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Alex may or may not be dying. Confronted with his mortality, he searches for sex and connection in hotel bars — with his wife Brit’s conflicted blessing. LITTLE DEATH, the lyrical and spare new play by CBC Fiction Prize winner and Dora Award-nominated playwright Daniel Karasik, asks fundamental questions about marriage, fidelity, and the intimate needs of men and women. The production runs April 17 - May 3 at the Theatre Centre BMO Incubator. Tickets start at $15 and are available by phone at 416-538-0988, online at tickets.ticketwise.ca/event/LittleDeath, or in person at the Theatre Centre box office.
Karasik’s successful application piece to the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme in London, UK, LITTLE DEATH has since been developed at the Tarragon Theatre, Stratford Festival, the Yale School of Drama, and with off-Broadway's The New Group, which will also present a reading of it at New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Now back in Toronto for its first full production, LITTLE DEATH premieres as part of The RISER Project, a collaborative producing model presented by Why Not Theatre with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and Canadian Heritage. This production is made possible by lead supporting partner Koffler Centre of the Arts.
Influenced by the contemporary theatre aesthetics of England and Germany, LITTLE DEATH mixes a European emphasis on open, poetic writing with an all-star Canadian cast directed by Zachary Florence (Shaw Festival, SummerWorks 2014’s The Container). It features Shauna Black (five seasons at the Shaw Festival; Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Dream in High Park/Canadian Stage), Sarah Dodd (seven seasons at the Stratford Festival; The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Tarragon Theatre), Kate Hennig (Billy Elliot on Broadway; series regular on TMN's Bomb Girls; playwright of The Last Wife at the Stratford Festival this season), Christopher Stanton (Possible Worlds, Talk Is Free Theatre/BeMeTheatre Munich; Assassins, TIFT/Birdland/Manitoba Theatre Centre), Nicole Underhay (seven seasons at the Shaw Festival; The Shipping News, Miramax Pictures; The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Tarragon Theatre), and introduces talented newcomer Elizabeth Tanner (Nightwood Theatre's Young Innovators Lab; The Seagull, Upstart Theatre; Moscow Art Theatre School).
Lighting design is by Dora Award winner Andre du Toit (Outstanding Lighting Design, The Double, Bad New Days). Set & costume design are by Dora Award nominee Jenna McCutchen (Oregano, Theatre Rhea). Sound design is by Lyon Smith (Venus in Fur, Canadian Stage). Choreography is by Dora Award winner Monica Dottor (Outstanding Choreography nom., The Penelopiad, Nightwood Theatre). The stage manager is Tamara Vuckovic (The Biographer, Tango Co.).
Daniel Karasik is a recent winner of the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award and the CBC Literary Award for Fiction. His plays have been produced across Canada, in the United States, and frequently in translation in Germany; his most recent Toronto production, The Biographer, garnered a Dora Award nomination for Outstanding New Play in 2013. He will be playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre as of the 15/16 theatre season.
Performance Information for LITTLE DEATH
Venue: Theatre Centre BMO Incubator (1115 Queen St. West, Toronto)
Dates: April 18 – May 3 (Preview April 17)
Tues- Sunday @ 9pm, additional matinees Apr 19, May 2 & 3 @ 3pm,
and April 25 @ 4pm.
Tickets: $15-$30 via tickets.ticketwise.ca/event/LittleDeath, at 416-538-0988, or in person at the box office
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Photo: Nicole Underhay and Christopher Stanton. ©2015 Emily Lockhart.
2015-03-17
Toronto: The world premiere of Daniel Karasik's "Little Death" plays April 17-May 3