What’s next from the gang at Teatro La Quindicina?Here is look at the new season line-up, plus a bonus production to kick off the year!
Surprise 2013 Curtain Raiser (subscribe now and pay only $20 per ticket!)
The Exquisite Hour
by Stewart Lemoine
April 11- 20
An fortuitous confluence of availabilities allows us to launch our season with an unexpected limited-run-revival of one of our favourite and most oft-requested productions. The Exquisite Hour premiered at the Edmonton Fringe in 2002, and Teatro last presented it in 2007. It’s lately become one of Canada’s favourite Lemoines, with well-received productions popping up in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. A seemingly well-adjusted bachelor finds his life forever altered on a summer evening when an alluring stranger materializes in his backyard to ask the question “Are you satisfied with what you know?” Jeff Haslam returns in the role of the questing Mr. Teale, now joined by Belinda Cornish as the mysterious Mrs. Darimont. The Exquisite Hour plays for only ten performances, and is available as a special add-on to your subscription to season 2013.
The Season:
Cause and Effect
by Stewart Lemoine
May 30 - June 15
For the second year in a row, the season begins with a brand new play by Lemoine, and this time it’s a gleefully suspenseful intrigue in the style of Evelyn Strange and The Velvet Shock. A man makes a choice. A woman responds to it. Before long, stillness gives way to motion, thought becomes deed, and dangerous variables give way to alarming certainties. The captivatingly conspiratorial quartet on board for this thrill ride is comprised of Jeff Haslam, Davina Stewart, Eric Wigston, and Beth Graham, in an audacious Teatro debut. BUY TICKETS NOW!
Eros and the Itchy Ant
by Stewart Lemoine
July 11-27
Last seen in 2006, this uproarious romantic comedy makes musical and mythological magic in that most unexpected of Teatro settings- present-day Canada. A piano teacher and a baker explore the possibilities of mutual attraction with a little intervention from a tart-tongued mezzo-soprano and an affable contemporary incarnation of the Greek god of love. It’s a vivacious and utterly unpredictable romp that climaxes in a full-blown operatic freakout with original music by Ryan Sigurdson. Young Teatro stars Rachel Bowron and Ryan Parker take the lead roles in this revival, with Cathy Derkach assuming the role of wisecracking Wanda, and Jeff Haslam returning to the role of Eros. BUY TICKETS NOW!
Marvelous Pilgrims
by Stewart Lemoine
Teatro at the Fringe: August 16 - September 1
Teatro returns to the Edmonton Fringe with another Lemoine premiere, and a splendid cast which mixes the traditional and the new for an enthralling entertainment in the manner of Witness to a Conga and Happy Toes. Teatro’s founding mother Leona Brausen returns to launch our fourth decade at the Festival, welcoming Sheldon Elter in an overdue company debut.
Others swept up in this sumptuous adventure are Farren Timoteo, Jenny McKillop, Davina Stewart, and in her first Teatro appearance, insouciant newcomer Mackenzie Reurink. BUY HOLDOVER TICKETS NOW! (August 27 - September 1)
Whiplash Weekend!
by Stewart Lemoine
October 10-26
A hit in the previous century, one of Teatro’s pioneering screwball comedies returns to the stage with all the velocity one might expect from a play whose characters include a champion swimmer, a race car driver, and serial divorcee. Last seen in 1997, this enchantingly knockabout escapade depicts a mad society weekend in Cape Cod, circa 1966. It’s a play rife with romantic misunderstandings and deliberate deceptions, with a cast headed by Belinda Cornish, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, and Shannon Blanchet, all variously pursuing or pursued by Mat Busby, Kendra Connor, and Vincent Forcier. “Everybody dance! In THIS corner!” BUY TICKETS NOW!
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