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Cue6 Theatre, dedicated to introducing Toronto to intimate and challenging work from artists around the world, is pleased to announce their 2017/18 season. The season features the much sought-after revival of their 2015 Best of The Toronto Fringe hit, Mark Ravenhill’s pool (no water), and is followed by the Toronto premiere of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s provocative and vividly honest play Dry Land.
“Both plays investigate the complexities of friendships and the influences, both good and bad, that they can have on our lives,” says Cue6 Artistic Director Jill Harper. “Stylistically these two plays couldn’t be more different, but thematically they’re very much aligned. Both confront audiences with shattering, life-changing events, and then remind us that life continues despite them. It’s both an excruciating and a comforting thought.”
Cue6’s 2017/18 Season Details:
pool (no water) - Written by Mark Ravenhill
Directed by Jill Harper with Choreography by Patricia Allison
Returning September 27th-October 15th (Opens September 29th)
*Generously Supported by the Toronto Arts Council
When a famous artist invites her old friends to her luxurious pool, for one night the group is back together. But celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers a horrific accident. As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art?
Winner of the 2015 Best of the Toronto Fringe Festival, Cue6's production of pool (no water) will run at Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie's Citadel Theatre (304 Parliament St. Toronto, ON). Featuring a celebrated cast including Allison Price, Chy Ryan Spain, Daniel Roberts, Eva Barrie and Nickeshia Garrick.
For anyone who's ever felt the poisonous sting of jealousy, or the forbidden excitement of tragedy, Cue6 invites you to wade in the darkest waters of the human experience.
NNNN Fast-moving, intellectually and morally stimulating, and filled with angry humour, this show is going to be a Fringe hit. - Jon Kaplan, Now Magazine
★★★★ ½- The Torontoist
Dry Land - Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel
Directed by Jill Harper
Toronto Premiere May 2018
Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land is a play about abortion, female friendship, and resiliency, and what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left.
Making waves across the United States, Cue6 will produce the first Canadian professional production of this topical and hard-hitting new play.
“This portrait of an unlikely friendship under uncommon pressure is tender, caustic, funny and harrowing, often all at the same time.” —NY Times.
“Dry Land avoids Mean Girls clichés, turning familiar terrain into something new and vaguely scary.” —NY Post.
Tickets:
Advance Tickets are available for "pool (no water)" : $22-$35
Previews September 27th & 28th
Opens September 29th runs until October 15th
Performances at 8pm- except Sunday October 8th and Sunday October 15th both at 4pm
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie's Citadel Theatre (304 Parliament St.)
*Please note this venue is accessible.
Online at cue6.ca or by phone through Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006
"Dry Land" Ticket information COMING SOON
About Cue6 Theatre:
Cue6 develops new work and premieres provocative productions from local and international artists, triggering reflection one play at a time.
Past projects include We Three by Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman, which was developed by the company and produced as a part of the inaugural season of Tarragon Theatre’s Workspace Initiative. Byhalia, Mississippi, produced in January 2016 was part of a groundbreaking 7-city simultaneous ‘World Premiere Conversation’. Its sold-out run went on to be nominated for the DORA for Outstanding Performance – Claire Armstrong. pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill, premiered at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, and was named Best of the Toronto Fringe 2015. It was shortlisted by NOW Magazine amongst the best productions, ensembles and directors of the festival as well as being nominated for Best Production by Broadway World. Cue6’s 2014 production of The New Colony’s Kate and Sam Are Not Breaking Up received a DORA Nomination for Outstanding Performance – Rebecca Liddiard. In 2012 Illiatovitch-Goldman’s play Pieces starring Rosemary Dunsmore, stunned audiences with it unconventional structure. While the arc of the narrative stayed the same the order of the scenes were presented in random each night changing the characters’ emotional discoveries. The company’s first production, The Guilty Party, premiered as a part of Ryerson Theatre School’s New Voices Festival and went on to be independently produced by Cue6.
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2017-08-30
Toronto: Cue6 Theatre announces its 2017/18 season