“Violations”
THEATRE ERINDALE SEASON 2009-2010:
“Violations”
WIDOWS
by Ariel Dorfman
directed by Bill Lane
“One night I was visited by an image, almost a hallucination: an old woman by a river, holding the hand of a body that
had just washed up on its shores. And the certainty that this scene had happened before …” Three army officers struggle to cope with a village of peasant women awaiting the return of their
‘disappeared’ menfolk. From the world-famous
Chilean author of Death and the Maiden comes a surreal and mysterious parable that “gives flesh to a human rights issue
of our time”.
“Widows asks questions which cannot easily be ignored” – BBC Devon
“A lesson in how power really works, and how it can be made to work differently.” – Chicago
Tribune
“ 'Widows' digs remarkably deep” – New Theater Corps, NYC
OCTOBER 15-17, 20-24, 2009
Don't Drink The Water
based on the book by Brenda Lee Burke
adapted by the Company under the direction of Marc Richard
The story of the Walkerton water tragedy - A Theatre Erindale World Première
Two hours north-west of Mississauga lies a pretty town whose name will forever be identified with the worst crisis of its kind in Canadian History. The Walkerton e-coli outbreak of 2000 left families destroyed, the economy in a shambles and a community's sense of self permanently undermined. What went wrong? And how do you heal a town? Now our creative team distils the essence of this best-selling volume- into dynamic live theatre!
NOVEMBER 5-7, 10-14, 2009
ANDROMACHE
by Jean Racine; translated by Richard Wilbur
directed by Patrick Young
Desire … envy … vengeance …
Racine’s most popular tragedy pitches a youthful ensemble into a paroxysm of emotional violence. An operatic tangle of
obsessed and unrequited lovers pursue their passions with lethal results, in the mythic aftermath of the Trojan War. This
extraordinary French masterpiece from 1667 is rendered into rhyming couplets by the Broadway master of English
verse.
“What impels the action of Andromache is love … closer to hatred than to friendship.” – Richard Wilbur “
"
A tour
de force” – The Hudson Review
“Intensely moving” – New York Times
JANUARY 21-23, 26-30, 2010
STRING OF PEARLS
by Michelle Lowe
directed by Ralph Small
Twenty-seven women, thirty-six years … and a single strand of pearls.
This kaleidoscopic and engagingly fresh 2004 story-telling sequence about the possibilities opened in the lives of a
string of women by a pearl necklace – which gives the play both its title and its metaphor – has enjoyed dozens of
productions across the continent.
“A highly satisfying, often hilarious blend of sex, satire, poignancy and absurdism.” –
New York Times
“A gem.” – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"
As precious and glowing as its title suggests.” – Off
Broadway
with THE SPOT by Steven Dietz
A juicy 2004 political satire from the Actors’ Theater of Louisville.
FEBRUARY 11-13, 23-27, 2010
THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE
by David Garrick & George Colman
directed by Peter Van Wart
“One of the finest comedies of the mid-18th century” – Michael Patterson
From two of the period’s greatest masters comes this sophisticated 1766 comedy blessed with superb plotting, delicious
character studies, and knowing stagecraft. Fanny is not only secretly married but pregnant. Yet when her nouveau-riche
father plans to buy his daughters a title by marrying them off to the nobility, she turns out to be the only one they want!
The tangle is finally unraveled by the last person you might expect.
“The representation met with universal applause” –
London Magazine, 1766
“Exceedingly enjoyable.” – New York Times, 1871
“Delicious ham of the finest quality” – GW
Hatchet, Washington, 2005
MARCH 11-13, 16-20, 2010
