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“Mayhem!” Now that Theatre Erindale is 21 years old, the company is ready to raise a little heck! The Dictionary of Canadian English defines mayhem as “confusion and willful violence; injuring a person so that he is less able to defend himself.” Yes, all of that. But what it leaves out is FUN! So for its 2012-2013 season, the company is promising a wild ride!
The season features the Canadian Première of a Noël Coward play, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 with the world’s first play about its women, and supplies bard-lovers with a unparalleled overdose: screwed-up Shakespeare, comic Shakespeare, and tragic Shakespeare – all in one season!
All of the offerings this year reflect the theme. The claws in Coward’s Semi-Monde – set in the Paris Ritz in the 1920s – may be sheathed in velvet, but they draw blood nonetheless; it’s a comedy of bad manners that climaxes with a gunshot. And speaking of gunshots, the women who star in the collectively adapted world première about the War of 1812 – In the Midst of Alarms, from the book by Dianne Graves – heard a lot more than one, and fired off a volley or three themselves! And the Beck Festival of one-act Independent Student Productions in December is always an adventure.
Then to launch the New Year, the company guarantees you’ve never seen a disaster as hilarious as the one perpetrated by the ladies of Farndale Avenue. This British little theatre drama festival production of ‘the Scottish play’ is a side-splitting massacre! The chaos that follows in Shakespeare’s beloved Dream for the lovers, the would-be thespians, and even the fairies in the woods on Midsummer’s Eve has never been equalled. And then at last it’s back to the battlefield, with Shakespeare’s blackest, shortest, and most exciting tragedy: Macbeth.
With construction starting on new rehearsal facilities (due to open in 2014), there will even be some mayhem on the doorstep! Though parking will be unaffected, patrons are asked to check for the latest info on passenger drop-off and ticket pick-up. And for the first time ever, the January mainstage production (Farndale) will be mounted in the MiST Theatre in the CCT Building – the audience will get to park and be entertained under the same roof!
Theatre Erindale’s Twentieth Anniversary season last year set new records both for attendance and for acclaim. The grads of the Sheridan-UTM Theatre and Drama Studies Program are starring on CBC and at Second City and Soulpepper, running theatre companies across the country, writing award-winning plays, and mentoring the next generation of young performers. Yet tickets will continue at the rock-bottom prices of $10-15, and Memberships – on sale in August – offer a 20% discount (or one show FREE!). Shows run Thursday to Sunday, and parking is just $6.00. For further information or a free colour brochure, call the box office at 905-569-4369 or visit www.theatreindale.com.
Theatre Erindale for 2012-2013: MAYHEM!
SEMI-MONDE
by Noël Coward, directed by Brian Mckay
The Canadian Première
OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 4, 2012
IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS
adapted by the Company from the book by Dianne Graves under the direction of Ralph Small
A Theatre Erindale World Première
NOVEMBER 15 – 25, 2012
THE BECK FESTIVAL
MiST Theatre DECEMBER 13 – 15, 2012
THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY’S PRODUCTION OF MACBETH
by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr, directed by Patrick Young
MiST Theatre JANUARY 24 – FEBRUARY 3, 2013
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
by William Shakespeare, directed by Sue Miner
FEBRUARY 14 – MARCH 3, 2013
MACBETH
by William Shakespeare, directed by Alan Dilworth
MARCH 14 – 24, 2013
Photo: Jack Morton, Adam Cresswell, Michelle Nash in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). ©2012 Jim Smagata.
2012-06-15
Oakville: Theatre Erindale announces its 2012/13 season