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The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (University of Toronto) and Poculi Ludique Societas are pleased to join together again to present Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turk, originally written and staged in 1612. The Studio Theatre will be the scene for an action-packed story about religious conversion and pirates, (complete with naval battles), kidnapping, slave trading, seduction, disguises, betrayals, mutinies, intrigues, clowns, and a surprising range of murders!
A Christian Turn’d Turk follows the (mostly true) story of John Ward, an English sailor who became a popular hero by turning to piracy, and then becoming a figure of national scandal by turning to Islam. The play is a polemic against conversion, filled with fascinating and problematic representations of foreign cultures, religions, and practices, all of which reveal a great deal about the sense of an English identity in development through and against concepts of otherness and foreignness. It is a case study for questions of identity, be they cultural, national, religious, sexual, economic, or any of the above.
Director Noam Lior and design team Linda Phillips (Costumes) and Paul J. Stoesser (Scenic and Lighting Design) return again this year and are joined by Fight Choreographer Casey Hudecki and Sound Designer Robert LaRonde. The cast features Bil Antoniou, Alan Bee, Sarah Cody, Robbie Grant, Matthew Gin, Robert LaRonde, Luke Marty, Peter McArthur, Peter McLaren, Tom McGee, Gord Noel, Madeleine Redican , Mark Rochford, Daina Valiulis and Kristen Zaza.
This production is sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Program for the Arts and is co-presented with the Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies; it is presented in conjunction with the conference Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, & Religious Refugees, 1400-1700 (April 19-21).
A Christian Turn’d Turk
April 19-22, 2012
Thu- Sat at 8pm Sun at 2pm
$20 Reg/ $15 Sen/ $10 Stu
416-978-7986
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~plspls/index.html
http://www.crrs.ca/events/conferences/migrations/
Illustration: John Ward’s Ship Engages a British Vessel.
2012-04-05
Toronto: Poculi Ludique Societas offers a rare chance to see “A Christian Turn’d Turk” from 1612