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After a successful run of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and The Deep Blue Sea, director Sophie Ann Rooney (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective & Acting Coach) switches gear to direct this sensational, hard hitting play. Alongside her is Assistant Director Ashton Doudelet (The Keeper’s Secret, Warehouse 13) who only nine months ago suffered a stroke at the age 23.
Rising television star and critically acclaimed theatre actor Carleigh Beverly (2013 Gemini nominated Mudpit, The Keeper’s Secret, SSTC’s Echoes) and west coast’s theatre actor Adam Lolacher (The Belfry’s production of A Christmas Carol) join Angela Besharah (Lost Girl, Haven, The Kennedys and Theatre Passe Muraille’s Little Dragon) and Adrian .G. Griffiths (Copper, Flashpoint, Nikita), alongside powerful new comer’s Mike Lipka (Heart (Heart in Hand Theatre’s Cowboy Mouth) Candice Mausner (Hunting Season) David Greig (Central School of Speech & Drama) and Taylor Whittaker (from the band UKAE) with Katelyn Wallace (Jeremiah) in a performance that will hold audiences at the edge of their seats.
Ms. Gilman became the first American to receive the Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright in England and was named a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for The Glory of Living. New York saw a production directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman in October 2001 that starred Oscar winner Anna Paquin in the title role.
Set in the deep rural south this play follows Lisa (Carleigh Beverly) a troubled teen as she runs away with a much older Clint (Adam Lolacher), to escape the misery of life with her prostitute mother (Angela Besharah).
Lisa's white-picket-fence dream with Clint never materializes instead she is to procure young runaways like Kelly (Candice Mausner) and Carol (Katelyn Wallace) for him. What happens next is a gruesome mess.
Arresting officer (Taylor Whittaker) and Detective Burrows (David Greig) try to unravel this mystery with their only witness's story, Carol's boyfriend, Steve (Mike Lipka) who survived a certain violent death at the hands of this deadly duo. Carl (Adrian G Griffiths), Lisa's lawyer, provides her with the safe place to talk and find solace.
The playwright insists this play is not based on anything concrete but one cannot help but find the similarities between the true story of Judith Ann Neelley and Alvin Neelley, one of Americas most notorious couple serial killers. When the play goes up in February 2013 Judith Ann Neelley will be up for parole, this is one of the main reasons for choosing this play; to continue the discussion on crime, punishment, gun law and education in North America.
THE GLORY OF LIVING
By Rebecca Gilman
February 19th – March 2nd 2013
8PM (Mondays Dark)
Tuesdays $10. Shows $20
Sterling Studio Theatre
163 Sterling Road, Unit 5 North Alley Entrance.
For More information visit us at www.sterlingstudiotheatre.com
2013-01-22
Toronto: Nightrider Co-op presents Rebecca Gilman’s “The Glory of Living” February 19-March 2