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Toronto, December 4th, 2012 – Crow’s Theatre in association with Canadian Stage present Someone Else, a raucous dark comedy from the team behind the beloved and multi-‐award winning show I, Claudia, director Chris Abraham and actor/playwright Kristen Thomson.
Cathy (Thomson) is a stand up comedian in a creative slump and Peter (Tom Rooney) is a doctor at a community clinic. They’ve been married for eighteen years, but it feels like five hundred and couples therapy isn’t helping. Confronting an uncertain future and an unexcavated past, they seem bound for heartache when an intimate and sobering encounter with someone else forces them to recognize the fragile foundations that their life is built on. Careening between hilarity and disaster, Someone Else is a naked examination of marriage, middle age, and the delicate nature of change.
Someone Else stars the incomparable Thomson alongside Stratford Festival regular and Gemini-‐ nominee Tom Rooney (Twelfth Night, Courageous, “This Is Wonderland”), with Dora winner Damien Atkins (The Clockmaker, Geometry in Venice, Take This Waltz), Bahia Watson (The Penelopiad, A Raisin In The Sun), and Nina Taylor (Iphigenia). Someone Else will run in Toronto from Monday, January 7th to Saturday, February 2nd at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley St.). Tickets from $22 to $49 are available by phone at 416-‐368-‐3110, online at www.crowstheatre.com or in person at the box office.
“Kristen Thomson is undoubtedly one of Canada’s most remarkable and well-‐loved theatrical voices,” comments Crow’s Theatre’s Artistic Director Chris Abraham. “Over the years of our partnership, she has amazed me with her unique ability to find beauty, humour, and heartbreak in lives of her characters.
Reflecting on their partnership, Thomson adds, “Chris is always looking for the human truth and breath of life in the work he does. It makes him a lively, fun, and challenging collaborator. He’s been an invaluable partner to me since the beginning of our work together.”
“This latest work is really the third in a trilogy of plays that look at the pivotal stages of life, and the connection between loss and transformation at each,” Abraham continues. “I, Claudia gave us a window into the fragile moment of an adolescent’s coming of age in the shadow of her parents’ divorce. Her second piece, The Patient Hour, looked at the transformative process of preparing to die and contending with the loss of a parent. Someone Else now looks at marriage and middle age, which Philosopher Roland Barthes, described as the time in our lives that we enter "with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve as before."
Someone Else reunites Abraham and Thomson with set and costume designer Julie Fox (I, Claudia, The Patient Hour, Geometry in Venice). Kim Purtell (The Little Years, The Normal Heart) provides lighting design and Thomas Ryder Payne (The Little Years, The Small Room At The Top Of The Stairs) sound design.
Crow’s Theatre in association with Canadian Stage present Someone Else at the Berkeley Street theatre (26 Berkeley St.) from Monday, January 7th to Saturday, February 2nd. Tickets from $22 to $49 are available by phone at 416-‐368-‐3110, online at www.crowstheatre.com or www.canadianstage.com, or in person at the box office.
Photo: Kristen Thomson on the poster for Someone Else. ©2012 Crow’s Theatre.
2012-12-05
Toronto: Crow’s Theatre and Canadian Stage present Kristen Thomson’s latest play “Someone Else”