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For their second show of the 2017 season, Seven Siblings Theatre is pleased to present The Play About the Baby, one of Edward Albee's most daring black comedies. Produced in Toronto for the first time, The Play About the Baby is funny, mysterious, intimate, and disturbing.
A young couple has just had a baby. They are madly in love, and have the perfect life. Their bliss is suddenly interrupted when they are visited by an older man and woman. A truly strange turn of events transpires, setting off an evening of manipulations and mind games that ultimately question reality.
Fueled by Albee’s trademark wit, driving pace, and illuminating language, The Play About the Baby may be Seven Siblings Theatre’s most challenging play yet.
Praise for The Play About the Baby:
“Delightful and disturbing… ‘Baby’ rockets into that special corner of theatre heaven where words shoot off like fireworks into dazzling patterns and hues. This funny, harrowing dramatic fable… is as explicit and concise a statement of what Mr. Albee believes as he is ever likely to deliver. A cosmic vaudeville, in which two old pros in this old world teach a pair of untried tyros just how bleak and dangerous the universe can be.” – The New York Times
Praise for Seven Siblings Theatre:
“Toronto would be a much poorer place if it did not have adventurous small companies like Seven Siblings willing to stage a play like Mercury Fur, and stage it so well”-Stage Door
Seven Siblings Theatre presents:
The Play About the Baby
Written by Edward Albee
Directed by Erika Downie
Featuring Scott McCulloch, Judith Cockman, Will King, Nora Smith
Stage Managed by Emma Miziolek
Set Design by Stephen King
Produced by Madryn McCabe
Performances and Ticket Information
May 12 8:00pm (Opening Night)
May 13 8:00pm
May 14 8:00pm
May 17 8:00pm
May 18 8:00pm
May 19 8:00pm
May 20 2:00pm
May 20 8:00pm
May 21 8:00pm
May 12-14, Artsworkers $15, General $20
May 17-21 Artsworkers $20, General $25
Venue:
The Rhino
1249 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1L5
Tickets: http://www.sevensiblingstheatre.ca/the-play-about-the-baby/
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This production is engaged under a CAEA Artist Collective Policy.
Photo: Edward Albee. ©2009 Kevin Clark.
2017-04-23
Toronto: Seven Siblings Theatre presents Edward Albee's "The Play About the Baby" May 12-21