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“Theatre Now” – Theatre Erindale’s first all-contemporary season, continues with a Pulitzer Prize/Tony/Olivier Award-winning modern classic, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park.
In two acts set 50 years apart, the past and current owners of 406 Clybourne Street are confronted by racial and cultural divisions. In both cases, a battle over the community takes place, pitting race against real estate with this home as the battlefield. Norris’s satire is a savage and funny ode to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a central work in the modern American dramatic canon and the first play by an African-American woman to be staged on Broadway.
For this production, Theatre Erindale is delighted to bring back recent Theatre and Drama Studies alumnus Cameron Grant to join students from this year’s graduating class. Straight from his first season at the Shaw Festival, he returns to Theatre Erindale before heading back to Shaw, where he will be performing in The Hound of Baskervilles and Henry V!
Clybourne Park is directed by Program Coordinator and Artistic Director David Matheson, who praises his cast: “These young actors have honoured a controversial and challenging script with grace, humour, maturity, and style.”
Show Information:
Clybourne Park will be running at the Erindale Studio Theatre at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Tickets available at: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/english-drama/subsite-feature-box/theatre-erindale/online-tickets, www.theatreerindale.com, by emailing the box office at boxoffice.utm@utoronto.ca, or by calling (905) 569-4369.
The show dates/ times are as follows:
Thursday, Feb. 1st @ 8:00
Friday, Feb. 2nd @ 8:00
Saturday, Feb. 3rd @ 2:00
Saturday, Feb. 3rd @ 8:00
Sunday, Feb. 4th @ 2:00
Friday, Feb. 9th @ 8:00
Saturday, Feb. 10th @ 2:00
The Cast:
Albert/Kevin Cameron M. Grant
Betsy/Lindsey Jennifer Francis
Bev/Kathy Emily Clarke
Francine/Lena KhaRå Martin
Jim/Tom Peter Moceri
Kenneth Joshua Sidlofsky
Karl/Steve Michael Ruhs
Russ/Dan Jackson Watt-Bowers
Theatre and Drama Studies:
The Theatre and Drama Studies Specialist Program is a unique partnership in theatre training offered jointly by the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Students earn a two-year (equivalent) conservatory diploma in professional actor training from Sheridan while completing a BA Hons program focused on performance history, theory, and dramatic literature from UTM.
2018-01-25
Mississauga: Theatre Erindale presents Bruce Norris's "Clybourne Park" February 1-11