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Tango Co. announces the return to Toronto of award-winning young playwright Daniel Karasik’s hit play The Innocents, after triumphant performances off-Broadway and in Mainz, Germany. Karasik is the Grand Prize winner of the 2012 CBC Literary Award for Fiction and the 2011 Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award.
Previewing Thursday, April 26, opening Friday, April 27, and running until Sunday, May 13 at the Tarragon Theatre Studio, The Innocents, directed by rising star Jordan Tannahill, is a sexy, darkly funny exploration of youth, ambition, and desire that played to acclaim in a workshop production at Toronto’s 2010 SummerWorks Theatre Festival, where Plank Magazine called it “the most refreshing take on the 'quarter-life crisis' to hit Toronto in ages.”
Stanley Birnbaum, 25-year-old wunderkind lawyer, has a bewildering new client: a bright young man from the suburbs who’s confessed to a senseless murder. As Stanley is drawn deeper into his troubled client’s life, everything he believes about his place in the world is thrown into doubt. And his own life—enviable, seemingly perfect—starts to fracture…
In September 2011, The Innocents received its mainstage world premiere in German translation at the prestigious Staatstheater Mainz in Mainz, Germany, where it continues to play in repertory to sold-out houses. The German press raves about the play, lauding it as both “great theatrical entertainment” (Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung) and “a finely woven psychological portrait of a young generation growing up with the belief that they can achieve anything, yet desperately looking for their place in an affluent society on turbo drive.” (Theatreheute)
The Toronto homecoming of The Innocents features a new version of the play, developed with assistance from Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and The Bridge Theatre Company in New York City, who mounted a workshop of it in Spring 2011 with director Ian Morgan, Associate Artistic Director of NYC’s Tony Award-winning The New Group.
Tango Co., which supports this production of the Innocents Collective, is a professional Toronto-based theatre company devoted to bringing fresh narrative drama of the highest calibre to Canadian audiences, with a particular emphasis on developing, producing, and promoting Canadian playwrights and nurturing the individual playwriting voice. Our past triumphs include the Jury Prize-winning In Full Light at the 2007 SummerWorks Theatre Festival and 2009’s The Crossing Guard, recently published by Playwrights Canada Press.
2012-04-12
Toronto: Tango Co. announces the return to Toronto of “The Innocents” April 26-May 13