Heads Up for the week of Nov. 25:
Nov. 27-Dec. 15, 2024
TARRAGON THEATRE
CRAZE
Written by Rouvan Silogix and Rafeh Mahmud
Directed by Mike Payette
Out of the storm and straight into the inferno.
Two couples shelter from an epic storm for a late night drinking session where technological mayhem and sexual frivolity may turn into something more… At times surrealist, dangerous, and laugh-out-loud outrageous, Craze is sure to keep you right on the knife’s edge.
Nov. 28 – Dec. 29, 2024.
SOULPEPPER THEATRE
THE MASTER PLAN
Written by Michael Healey
Directed by Chris Abraham
A biting satire about the stunning failure to build a smart city in Toronto. Adapted from award-winning writer and The Globe and Mail journalist Josh O’Kane’s best-selling book Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, the play takes us behind closed doors and reveals the corporate drama, epic personalities, and iconic Canadian figures involved in the messy affair between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto.
Friday, Nov. 29, 2024
Fleck Dance Theatre
Raven Mother
12:15 pm and 7:30 pm
(one of your last chances to attend the Fleck before it closes in March!)
The Toronto premiere of Dancers of Damelahamid’s most ambitious full-length work to date, Raven Mother, on stage November 29 at 12:15pm and 7:30pm at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre, presented by DanceWorks.
A celebration of the significant generational impact of matriarchs, performed to original music and live vocals, Raven Mother is an homage to the late Elder Margaret Harris, co-founder of Dancers of Damelahamid in 1967 and mother to the company’s Executive & Artistic Director Margaret Grenier.
Raven Mother illustrates the vast impact Elder Harris imparted on the revitalization of Indigenous dance along the Northwest Coast, and the integral role of women in holding cultural knowledge, including song, dance, stories, and regalia making.
Many Canadians may not be aware of the Potlatch Ban that outlawed Indigenous cultural practices, including song and dance, on this land for nearly 70 years (from 1884 – 1951). The movement practices that ground Raven Mother were nearly lost, but are now experiencing a resurgence due to the strength and vision of Elder Margaret Harris.
In Raven Mother, Harris’ spirit lives on, not only in the embodied narrative, but in the dancers themselves, who carry their grandmother’s vision forward for future generations to come. Performers include Harris’ daughter Margaret Grenier, and grandchildren Nigel Baker-Grenier and Raven Grenier, as well as Margaret’s niece Tobie Wick and daughter-in-law Rebecca Baker-Grenier.
For tickets and further information, visit: danceworks.ca
Nov. 29, 2024
Talk is Free Theatre, Barrie, Ont.
Madame Minister
Adapted by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Directed by Layne Coleman
Madame Minister Adapted by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman From “The Cabinet Minister’s Wife” By Branislav Nusic Directed by Layne Coleman
This is a New Work/World Premiere. It is an adaptation of a Serbian black comedy. The story is about a wife who is treated poorly by the community until she becomes the wife of the Cabinet Minister, at which point the tables are turned.
Heads Up for the week of Nov. 25:
Nov. 27-Dec. 15, 2024
TARRAGON THEATRE
CRAZE
Written by Rouvan Silogix and Rafeh Mahmud
Directed by Mike Payette
Out of the storm and straight into the inferno.
Two couples shelter from an epic storm for a late night drinking session where technological mayhem and sexual frivolity may turn into something more… At times surrealist, dangerous, and laugh-out-loud outrageous, Craze is sure to keep you right on the knife’s edge.
Nov. 28 – Dec. 29, 2024.
SOULPEPPER THEATRE
THE MASTER PLAN
Written by Michael Healey
Directed by Chris Abraham
A biting satire about the stunning failure to build a smart city in Toronto. Adapted from award-winning writer and The Globe and Mail journalist Josh O’Kane’s best-selling book Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, the play takes us behind closed doors and reveals the corporate drama, epic personalities, and iconic Canadian figures involved in the messy affair between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto.
Friday, Nov. 29, 2024
Fleck Dance Theatre
Raven Mother
12:15 pm and 7:30 pm
(one of your last chances to attend the Fleck before it closes in March!)
The Toronto premiere of Dancers of Damelahamid’s most ambitious full-length work to date, Raven Mother, on stage November 29 at 12:15pm and 7:30pm at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre, presented by DanceWorks.
A celebration of the significant generational impact of matriarchs, performed to original music and live vocals, Raven Mother is an homage to the late Elder Margaret Harris, co-founder of Dancers of Damelahamid in 1967 and mother to the company’s Executive & Artistic Director Margaret Grenier.
Raven Mother illustrates the vast impact Elder Harris imparted on the revitalization of Indigenous dance along the Northwest Coast, and the integral role of women in holding cultural knowledge, including song, dance, stories, and regalia making.
Many Canadians may not be aware of the Potlatch Ban that outlawed Indigenous cultural practices, including song and dance, on this land for nearly 70 years (from 1884 – 1951). The movement practices that ground Raven Mother were nearly lost, but are now experiencing a resurgence due to the strength and vision of Elder Margaret Harris.
In Raven Mother, Harris’ spirit lives on, not only in the embodied narrative, but in the dancers themselves, who carry their grandmother’s vision forward for future generations to come. Performers include Harris’ daughter Margaret Grenier, and grandchildren Nigel Baker-Grenier and Raven Grenier, as well as Margaret’s niece Tobie Wick and daughter-in-law Rebecca Baker-Grenier.
For tickets and further information, visit: danceworks.ca
Nov. 29, 2024
Talk is Free Theatre, Barrie, Ont.
Madame Minister
Adapted by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Directed by Layne Coleman
Madame Minister Adapted by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman From “The Cabinet Minister’s Wife” By Branislav Nusic Directed by Layne Coleman
This is a New Work/World Premiere. It is an adaptation of a Serbian black comedy. The story is about a wife who is treated poorly by the community until she becomes the wife of the Cabinet Minister, at which point the tables are turned.
Nov 28 to Dec 21, 2024.
Theatre Orangeville, Orangeville, Ont.
Sleeping Beauty… A Fairy’s Tale
by Debbie Collins & David Nairn
Directed by David Nairn.
From their website: “Remember when you were little and your parents would read you a good old-fashioned fairy tale?
Ahhhh, the good old days . . .
We take this well known story, fracture it, then put our own topsy turvy spin on it.
You will NEVER hear this tale told as we will tell it!
A pandemonium-packed panto for the whole family to love! You’ll be dancing and singing in your seats! You will boo the villain and cheer for the hero! You will laugh till your face hurts”.
www.theatreorangeville.ca