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Pea Green Theatre Group is very excited to announce that our 2014 Toronto Fringe and Best of the Fringe hit Three Men in a Boat will be travelling to the Literature Live Festival in Mumbai, India for three performances at the TATA National Centre of Performing Arts in early November 2014. The yearly Mumbai Litfest celebrates writers, books, and performers on an international scale. http://www.litlive.in/ Three cheers to our cast and crew!
Three Men in a Boat is our stage adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's classic 1889 British travelogue. Adapted for the stage by Dora award winning playwright Mark Brownell. Directed by award-winning director Sue Miner. Featuring the outstanding onstage talents of Matt Pilipiak, Scott Garland, and Victor Pokinko. Jolly Victorian Boating Song arranged by Rigzin J. Tute. Period costumes by Nina Okens. Stage Management by Hilary Unger.
NOW Magazine
“This enchanting show, based on English writer Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 travelogue and adapted for the stage by Mark Brownell, is the witty account of three friends and a dog who take a boating holiday along the Thames and encounter hilarious, often self-imposed obstacles. Actors Matt Pilipiak, Victor Pokinko and Scott Garland go beyond the eccentricities of the period to define their individual characters amidst squabbles, anxieties and parochial viewpoints. All theatrical elements - Nina Okens's meticulous costumes (with especially wonderful shoes), lighting, props and J. Rigzin Tute's whimsical musical arrangements - come together beautifully under Sue Miner's superb direction.”
Highly Recommended – The Toronto Star
“This is the most charming show to come out of the Fringe this year. Three English gentlemen of leisure decide to go on a boating trip down the Thames. Predictably, as none possess anything resembling useful skills, they run aground into disaster. The accents are impeccable, as are the performances. The actors fire off two hours’ worth of dialogue in one, with every word crystal clear. That deserves three cheers all on its own.”
CHOSEN BEST OF THE TORONTO FRINGE by Mooney on Theatre, NOW Magazine (Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Designer), In the Green Room, The Torontoist, and BlogTO.
The Pea Green Theatre Group (www.peagreentheatre.com)
Established in 1988 by Mark Brownell and Sue Miner, Pea Green is committed to bringing a wide variety of stories and characters to appreciative audiences across Canada. Featuring a highly stylized physical language, Pea Green shows have a reputation for being at once thought provoking and highly entertaining. In 1998 the company was incorporated not-for-profit as the Pea Green Theatre Group. Since that time, Pea Green has received fifteen Dora Mavor Moore nominations.
2014-09-17
Toronto: Pea Green Theatre Group takes its Fringe hit “Three Men in a Boat” to Mumbai, India