2009-2010 Season

BASH'd

Letters to my Grandma

Such Creatures

Yichud (Seclusion)

Future Folk

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Theatre Passe Muraille brings “Toronto” Season for 2009/10!

Welcome, Toronto!

Theatre Passe Muraille, translated into English is “theatre beyond walls”.

This season we are exploring the world of Toronto beyond our walls. In Toronto it is exhilarating to cross the street and enter into a new world. Our many neighbourhoods represent the span of the globe: Toronto is home to the stories of the world. Our season brings these stories into the theatre and onto our stage.

Andy McKim, Artistic Director

Theatre Passe Muraille can also be translated as “theatre without walls” – theatre that is open and inclusive. Not only does that describe TPM, it describes you, our audience. You can be adventurous, inquisitive and thoughtful. It is natural for you to seek out difference and novelty. You believe that theatre can be transforming when you come with an open mind and a willingness to engage in provocative ideas, even when they may not be your own. F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “The world only exists in your eyes – your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.” This season experience Toronto through the eyes of the people living here. Re-discover our city and its remarkable people..on stage and in the seat next to you.

- Andy McKim, Artistic Director

Theatre Passe Muraille presents:

BASH’d! (A GAY RAP OPERA)

Written and performed by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow
Directed by Ron Jenkins
Date: Oct. 15~31 (Previews Oct. 14)

BASH’d! is a fast-paced, high energy, musical love story told in rhyme. More info »

Letters to my Grandma

Written and performed by Anusree Roy 
Directed by Thomas Morgan Jones
Date: Nov. 25~Dec. 12 (Previews Nov. 20~24)

Letters to my Grandma is a haunting one-woman show that delves into how
hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the old world consumes families in Canada today. More info »

Such Creatures

Written by Judith Thompson
Directed by Brian Quirt
Date: Jan. 20 2010~Feb. 6 (Previews Jan. 14~19)

Two deeply-linked monologues show us the astonishing courage and resilience of young human beings during earth shattering moments. More info »

Yichud (Seclusion)

Written by Julie Tepperman
Directed by Aaron Willis
Date: Feb.10~Mar. 7 (Previews Feb.5~10)

Set in Toronto’s Orthodox Jewish community, Yichud (Seclusion) is an
unforgiving, tender and humorous exploration of the universal desire for
intimacy and how we cope with the repression of that desire. More info »

Future Folk

Written and performed by the Sulong Theatre Collective
Date: Feb.24~Mar. 13 (Feb.18~23)

Future Folk uses the vocabulary of Filipino folk arts to tell the story of Filipina nannies in Toronto and their labour under Canada’s notorious Live-In Caregiver Program. More info »

Guest Presentations:

The Refugee Hotel

by Carmen Aguirre
Produced by Alameda Theatre Company
Date: Sept. 17~Oct. 4 (Preview Sept.16)

A Chilean family arrives at a Vancouver residential hotel months after Chile’s bloody military coup. More info »

You Fancy Yourself

by Maja Ardal
Directed by Mary Francis Moore
Produced by Contrary Company
Date: Jan. 5~23 (Preview Jan.4)

You Fancy Yourself has been described by the press as a “virtuoso performance, hilarious and extremely captivating.” More info »

Birnam Wood

Directed by Allyson McMackon
Produced by Theatre Rusticle
Date: Mar. 18~27 (Preview Mar.17)

Birnam Wood is a search for restoration, a return to beauty after the hurly burly is done, and the battles are lost and won. More info »

Croscosmia

Produced by Little Bulb Theatre in association with Farnham Maltings
Date: Apr. 13~24
In a family that is shrinking and a world that is growing bigger, three precocious children attempt to carve out a unique space for themselves. More info »