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Driftwood Theatre is proud to share a workshop reading of MEMORIAL by Steven Gallagher, winner of the 2011 Trafalgar 24 play-creation festival. The reading begins at 7pm on January 28, 2012, at the Alumnae Theatre Studio Space. Admission is Pay-What-You-Can.
A dying man prepares his own funeral and plans to attend: “There comes a point in everyone’s life when they have to choose how they want to be remembered. Today is that day.” MEMORIAL is a play about meeting death, on your own terms. Directed by D. Jeremy Smith, with dramaturgy by Toby Malone, MEMORIAL features performers Mark Crawford, Helen King, and Peter van Gestel.
“Right now, with all of you here, I am the happiest I have ever been. Right now, seeing all of you here in front of me, this is the best memory of my life.”
MEMORIAL was first developed as part of Driftwood Theatre’s Trafalgar 24 play-creation festival and is the inaugural Beyond the Castle project. Trafalgar 24 is a juried festival in which a group of playwrights, directors, and performers are locked in a castle with only 24 hours to write, rehearse, and present their work. One of the plays created for the festival is then selected for further development as part of Driftwood’s new-play development program, Beyond the Castle. Gallagher’s MEMORIAL was selected from among six plays by a jury of theatre professionals, critics, and audience members at Trafalgar 24, 2011.
Steven Gallagher has written for Trafalgar 24 twice, with the short plays Rules By Agnes and MEMORIAL. Gallagher’s play All Out was chosen "Best of Fringe" at the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival. His acting credits include: La Cage aux Folles (Neptune, upcoming); Amelia: The Girl Who Wants To Fly (GCTC); Urinetown, The Rocky Horror Show, A Midsummer Night's Dream, It's a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage); Elegies, A New Brain (Acting Upstage); King Lear, Comedy Of Errors (Driftwood). Steven Gallagher is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Driftwood Theatre is a company dedicated to sharing classic stories, taking as inspiration not only the works of William Shakespeare but also the many playwrights both past and present whose work shares the same classic quality. Their goal is to tell the best stories and to tell them honestly. Driftwood’s Bard’s Bus Tour has been bringing accessible outdoor theatre to communities across Ontario since 1995. For more information, please visit www.driftwoodtheatre.com.
Show information for MEMORIAL:
Venue: Alumnae Theatre Studio Space
70 Berkeley Street, Toronto
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 7pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can
2012-01-25
Toronto: Driftwood Theatre presents a staged reading of “Memorial” by Stephen Gallagher January 28