Tag Archives: Alumnae Theatre

Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week Three

Letting Go

Written by Neale Kimmel
Directed by Joanne Williams
Running time: 15 minutes

Robin Cunningham & Sarah Cody in Letting Go by Neale Kimmel. Photo: Joanne Williams.

Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you still have feelings for your soon-to-be ex. When Lucy and Darryl attempt to part ways at Union Station, they find it’s even more difficult than [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With David Nicholson

David Nicholson

David Nicholson delights in giving new life to classic French comedies. His translations of Tartuffe (East Side Players) and Cyprienne (The Village Playhouse) were well-received by Toronto audiences. Currently, Nicholson is staging Two Weeks in Normandy (translated from Villégiature by Henry Meilhac) in Week Three (March 23 to 26, 2011) of Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival. Watch [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week Two

Reflections
Written by Flora Stohr-Danziger
Directed by Annie MacMillan
Running time: 25 minutes

Cast clockwise from centre of Susan Q. Wilson (Matilda): Marisa Crockett (Matty), Morna Wales (Mother & Psychiatrist), Adrian Yearwood (The Artist), and Anna Ross (Tilly) in Reflections by Flora Stohr-Danziger. Photo by Marisa Crockett.

Reflections tells the story of an artist named Matilda (Susan Q. Wilson). She finds an [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With Neale Kimmel

Neale Kimmel

Since completing her BFA in acting at the University of Windsor, Neale Kimmel has performed in New York, Minnesota and Montreal with the play How Does a Drug Deal Become a Decent Third Date? New to the world of playwrighting, Kimmel’s first play Like Bees and Honey was produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival in [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Q&A With Kelsey Blair

Kelsey Blair

Kelsey Blair holds a BA in film studies from the University of British Columbia and an MA in cinema studies from the University of Toronto. A freelance writer and editor, Blair’s work has been published and produced both locally and nationally. Most recent (stage) credits include: Twenty (Alumnae Theatre’s 48-Hour Playwriting Contest), How to [...]

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Monday, March 21, 2011

New Ideas Festival: Week One

 

Since 1989, Alumnae Theatre Company has hosted an annual festival of new works, which provides playwrights, directors, actors and technicians the opportunity to develop never-before-produced short scripts. The New Ideas Festival is now a juried, three-week annual festival of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays each week, and a staged reading on Saturdays [...]

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Real Inspector Hound & After Magritte

Tom Stoppard’s duo of one-act comedies tickle the belly and boggle the mind
Directed by Barbara Larose and Ellen Green
Presented by Alumnae Theatre

A scene from The Real Inspector Hound. Back row: Moon (Scott Moore), Birdboot (Richard Jones), Mrs. Drudge (Brenda Somers), Felicity (Laura Vincent), Magnus (Rob Candy). Front row: Inspector Hound (Derek Perks), Simon (Leeman Kessler), Cynthia [...]

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