décomposition”: Feb 16 – 26
TheatreRUN in association with Théâtre Français de Toronto present
Artaud: un portrait en décomposition
The new piece from the co-creators of the hit show SPENT
TheatreRUN is very proud to announce it’s latest creation, based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Artaud: un portrait en decomposition. An exciting combination of searing poetry, haunting images and verbatim theatre, Artaud: un portrait en decomposition runs from February 16-26 2011, Wednesday through Saturday, at Théâtre Français Centre for Creation (21 College Street. Office # 610 on the 6th floor). For more information or to reserve tickets contact theatrerun.ensemble (at) gmail (dot) com More »
York U. Dance, “Stories Off the Record”: Feb 16 – 18
The Next Generation of York U Dance Masters premiere Stories Off the Record
Stories Off the Record is this season’s second installment of world premieres by rising choreographers in York University’s MFA Program in Dance. Graduate students Angela Blumberg, Alison Daley, Katya Kuznetsova and Anastasia Maywood are each contributing an original work to the playbill as part of their thesis productions. A new duet by guest artist Tracey Norman, who graduated last year in first cohort of MFA dance students, rounds out the program, which runs February 16 to 18 at 7:30pm in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre at York’s Keele campus. More »
