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Salon: Ten years of Toronto Masque Theatre -- a retrospective
Join us for the first in our salon series exploring the history of Toronto Masque Theatre and the masque as a traditional and still evolving art form. Artistic Director Larry Beckwith and special guests will paint a vivid portrait of the company's first decade of wide-ranging programming, including discussions about casting, design, how we commission artists and research our programs.
Hosted and sponsored by Toronto Masque Theatre patrons Walter and Marina Unger, the evening will feature dramatic and musical entertainment, including performances by soprano Teri Dunn, lutenist Lucas Harris and others. Food and drink will also be provided.
Come celebrate with us and take a look behind the scenes at TMT.
Our second salon is scheduled to take place in March of next year.
What Salon: Ten years of Toronto Masque Theatre -- a retrospective
When Monday September 30, 2013, 7:30 pm
Where 21 Shaftesbury Avenue, Toronto @ Summerhill Subway
How Tickets: by donation ($20 suggested). Register through Toronto Masque Theatre website or phone 416 410 4561
Who For more information on Toronto Masque Theatre please go to our website
About Toronto Masque Theatre
Toronto Masque Theatre was founded by Artistic Director Larry Beckwith in 2003 and immediately became a significant player in the City of Toronto’s arts scene. Now about to celebrate its 10th anniversary, Toronto Masque Theatre has produced close to over 30 critically-acclaimed multi-media productions, ranging in repertoire from the late Renaissance to the modern day. They have commissioned six new works, two from James Rolfe and one each from Omar Daniel, Abigail Richardson, Dean Burry and Alice Ping Yee Ho, as well as presenting music theatre works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Stravinsky and John Beckwith, plays by Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Reaney, Patrick Garland, and Moliere and "variety" evenings including Commedia, Tears of a Clown, and Masque of the Muses.
Toronto Masque Theatre’s 2013 commission, The Lesson of Da Ji by composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and librettist Marjorie Chan was awarded the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical/Opera.
The company takes as its inspiration the rich courtly masque tradition of the late Renaissance and offers clever, intimate, and highly entertaining productions which fuse different aspects of the performing arts. Both historically informed and daringly modern, with each program Toronto Masque Theatre manages to surprise, move, and delight in new and brilliant ways.
Photo: Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière. ©2012.
2013-08-06
Toronto: Toronto Masque Theatre announces its first salon of the season for September 30