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Unit 102 Actor's Company proudly presents Stephen Adly Guirgis' cult classic Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train at Unit 102 Theatre in Toronto from January 31 - February 15. Tickets: $20 // Available at venue // Online: Ticketfly.com // Reservations: unit102tix@gmail.com // Show Info: www.unit102theatre.com
A stark and sobering examination of life, death, salvation, and what it takes to be a "good" person.
Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. In Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train Guirgis critically and hilariously examines the judicial system while he searchingly asks what it takes to be "good" and whether redemption is possible.
Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train
Director: David Lafontaine
Assistant Director: Martin Araneta
Performers: Tommie-Amber Pirie, Ronnie Rowe, Anthony Ulc, Andrew MQ, and Scott Walker. Art and Set Design: Adam Belanger
Costume Design: Lindsay Dagger Junkin
Unit 102 Actor's Company brings together a talented and energetic collective of artists under the direction of Canadian-born actor, writer and co-founder of Unit 102 Theatre Studio and Actor's Company David Lafontaine. Under Lafontaine's creative direction Unit 102 has appreciated great independent success and community support with the staging of contemporary, realist, American, dramas such as A Behanding in Spokane, In A Dark Dark House, Oleana, and The God Of Hell, to name few. With Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train, Lafontaine continues to shape the voice of Unit 102 Actor's Company while carving its niche in Toronto's independent theatre scene.
Praise for Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train
"...fire-breathing...[a] probing, intense portrait of lives behind bars...whenever it appears that JESUS is settling into familiar territory, it slides right beneath expectations into another, fresher direction. It has the courage of its intellectual restlessness...[JESUS HOPPED THE A TRAIN] has been written in flame." —
Ben Brantley, New York Times.
”Guirgis shifts time, point of view and tone so well.... his themes...intersect nicely without ever seeming
manipulative...an important play by an even more important writer.” - Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine
2014-01-20
Toronto: Unit 102 Actor's Company presents "Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train" January 31-February 15