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ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK — billed as a “docu-fantasy radio play”— tells the unbelievable and mostly true story of Welles’s many attempts to play Shakespeare’s Shylock … and the haunting and heartbreaking ways his life overlapped with the iconic character just out of his reach. Syracuse-based theatre company The Shylock Project presents the Canadian Premiere of ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK by Matt Chiorini at The Factory Studio Theatre from July 1-10 as part of the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival. Tickets are available beginning June 9 via www.fringetoronto.com, by phone at 416-966-1062 ext. 1, or at the door.
Featuring three male actors (including Chiorini himself) — each playing Welles at a particular stage of his life — and one female actor playing Welles’ mother, wives, and longtime mistress/collaborator Oja Kodar, the production is an actors’ playground of comedy and tragedy, fact and fantasy. The four performers bring to life the characters (real and imaginary) in Welles’ world as the play leaps decades and locations in the way only radio can. Highly theatrical in its staging, use of sound, movement, and projection, ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK is a celebration of a remarkable (and remarkably frustrating) maverick genius who fought and paid the price for his uncompromising artistic vision.
Endlessly entertaining, Chiorini's ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK takes [you] on
a roller-coaster ride through time, space, and the mind of Orson Welles…
a tour de force of writerly imagination and performance”
~ Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies, University of Warwick
“ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK will leave you satisfied, sad, and a little breathless.
~ Todd Olson, Executive Director, Columbia Festival of the Arts
The Shylock Project is a theatre company formed in 2014 in Syracuse, New York. Created to perform Orson Welles/Shylock at a month-long Merchant of Venice conference in Italy celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto, the company has since performed the play in New York at the Redhouse Arts Center and Le Moyne College, and in Maryland at the Columbia Festival of the Arts. The Shylock Project has been featured in several articles on Wellesnet.com, the international Orson Welles web resource. Keep up to date with all the company activities at www.orsonwellesshylock.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/orsonwellesshylock
ORSON WELLES/SHYLOCK
Venue: Factory Theatre Studio,
125 Bathurst St (Corner of Bathurst & Adelaide — Map)
Wheelchair Accessible/Air Conditioned
Dates: Fri 1 July @ 4:45pm
Sun 3 July @ 8:15pm
Mon 4 July @ 10:30pm
Wed 6 July @ 12:00 Noon
Thu 7 July @ 4:00pm
Sat 9 July @ 7:30pm
Sun 10 July @ 12:00 Noon
Tickets:
$12 ($10 + $2 service fee) at the Door (Door sales cash only)
or in Advance via telephone or online.
Festival Passes:
5 Show Pass ($45)
10 Show Pass ($85)
Tickets available beginning June 9 via www.fringetoronto.com or 416-966-1062 ext. 1
Please note there is absolutely no latecomer seating.
Running time is 70 Minutes
2016-05-28
Fringe: Orson Welles / Shylock