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What do you get when you take themes and characters from Anton Chekhov’s most famous works and throw them into a blender? Christopher Durang serves up the perfect cocktail to welcome spring (if it ever comes) with his hilarious Tony Award-winning comedy VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, playing March 14th - April 5th, 2015 at the Panasonic Theatre as the final show in the Off-Mirvish 2015-16 season.
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE stars Steven Sutcliffe as Vanya, Fiona Reid as Sonia, Jennifer Dale as Masha, Luke Humphrey as Spike, Ellen Denny as Nina and Audrey Dwyer as Cassandra.
A co-production with the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE opened to rave reviews on February 12th in Winnipeg.
“Hilarious farce …. An uplifting laughfest. Director Dean Paul Gibson finds the right balance of big laughs among the emotional insecurities that are the basis of this coming-of-age-at-middle-age story.” - Kevin Prokosh, Winnipeg Free Press
“Anton Chekhov by way of Monty Python - tragic melancholy and yearning sadness made into comedy through preposterous silliness.” - Joff Schmidt, CBC News Winnipeg
“An ebullient, outlandish, gut-busting rendition of a Tony-award winning play. Fiona Reid's turn as Sonia is brilliant but her turn as Sonia as “Maggie Smith on her way to the Oscars” is unmissable. It might be among the best things I have ever seen on stage." - Katie Nicholson, pepperandvine.com
In this contemporary mash-up of Chekhov plays that took Broadway by storm last year, siblings Vanya and Sonia are left with little but each other after sacrificing their adult lives to care for their ailing parents. But when their sister Masha, an aging actress, arrives with unsettling news and her twenty-something boy toy Spike in tow, their static lives are thrown for a loop.
The creative team includes Director Dean Paul Gibson, Set & Costume Designer Sue LePage, Lighting Designer Scott Henderson, Sound Designer Peter McBoyle, Assistant Director CindyMarie Small, Stage Manager Erin Fitzgerald, Assistant Stage Manager Melissa Novecosky.
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE
March 14 - April 5, 2015
Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge Street,
Toronto
Performance Schedule:
Tuesdays - Saturday at 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM
Added Sunday evenings on March 22 and 29, at 7:30 PM. Added Wednesday matinee on April 1, at 2:00 PM
Tickets: $19 - $99
Ticketking 416-872-1212 or 1-800-461-3333
Online Ticket Sales www.mirvish.com
Groups of 12 or more 416-593-4142
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Photo: Luke Humphrey.
2015-02-24
Toronto: Mirvish presents "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" March 4-April 5