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Winner of the inaugural Second City Award for Outstanding New Comedy, The Philanderess is back! After a sold-out run at the 2015 Toronto Fringe, the original cast and creative team are restaging this modern farce for two performances on The Second City Toronto Main Stage:
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 at 10:30pm
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 at 10:15pm
Fringe highlights include:
•NNNNN - “Sophia Fabiilli brilliantly adapts George Bernard Shaw’s play for the 21st century…A comical, feisty, and at times smoldering bedroom farce” (NOW Magazine)
•Outstanding New Play, Production, Ensemble, and Direction (NOW Magazine)
•The Second City Award for Outstanding New Comedy Award (Winner)
•Patron’s Pick (Winner, Annex Theatre)
•“The Philanderess is wonderful… a well-written, well-designed, and well-acted show that is a hilarious hour at the theatre” (Mooney on Theatre)
•“Sophia Fabiilli’s The Philanderess, a farcical adaptation of a Shaw classic (and her first play), enchanted audiences” (Torontoist)
Don't miss your second chance to spend a night with The Philanderess! The hilarious love triangle at the centre of G.B. Shaw’s The Philanderer is turned on its head in this modern bedroom farce, written by first time playwright Sophia Fabiilli. The Philanderess follows Charlotte, a young woman in an open relationship who chronicles her sexcapades on her wildly popular blog. Everything is swell for this fabulous feminist until one of her lovers crashes her life partner engagement party… along with his eccentric family for support.
MICHELLE ALEXANDER (Nightwood Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director) helms the production as director and dramaturg. SOPHIA FABIILLI (upcoming: The Howland Theatre Company's workshop production of Casimir and Caroline) stars as Charlotte alongside the three-time Dora Award Nominee JAKOB EHMAN (upcoming: Talk is Free Theatre's Gotcha and Theatre Passe Muraille's Caught) as her jealous lover, Jules. AMOS CRAWLEY (Murdoch Mysteries, Covert Affairs, Ready or Not, Billy Madison) completes the love triangle as Charlotte's dependable life-partner-fiancé, Grayson. DEBORAH TENNANT (The Sound of Music – Mirvish and Stratford) and SUZANNE BENNETT (Brantwood) square off as Jules and Grayson’s competitive and meddling mothers, with SETH DRABINSKY (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as Jules’ gay brother/wannabe therapist.
TRUTH‘n’LIES THEATRE presents
THE PHILANDERESS for two performances only!
THE SECOND CITY TORONTO MAIN STAGE
51 Mercer Street
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 10:30pm
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 10:15pm
BY: SOPHIA FABIILLI
DIRECTOR: MICHELLE ALEXANDER
CAST: SUZANNE BENNETT, AMOS CRAWLEY,
SETH DRABINSKY, JAKOB EHMAN,
SOPHIA FABIILLI, DEBORAH TENNANT
STAGE MANGER: LAURA PADUCH
DESIGNER: LAURA GARDNER
FIGHT DIRECTOR: NATE BITTON
Tickets:
$15 in advance; $18 at the door.
Purchase tickets online (http://www.secondcity.com/shows/toronto/the-philanderess/), by phone (416-343-0011), or in person at the Second City Box Office (51 Mercer Street, Toronto).
Photo: Sophia Fabiili. ©2015 Max Telzerow.
2015-09-22
Toronto: 2015 Fringe hit "The Philanderess" returns for two performances October 22 and 25