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Listen to Des Walsh speak (even sing) on Rocking The Cradle … playing only until Dec 13th.
“Yes, It’s all family and you’re there for generations, but there is still that loneliness. There is still that one call of a crow in the morning…”
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An interview with Des Walsh, playwright of Rocking The Cradle. Toronto Premiere An RCA Theatre Company Production (St. Johns, NL) by Des Walsh freely adapted from Lorcas Yerma directed by Richard Rose ...
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Our exciting Play Reading Week (and a ½, really) continues with SPINE, by Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt tonight.
and CARRIED AWAY ON THE CREAST OF A WAVE by David Yee tomorrow.
All reading at 8 pm, and are completely free.
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A family is caught in the crossfire of gang violence after a mother and son witness a stabbing outside Christie Subway Station. As threats and fears loom large inside and outside their urban home, it is clear their lives will never be the same again.
Tarragon Theatre Play Reading Week continues tonight with MOTHER OF HIM by Evan Placey (winner of the inaugural Tarragon RBC Under 30 Playwriting Competition). Readings are always FREE!
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MOTHER OF HIM, by Evan Placey - It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons, but eight year-old Jason’s refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. As Brenda struggles for justice for her son, she learns it’s the laws inside the...
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Play Reading Week 2009 begins tonight at 8pm in the Tarragon studio!
Many of our Mainspace plays were first seen at Play Reading Week. Courageous by Michael Healey and Hush by Rosa Laborde enjoyed readings just last year, and are coming up on stage at Tarragon later this season...
Tonight's Reading is Beatrice Chancy, by George Elliott Clarke
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Beatrice Chancy - by George Elliott Clarke Beatrice, the daughter of a black slave woman and her white master, is sixteen and just returned from a convent school where she was sent “to copy white ladies ways”. She is the apple of her father’s eye until her declaration of love for a slave sparks a mo...
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Know anyone in Winnipeg? Hannah Moscovitch's stunning play East of Berlin opens tonight at MTC (and returns to Tarragon January 6th)
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Young, photogenic, bright and refreshingly open, Moscovitch is the face of a new generation of playwrights in this country. Based only on a few promising one-acts and her first full-length drama, East of Berlin, she is one of the most sought after theatre scribes.
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Listen to the interview with director Richard Rose on, Des Walsh’s Rocking The Cradle. (Now Playing!)
"I have a very strong affection for Newfoundland and the way of life there. Because it’s so isolated, It’s a bit like a particular kind of Petri dish." - Richard Rose
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An interview with Richard Rose, director of Rocking The Cradle at Tarragon Theatre. Toronto Premiere An RCA Theatre Company Production (St. Johns, NL) by Des Walsh freely adapted from Lorcas Yerma
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ArtsVote begins the one year count down to the next municipal Toronto election with the kickoff party tomorrow night (Tuesday November 17 from 5pm - 7pm) at the Urbanspace Gallery.
To stay in the loop with ArtsVote, sign up for communications through their website at www.artsvotetoronto.ca
I'm an Artist. I Vote.
Location:Urbanspace Gallery
Time:5:00PM Tuesday, November 17th
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His muses: a bleak Spanish play and a boyhood in Newfoundland...
From Saturday's G&M, an article on Rocking The Cradle playwright, Des Walsh
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And while Walsh's Newfoundland audiences enjoyed a special familiarity with the play, he is confident its themes will resonate at the Tarragon. “You can be as isolated in downtown Toronto as you could be in a remote mountain in Alaska,” he says.
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This Saturday Nov 14th, @1pm - Guillaume Bernardi, head of the Drama Program at York's Glendon College, is the next lecturer to take part in our Free Lecture Series.
Join us in the rehearsal hall before the show for one of our most popular outreach events!
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When Joan marries Vince in a small Newfoundland outport she has great dreams for their future together. Vince has his own plans, but Joan is determined to win him over, whatever the cost. Featuring East ...
Tarragon Theatre One of the best things overheard in the Tarragon Box Office, Ever: “And how will you be paying for that?” “. . . Magic. I’ll be using my magic.”
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Barely two hours till the curtian rises on the opening night of Rocking The Cradle...
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Enter to win a Des Walsh prize pack with Mongrel Media below, including Des’ book of poetry, tickets to the movie adaption of Love and Savagery, and tickets to Rocking The Cradle!
(Rocking The Cradle: Final Preview tonight. Opening Tomorrow! Woot! http://www.tarragontheatre.com/season/09
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Tarragon Theatre There are still some tickets remaining for this final week of The Drowning Girls...
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Three blushing brides emerge from their daily baths, to tell the tale of a whirlwind romance with the same suitor. Charming, seductive, he rescues all three from the life of a spinster – but at what price?
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The lovely and talented Ruth Lawrence is interviewed in Now Magazine this week.
Ruth and the whole cast of Rocking The Cradle enjoyed its first preview performance last night here in Toronto! Previews run till Nov 10th, and preview tickets are just $19.
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“She married with the intention of fulfilling her role in the community as a wife and mother,” says Newfoundland actor Ruth Lawrence, who plays the role. “From the start of the show, we see she wants a family. Her determination, in some way, is her tragic flaw; it becomes an obsession.
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Check out this article over at CBC on the big events of the last decade in performing arts in Canada: Mamma Mia, Filumena, The Four Seasons Centre and Tarragon’s English premiere of Scorched...
Do you think anything got missed?
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2007 Lipsynch and Scorched premiere. Quebec's theatre artists think big. Robert Lepage unveiled Lipsynch, his nine-hour play on aural themes, at Newcastle's Northern Stage in the U.K. Meanwhile, at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, Wajdi Mouawad gave us Scorched, the sweeping second instalment in his tet...
