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In 1993, Toronto playwright Dave Carley’s acclaimed comedy INTO premiered at the fledgling Toronto Fringe Festival to enthusiastic audiences, prompting an extended run the following year at Theatre Passe Muraille. The reviews were equally enthusiastic: “a must see” from The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star and “wickedly funny” from Eye Weekly.
This year’s production of INTO, with its impressive cast combining seasoned award-winning players and a remarkable fresh voice, promises to be just as well received as it was more than two decades ago.
Inspired by Argentinian author Julio Cortazar's short story, The Southern Thruway, INTO takes place during a magical traffic jam in which four very different commuters find themselves. As the hours stretch into days, and then to weeks, the four discover they must redefine their previous notions of community.
At the end of a long, hot summer's weekend, just outside the city limits, traffic slows and then stops. The inhabitants of the snarl begin to emerge from their cars. An urban nun has just returned from a backwoods conference that ended in a very cardinal sin. A sultry beauty from Montreal is fleeing a bad affair. A disaffected white youth is merely lost, and a businessman is trying to keep all his balls in the air. As the hours become days, and the days become weeks, this quartet forms an unlikely confederacy, one of many along the highway.
And then something begins to change on their horizon …
INTO by Dave Carley
Directed by Sue Miner
Starring DeAnn deGruijter (Nun), Jane Luk (Lucy), Walter Rinaldi (Businessman) and introducing Randy Baumer (Youth)
Stage Manager: Hilary Unger
Tarragon Theatre, Mainspace, 30 Bridgman Ave
Friday, July 1, 3:00 PM
Saturday, July 2, 1:45 PM
Sunday, July 3, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, July 5, 10:00 PM
Thursday, July 7, 3:30 PM
Friday, July 8, 2:00 PM
Sunday, July 10, 7:30 PM
Photo: DeAnn deGruijter and Randy Baumer.
2016-06-20
Fringe: INTO