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From November 20-24, 2018, the Living Arts Centre presents The Daisy Theatre by Ronnie Burkett in RBC Theatre. Tickets start at $40, and discounts are available for groups of ten or more (call the Box Office).
The Daisy Theatre is internationally acclaimed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett unleashed and unscripted by the seat of his pants, manipulating and voicing a cast of 40 marionette characters in variety acts, impromptu monologues, musical numbers and audience participation. This will be one of the last times that Ronnie Burkett performs The Daisy Theatre, and the absolute last chance for the GTA to experience “some of the funniest, most brilliant theatre you’ll ever be lucky enough to see.” (The Georgia Straight, Vancouver).
Audiences and critics alike have fallen in love with the ridiculous, tender, outrageous antics of Daisy Theatre characters such as Esme Massengill, Mrs. Edna Rural and beloved fairy child Schnitzel. Variety numbers parody theatrical genres from opera, music hall, Las Vegas, French cabaret and vaudeville with characters including lounge singer Rosemary Focaccia, marionette ventriloquist Meyer Lemon, chanteuse Jolie Jolie, and “Canada’s oldest and worst actress” Miss Lillian Lunkhead. Theatre Scenes (Auckland, New Zealand) says “It’s edgy, sleazy, perverted and at time hilariously horny…a mesmerising and hysterically funny show that the audience adores in spades… this is indeed the sexiest cabaret show…in a very long time.” With the ever-changing content and nightly improv, each performance will be different, daring and on the edge.
Captivated by puppetry since the age of seven and touring since he was only fourteen, Ronnie Burkett is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost theatre artists, creating some of the world’s most elaborate and provocative puppetry. He has received numerous awards in the Canadian theatre, including the 2009 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, The Herbert Whittaker Drama Bench Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Theatre, and international recognition including a Village Voice OBIE Award in New York for Off-Broadway Theatre, The GLAAD Award for Outstanding Theater, Broadway/Off-Broadway, and four Citations of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from the American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Coming soon in 2019, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes will premiere a new audience-interactive production, Forget Me Not.
PURCHASE TICKETS
905-306-6000
*This performance is suitable for ages 16 and up.
Photo: Ronnie Burkett and some of the cast of The Daisy Theatre. ©2016 Alejandro Santiago.
2018-11-12
Mississauga: Last chance to see Ronnie Burkett's "The Daisy Theatre" in the GTA is November 20-24