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Having earned universal critical acclaim for our unconventional take on Tennessee Williams' already unconventional The Two Character Play, Good Old Neon returns this February with a stage adaption of Dennis Potter's sensational teleplay, Blue Remembered Hills. The production is helmed by Good Old Neon co-founder Nicole Wilson (award-winning star of The Two-Character Play, Potosí, and Precisely Peter's critically lauded production of another Potter play, Brimstone and Treacle) in her directorial debut.
War is in the air. Across a landscape riven by famine, penury, and the scent of ash, seven "children" come out to play. They tease, argue, laugh, chase a squirrel; their innocence is tested as the play hurtles toward a climax as disturbing as it is commonplace. Set originally in England, 1943, Wilson has taken the play out of its historical context and turned it into an expressionistic fever-dream, a speculation on the nature of human interactions in a world pulled apart by hunger, civil strife, and the terrified impulses that give rise to Trumpism.
In a self-designed set void of colour, cold white like a blank canvas, Wilson's Blue Remembered Hills reinvigorates this older text and brings it out of its time - this is very much a production for Toronto, 2016, both hauntingly familiar and terrifyingly alien.
Blue Remembered Hills features an ensemble cast comprising the cutting-edge Toronto's film, television, and stage talent, including: Nicola Atkinson (co-artistic director of the critically acclaimed new work company Bad Hats Theatre), Michael David Blostein (Soup Can Theatre's Marat/Sade and the Summerworks cult hit I Am Very Far), Vince Deiulis (star of the Lower Ossington Theatre's It's a Wonderful Life: a Radio Play and veteran of the TYA troupe To Be Determined Theatre), Jeff Dingle (Single Thread's immersive Much Ado About Nothing and a mainstay performer with the puppet-Shakespeare troupe and Fringe favourites, Shakey-Shake and Co.), Hayden Finkelshtain (star of Seven Siblings Theatre's recent Titus Andronicus and lead voice actor with Skyship Entertainment), Ara Glenn-Johanson ( Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge at both The American Repertory Theater and The Magic Theater, as well as the award-winning international tour of This is All I Need with the San Francisco-based performance collective Mugwimpin), and Alexander Offord (co-founder of Good Old Neon, writer/director of the award-winning shows Potosí and The Hystericon).
Good Old Neon is a Toronto-based theatre performance company committed to investigating moral, political, and social paradoxes by integrating avant-garde aesthetics with traditional story telling.
Its core members are Alexander Offord (Co-Artistic Director) and Nicole Wilson (Co-Artistic Director). For more information about Good Old Neon's critically-acclaimed past shows and upcoming performances, please visit www.goodoldneon.ca
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Presents:
Blue Remembered Hills
Written by Dennis Potter
Directed & Designed by Nicole Wilson
Featuring: Nicola Atkinson, Michael David Blostein, Vince Deiulis, Jeff Dingle,
Hayden Finkelshtain, Ara Glenn-Johanson & Alexander Offord
Stage Managed by Kayla Bratton
Opens February 13th, 2017 runs to February 24th , 2017
at Artscape Youngplace, Studio 107, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto
Performances:
February 13th @ 8:00PM
February 15th @ 8:00PM
February 16th @ 8:00PM
February 17th @ 8:00PM
February 18th @ 5:30PM & 8:30PM
February 20th @ 8:00PM
February 22nd @ 8:00PM
February 23rd @ 8:00PM
February 24th @ 5:30PM & 8:30PM
Running time is approximately 90 minutes.
Ticket Prices: General Admission: $25
Arts Worker (first week only): $20
Student Rate: $15
Photo: Cast of Blue Remembered Hills. ©2017.
2017-01-10
Toronto: Good Old Neon presents "Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter February 13-28