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Toronto, ON –Inspired by the Jian Ghomeshi scandal and as topical as this morning’s Huffington Post article, Cue6 theatre’s new play We Three takes on what it is to be a woman of the #yesallwomen, ‘bitches be crazy’, 4th wave feminism, generation. Written by Cue6 co-founder and resident playwright Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman (Pieces), directed by co-founder and Artistic Director Jill Harper (pool (no water); Byhalia, Mississippi) and featuring Hallie Burt (Elizabeth/Darcy- Burt and Werneburg), Suzette McCanny (The Skryker- Red One Theatre Collective) and Sarah Naomi Campbell (The Winter’s Tale- Leroy Street Theatre) We Three runs April 3rd-17th at the Tarragon Theatre’s Workspace.
A feminist blogger and an alternative education PhD candidate, Jamie and Skye respectively, have been best friends and roommates since university. When the third member of their triumvirate, Blaire, visits Toronto for a conference after 2 years in Calgary they all hope for a night that will make them feel nothing has changed. This bubble is quickly burst however with the introduction of the newest addition in Blaire’s life: her breast implants. Toronto audiences will fall into the world of these three best friends, where the mundane is as important as the immense, where tragedy can become comedy, and where no topic is off limits.
We Three marks Cue6’s first foray into the play creation methodology of Chicago’s award winning company, The New Colony. Cue6 has previously partnered with The New Colony to bring audiences the Canadian premiere of Kate And Sam Are NOT Breaking Up (Dora Nomination Best Individual Performance - Rebecca Liddiard) and then again to participate in the international world premiere of Byhalia, Mississippi. Playwright Illiatovitch-Goldman says she was excited to take on this new process. “I’ve trained with The New Colony as an observer in their play development workshops and as a participant in their ‘writers room’ program. It is a fascinating way of devising naturalism which allowed me insight to real people in real moments, ultimately creating characters and arguments as complex and varied as the people around us.”
We Three is made possible through the generous support of Tarragon Theatre’s Workspace.
Cue6 Theatre in association with Tarragon Theatre’s Workspace presents
We Three
Featuring: Suzette McCanny, Sarah Naomi Campbell, and Hallie Burt
Written by: Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman with contributions by Jill Harper, Suzette McCanny, Sarah Naomi Campbell, and Hallie Burt
Directed by: Jill Harper
Set Design: Christine Groom
Lighting Design: Simon Rossiter
Sound Design: Tim Lindsay
Stage Management: Beth Beardsley
Runs April 3rd to the 17th
Tarragon Theatre Workspace – 30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto
Preview Performances:
April 3rd @ 2:30pm
April 5th @ 8pm
April 6th @ 8pm
Opening Night:
April 7th @8pm
Regular Run:
April 8th- 17th Thursday through Saturday @8pm
Wednesday matinees at 1:30pm and Sunday matinees @ 2:30pm
Tickets: $17-$37
Advance tickets available online at tarragontheatre.com
By phone through Tarragon Theatre: (416) 531-1827
In person at Tarragon Theatre (30 Bridgman Ave)
For Media Tickets: christine.groom@cue6.ca
About Cue6: Led by Artistic Director Jill Harper, and General Manager Christine Groom, Cue6 is a small theatre company dedicated to creating provocative and emotionally truthful productions with a focus on developing new work and premiering exciting productions from local and international artists. Past projects include; Byhalia, Mississippi (it's sold out January run was part of a 7-city simultaneous ‘World Premiere Conversation’), pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill, (Best of the Toronto Fringe 2015, Best Production Nomination –Broadway World, NNNN -- Now Magazine); The New Colony's Kate and Sam Are Not Breaking Up (Dora Nomination Best Individual Performance - Rebecca Liddiard, NNNN -- Now Magazine); Pieces (featuring Rosemary Dunsmore, James Downing, and Allison Price); and The Guilty Party. Visit Cue6 on facebook (Cue6 Productions), twitter (@Cue6productions), or at cue6.ca.
About the Playwright – Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman is a playwright from Toronto who now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. For Cue6 plays include: Pieces (RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwright Award finalist) and The Guilty Party. Other plays include: Mirror Me (Project: Humanity), The Apartment Trilogy (Sound It Out Festival) Hospital (Sketchbook Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival) The War Photographer (Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference semi-finalist) This Is Not A Cure For Cancer (Collaboraction Theatre Company) and Crime Scene Chicago: Let Hope Rise (Collaboraction Theatre Company). Sarah teaches playwriting at the University of Illinois in Chicago and is on the literary team at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the world premiere of Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe.
About the Director – Jill Harper is a Toronto-based theatre director and filmmaker and the co-founder of Cue6 Theatre. Selected Cue6 directing credits: Byhalia, Mississippi (as a part of a 7-city World Premiere Conversation), pool (no water) (Best of Fringe, 2015), Kate and Sam Are Not Breaking Up (for which actor Rebecca Liddiard was nominated for a Dora Award), and Pieces. Elsewhere: Cottage Radio (The Cottage Radio Collective), The Fox Sisters (The Quickening Theatre), Twelfth Night and Macbeth (The Classical Theatre Project). Short films include This December and and Waffles.
About Tarragon Theatre’s Workspace – Workspace seeks to be a centre for experimentation, exploration, and extensive play development for not only Tarragon, but independent artists, collectives, and theatre companies. Tarragon’s upgraded Near Studio is generously donated to independent artists and companies as a creation space to develop work and/or offer public presentations and performances. Other Workspace projects include Pyretic Production’s The Particulars, ZOU theatre company’s The Painted Bird, and Late Company produced by Why Not Theatre.
2016-03-21
Toronto: Cue6 Theatre presents the world premiere of "We Three" April 3-17