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The Globe and Mail (Canada)
April 7, 2009 Tuesday

BYLINE: J. Kelly Nestruck
SECTION: THE GLOBE REVIEW; THE BUZZ: BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS; Pg. R2
LENGTH: 192 words
DATELINE: Toronto

Toronto Mayor David Miller was on hand for the unveiling of Theatre Passe Muraille’s 2009-10 season last night, a series of eight plays that artistic director Andy McKim said will put the spotlight on the city – and, it appears, some of its darker corners. Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures, a world premiere, focuses on two 15-year-old girls – one interned at Auschwitz in 1945, the other living on the “dark side of contemporary Toronto” – while Sulong Theatre Collective will premiere Future Folk about Filipina nannies in the city. Julie Tepperman’s Yichud (Seclusion), a remount of Anusree Roy’s Letters to my Grandma and Chris Craddock’s Off-Broadway musical BASH’d round out the theatre’s subscription series of five plays.

BASH’d is also appearing as part of the 2009-10 lineup at Ottawa’s The Great Canadian Theatre Company, announced today. Other highlights of GCTC’s upcoming season include Pamela Gien’s The Syringa Tree, the premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s The Children’s Republic, Arthur Milner’s Facts, dub poet d’bi young’s blood.claat: one oomaan story and the comedy Heroes, written by Gérald Sibleyras and translated by Tom Stoppard.