The Coal Mine Theatre has announced its 2019/20 season:

KNIVES IN HENS 

by David Harrower

Preview Sunday, September 22 and Tuesday September 24, 2019 at 7:30pm
Opening Night Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7:30pm
Closing Day Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 2pm

Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm (Mondays Dark)
Matinees are Sunday at 2pm
This show has a running time of 75 minutes
Previews $25 (plus HST)
Regular price $47.50 - $55.50 (plus HST)
Rush tickets $25 (cash only, at the door, 45 minutes before performance starts, subject to availability. No phone reservations).

Directed by Leora Morris
Written by  David Harrower

Starring Diana Bentley, Jim Mezon, and Jonathon Young

KNIVES IN HENS,  acclaimed playwright David Harrower’s first play, is a brutal fable of awakening consciousness and is set in a timeless community. It is as relevant today as it was when it originally premiered. It deals with a relationship triangle in a rural setting and a woman's internal quest to find out what she wants from life.

Season Six launches with KNIVES IN HENS, written by David Harrower, directed by Leora Morris (Orphans, for The Coal Mine, The Philosopher’s Wife for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), and starring Coal Mine Theatre Co-Chief Engineer Diana Bentley (Orphans, Category E) for THE COAL MINE THEATRE, plus critically acclaimed Canadian actors Jim Mezon, who is best known for his 33 years at the Shaw Festival, and Jonathan Young, cofounder of the Electric Company Theatre, and star and co-creator of the multi-award-winning Betroffenheit. KNIVES IN HENS premiered at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in June, 1995 and is widely acknowledged as a modern Scottish classic, has played in over 30 countries and won the Theater Heute Best Foreign Play, Critics Award in 1998.

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BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Preview Sunday, November 24 and Tuesday, November 26 2019 at 7:30pm
Opening Night Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 7:30pm
Closing Day Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 2pm

Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm (Mondays Dark)
Matinees are Sunday at 2pm
There is a 10 minute intermission for this show. No latecomers.
Previews $25 (plus HST)
Regular price $47.50 - $55.50 (plus HST)
Rush tickets $25 (cash only, at the door, 45 minutes before performance starts, subject to availability. No phone reservations).

Directed by Kelli Fox
Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Starring Claire Armstrong, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Sergio Di Zio, Allegra Fulton, Jai Jai Jones, Nabil Rajo and Alexander Thomas

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, won the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, the 2015 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play and the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in New York City, it boldly examines, with delightful wit, the effects of social prejudice and continues to be extremely relevant in an unsteady society. Pushing to hang on to one of Manhattan’s last rent-stabilized apartments, ex-cop Walter “Pops” Washington conflicts with a slew of bizarre characters, each a celebration of the flaws that make up human nature.

The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning production for drama, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, written by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is directed by Kelli Fox, a renowned Canadian actor and director, and recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Prize. The production stars Dora award-winning actor and co-founder of The Storefront Theatre, Claire Armstrong; Zarrin Darnell-Martin, best known for her role in Room (Elevation Pictures 2015); Sergio Di Zio Flashpoint (CTV); Multi award-winning actor Allegra Fulton, The Glass Menagerie (Shaw Festival), and Dinner with the Duchess (Next Stage Theatre Festival); Film and TV actor Jai Jai Jones, best known for his role in the Emmy nominated Copper; Nabil Rajo Superior Donuts (Coal Mine Theatre); and Alexander Thomas The Royale (Soulpepper Theatre) as “Pops”.

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MARJORIE PRIME

by Jordan Harrison

Preview Sunday, January 26 and Tuesday, January 28 2020 at 7:30pm
Opening Night Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 7:30pm
Closing Day Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 2pm

Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm (Mondays Dark)
Matinees are Sunday at 2pm
There is a 10 minute intermission for this show. No latecomers.
Previews $25 (plus HST)
Regular price  $47.50 - $55.50 (plus HST)
Rush tickets $25 (cash only, at the door, 45 minutes before performance starts, subject to availability. No phone reservations).

Directed by Stewart Arnott
Written by Jordan Harrison

Starring Beau Dixon, Sarah Dodd, Gordon Hecht and Martha Henry

MARJORIE PRIME, opened off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 14, 2016 and was originally directed by Anne Kauffman. A film adaptation by Michael Almereyda debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, to great critical acclaim. In MARJORIE PRIME, a rich, sci-fi drama, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits — if any — of what technology can replace. It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.

The 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist MARJORIE PRIME is written by award-winning American playwright Jordan Harrison, and features a renowned Canadian cast including one of Canadian Theatre’s greatest artists Martha Henry, who was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1981, and promoted to Companion in 1990, and also received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for her lifetime contribution to Canadian theatre.The play is helmed by Director Stewart Arnott Seminar (Royal MTC and Mirvish Productions); Title and Deed (Nightfall Theatrics/Artspace Youngplace) and features Sarah Dodd, Private Lives, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Front Page (Stratford Festival); Multi Dora award-winning actor Beau Dixon, The Father, (Coal Mine Theatre) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Soul Pepper Theatre), and Hamlet, Next To Normal (Tarragon Theatre); and Gordon Hecht, Incident at Vichy (Soulpepper Theatre).

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COST OF LIVING

by Martyna Majok

Preview Sunday, April 5 and Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 7:30pm
Opening Night Wednesday, April 8 2020 at 7:30pm
Closing Day Sunday, April 26 at 2pm

Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30pm (Mondays Dark)
Matinees are Sunday at 2pm
There is a 10 minute intermission for this show. No latecomers.
Previews $25 (plus HST)
Regular price $47.50 - $55.50 (plus HST)
Rush tickets $25 (cash only, at the door, 45 minutes before performance starts, subject to availability. No phone reservations).

Directed by Ted Dykstra
Written by Martyna Majok

Starring Jessica Grossi, Eileen Grubba, Tony Nappo and Sean Towgood

COST OF LIVING, is a deeply poetic, and also witty production about the drive that brings people together and the harsh realities of living with physical disabilities. It forces society to deconstruct the meaning of abled and disabled, whole and un-whole. And, in shattering the stereotypes around disability, it explores how bodies, abled and disabled, really just need each other.

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, as well as three Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play, COST OF LIVING is written by Martyna Majok, directed by the Co-Chief Engineer of COAL MINE THEATRE, Ted Dykstra, and stars well-known Toronto actor Tony Nappo, Butcher (Theatre Centre); with Jessica Grossi, A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Grand Theatre); Eileen Grubba; and Sean Towgood, Wounded Soldiers (4th Line Theatre). The play received four Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations, as well as both a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award nomination. COST OF LIVING made its world premiere during a June 29 – July 10, 2016 run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It then moved to New York City Center for a production by Manhattan Theatre Club and officially opened on June 7, 2017.

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For tickets or more information, vist www.coalminetheatre.com.