Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts, Brock University
NEW IN 2019 Tickets for all performances are available online through Brock University Tickets
Please contact the Production Manager Brian Cumberland for assistance with ticket purchases and for all group ticket purchases.
Fall Mainstage Production:
Orlando: by Virginia Woolf,
adapted by Sarah Ruhl
In Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando, we are taken from the witty pages of Virginia’s Woolf’s timeless novel into the sensual world of the stage, where identity is learned and unlearned. Join Orlando and the ensemble as they salsa dance with gender, dash through carefully cut English gardens, and land centuries farther than they began with the same question: can we learn who we truly are in a world constructed to tell us who we should be?
Directed by David Fancy.
When: Oct. 25 and 26, 2019 — 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 27, 2019 — 2 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2019 — 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Nov. 2, 2019 — 7:30 p.m.
Where: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Purchase your tickets at brocku.universitytickets.com
Orlando: by Virginia Woolf,
adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by David Fancy.
Assistant Director: Josh Loewen
Set Designer: James McCoy
Costume Designer: Kelly Wolf
Lighting Design: James McCoy
Projection Design: James McCoy
Audio Design: James Dengate
Dramaturge: Emily Clegg
Choreographer: Trevor Copp
Stage Manager: Frances Johnson
Asst Stage Manager Peter Herbert
Production Manager: Brian Cumberland
Technical Director: Gavin Fearon
Head of Wardrobe: Roberta Doylend
Construction Head: Ed Harris
Wardrobe Assist. Avery Delaney
CAST:
*Paige Hunt-Harman — ORLANDO
*Sid Malcolm — SASHA / CHORUS
*Taj Crozier — QUEEN ELIZABETH / OTHELLO / PRIEST / CHORUS
*Nathan Rossi — ARCHDUCHESS / ARCHDUKE / SALESPERSON / CHORUS
*Diego Blanco — FAVILLA / DESDEMONA / DUPPER / ELEVATOR MAN / CHORUS
*Beth Martin — CHORUS
*Holly Hebert — EUPHROSYNE / WASHERWOMAN / CAPTAIN / MARMADUKE / CHORUS
*Asenia Lyall — CHORUS / SEA MAN
*Jane Smith — CLORINDA / PENELOPE HARTROPP / GRIMSDITCH / CHORUS
CREW:
Dresser: Julian Corlett
Props Runner: Kristina Miller
Stage Carpenter: Joanna Tran
Sound Operator: Michael Cicchini
Lighting Operator: Alex Sykes
Follow spot Operator: Tsipporah Shendroff
Projections Operator: Alyssa Ruddock
Pipeline to a Better Way:
Public Lecture and Play Reading:
A weekend of theatre, discussion, and community-building
Nov. 10th, 2019
3:00pm to 6:30pm at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines ON
3:00pm to 3:45pm Keynote by Ravi Jain “Alternative Visions of Existence”
4:00pm to 5:15pm Staged Reading of Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lisa Karen Cox
A series of events around questions of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the Brock and St. Catharines theatre community and beyond, co-produced by the Walker Cultural Leaders Program at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University and the theatre company Suitcase in Point.
Activities at Brock include a keynote address by Ravi Jain, artistic director of Why Not Theatre; a staged reading of Dominique Morisseau’s award-winning play Pipeline (directed by directed by Toronto-based actor, director, and producer Lisa Karen Cox; with a cast and creative team of professional actors and Brock Dramatic Arts students); and discussions about the St. Catharines artistic and cultural landscape.
On Nov. 9, Suitcase in Point Theatre Company presents a forum, roundtable and a cabaret in downtown St Catharines.
Details at suitcaseinpoint.com
Nov. 10th, 2019
3:00pm to 6:30pm at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines ON
3:00pm to 3:45pm
Keynote by Ravi Jain
“Alternative Visions of Existence”
“While working in Nairobi, Kenya I learned of Ngugi wa’Thiongo. He was a pioneer of Kenyan theatre, who was exiled for rediscovering a Kenyan theatre which challenged the British rule and history of the country. Someone wrote of his work, ‘he was searching for alternative visions of existence’. That phrase has stuck with me ever since, and is the bedrock of everything I do.” – Ravi Jain
How do we challenge the status quo and use the arts to create a vision of the world we want to see, a version of the world we want to live in? This talk will look at how artists can challenge their own assumptions of what theatre is, who gets to tell it, who it is for and what its purpose is. An exploration of the imagination, activism and the story of an artist who is always looking for a better way.
4:00pm to 5:15pm
Staged Reading of Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lisa Karen Cox
In this play, which premiered in 2017 in New York City, a mother’s hopes for her son clash with an educational system rigged against him. The title refers to the widespread perception of a school-to-prison pipeline for young African-American men.
5:30pm to 6:30pm Q & A discussion
The event is presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts for the Walker Cultural Leader Series, generously founded by Marilyn I. Walker. The Walker Cultural Leader series brings leading artists, performers, practitioners and academics to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at Brock University. Engaging, lively and erudite, these sessions celebrate professional achievement, artistic endeavour and the indelible role of culture in our society. Please join us.
Tickets are required for this free public event
Department of Dramatic Arts Presents:
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
Plug in and recharge with Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. As we swipe into an abstract reality of excess and access, where fragmented individuals struggle to connect despite having everything at their fingertips. Witness a collage of over 60 scenes exploring how love and information impact the lives of more than 100 characters. Come see how one of the greatest playwrights of our time explores relationships in today’s “connected” age.
Directed by Mike Griffin.
When:
Nov. 29th at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 30th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 1st at 2:00 p.m.
Where: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Purchase your tickets at brocku.universitytickets.com
Love & information: by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Mike Griffin.
Set Designer: Frances Johnson
Costume Designers: Rachel Frederick and Paige Hunt-Harman
Lighting Designer: James McCoy
Projection Design: Emily Clegg
Audio Design: Beth Martin
Dramaturge: Emily Clegg
Choreographers: Sam Rideout and Alexandra Chubaty Boychuck
Stage Manager: Jordine De Guzman
Asst Stage Manager Beth Martin
Production Manager: Sam Rideout
CAST:
Jasmine Case
Joanna Tran
Josh Loewen
Lauren Reid
Rachel Frederick
Shannon Fletcher
Taylor Bogaert
Spring Mainstage Production:
Perdita, or The Winter’s Tale,
adapted by Gyllian Raby
Join us for our second Mainstage production of the 2019-20 season: a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic co-directed by Professors Gyllian Raby and Danielle Wilson, with Gerry Trentham.
Perdita, or The Winter’s Tale, views through the eyes of a child the chaos set in motion by a father’s paranoid jealousy. King Leontes’ psychosis is terrifying as he plots to kill his best friend Polixenes on suspicion of adultery with Queen Hermione. But when he threatens the lives of the Queen and her newborn daughter, Leontes succeeds only in killing his heir, the ailing prince Maximillius. In the storm of recrimination that follows, Max steps out of Time to save his baby sister, manipulating the Winter’s Tale by imagining reality anew.
The Department of Dramatic Arts presents this sad tale with a happy ending. The Winter’s Tale is Maximillius’ attempt to explore the situation that is destroying him, to understand its consequences and to bind his world together.
Presented at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts. Purchase your tickets at https://brocku.universitytickets.com/.
When: Feb. 28 and 29, 2020 — 7:30 p.m.
March 1, 2020 — 2 p.m.
March 6, 2020 —11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
March 7, 2020 — 7:30 p.m.
Where: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Perdita, or the winter’s tale: By William Shakespeare (adapted by Gyllian Raby)
Directed by Danielle Wilson and Gyllian Raby, with Gerry Trentham
Set Design by Nigel Scott
Costume Design by Alexandra Lord
Lighting Design by Chris Malkowski
Sound Design and Music by Max Holten-Andersen
Assistant Direction by Rina Wilkins and Emma McCormick.
Stage Manager: Jordine De Guzman
Asst Stage Manager Elizabeth Martin and Diego Blanco
Production Manager: Brian Cumberland
Technical Director: Gavin Fearon
Shop Supervisor: Ed Harris
Theatre Technician: Dawn Crysler
Head of Wardrobe: Roberta Doylend
CAST:
Avery Delaney Florizel
Jackson Wagner Leontes
Jasmine Case Perdita
Jesse Caines Court Judge/Jailer/Servant
Joanna Tran Hermione
Juan-Carlos Figueroa Polixenes
Lauren Reid Paulina/Shepherd 2
Leah Rantala Emilia
Meryl Ochoa Maximilius/Time
Mike Hammond Antigonus/Shepherd 3
Molly Lacey Clio/Dorcas
Rachel Frederick Dion/Mopsa
Taylor Bogaert Camillo
EDITOR’S NOTE: This festival event has been cancelled as part of Brock University’s ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and the community in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Department of Dramatic Arts Presents
ONE ACTS FESTIVAL 2020:
The festival is the final presentation for student directors enrolled in the third-year Directing II (DART3P54) course. All plays are created, produced and performed by DART students under the direction of Gyllian Raby.
When: March 20 and March 21 at 7:30 pm
Where: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Admission: pay-what-you-can at the door
Limited paid parking available
SIX EMERGING DIRECTORS PRESENT A VARIED FESTIVAL OF ONE ACT THEATRE PLAYS
This year’s play festival offers plays of all moods, from somber to joyful.
Three Canadian plays by Victoria Dawe, John Lazarus, and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard explore the meaning of Art, why Playwriting might be illegal in some places, and what happens when Feminazis emerge from their bunker to take over the world!
From Ireland and the US, Deirdre Kinahan and Laurie Powers bring poignant explorations of ageing, of reflection and regret, while Slavomir Mrozek’s expressionist satire of freedom politics in 1968 Poland resonates in many countries today.
The emerging directors from Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts are Dillon Bernier, Wyatt Hoskin, Holly Hebert, Juan-Carlos Figueroa, Molly Lacey, and Peter Herbert. These student directors are completing the course DART 3P54 Directing II, a directing practicum focusing on creating action, total theatre composition, team management and communications, lead by Associate Professor Gyllian Raby and instructor/teaching Assistant Colin B. Anthes of Twitches and Itches Theatre and Essential Collective Theatre. The directors each selected a play that spoke to them about the world we live in, and worked through all production elements from casting through to design and rehearsal.
The Department of Dramatic Arts is proud to launch these young artists with this exciting Spring event.
THE ILLEGAL PLAYWRITING CLASS
by John Lazarus
Directed by Wyatt Hoskin
THE TRUNK
by L. Elizabeth Powers
Directed by Molly Lacey
SALAD DAY
by Deirdre Kinahan
Directed by Juan-Carlos Figueroa
THE WORK OF ART
by Victoria Dawe
Directed by Dillon Bernier
SAY THE WORDS
by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Directed by Holly Hebert
OUT AT SEA
by Sławomir Mrozek
Directed by Peter Herbert
EDITOR’S NOTE: These performances have been cancelled as part of Brock University’s ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and the community in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Department of Dramatic Arts Presents:
Tomorrowlove,
by rosamund small
When:
April 3, 2020 — 5:00 p.m.
April 3, 2020 — 9 p.m.
April 4, 2020 —1:00 p.m.
April 4, 2020 —5:00 p.m.
April 4, 2020 —9:00 p.m.
Where: Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, 15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone decided to erase you from their memory completely? Would you use an app that could match you with your soulmate? What if you could communicate with the dead via video chat?
Rosamund Small’s TomorrowLove is a collection of stories about love, sex, technology, and the future. Studio Taxi Theatre’s (DART 4F56 – Advanced Studies in Theatre) production features 9 of Small’s stories performed as an immersive experience around the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. The stories range from the poignant and comedic, to the dramatic and heartbreaking.
Every audience member will see 4 stories as they travel through this experience, therefore, audiences are encouraged to see the show at least twice in order to catch as many stories as they can. The number of audience members is limited to 40 per show, split into 2 groups in order to allow for intimate audience/actor relationships, so it is recommended that audience members buy their tickets in advance and arrive early to choose their own adventure!
Each location in the production is accessible and will have seating for audience members. If you anticipate extra assistance being needed, please contact studiotaxitheatre@gmail.com
Content warning: contains scenes with sexual content, strong language, and references to sexual and physical violence.
This is a presentation by the DART 4F56 (Advanced Studies in Theatre)/DART 4P97 (Collaborative Stage Production) graduating students’ ensemble for Spring 2020. All productions are created, produced and performed by DART students under the direction of Mike Griffin.
Presented at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts.
Purchase your tickets at https://brocku.universitytickets.com/.
TOMORROWLOVE: by ROSAMUND SMALL
Directed by Mike Griffin
Assistant Director: Josh Loewen
Set Designer: Josh Loewen
Props Designer/Set Decoration: Joanna Tran
Costume Designer: Rachel Frederick
Lighting Designer: Lauren Reid
Sound Design: Taylor Bogaert
Dramaturge: Alexandra Chubaty Boychuk
Stage Manager: Shannon Fletcher
Assistant Stage Manager: Jasmine Case
Production Manager: Jordine De Guzman
Head of Publicity: Shannon Fletcher
CAST:
Alexandra Chubaty Boychuk
Emily Clegg
Paige Hunt-Harman
Samantha Rideout
Beth Martin
Frances Johnson
All Mainstage performances:
- Appropriate for High School-Age Audiences
- Shows may contain mature language and situations
- Post-performance Q&A with the actors and creative team are available for both productions.
- Teacher Workshops are available
- Audience Maximum: varies depending upon the production, contact the Production Manager
- Contact Brian Cumberland, Production Manager, for more information: bcumberland@brocku.ca.
- Purchase regularly priced tickets here
Prices: (no HST)
$20.00 Adults
$16.00 Seniors/Students
$13.00 Groups (10+)
Purchase regularly priced tickets here
Groups rates are available:
10+ = $13 each + 1 teacher comp
20+ = $12 each + 2 teacher comps
30+ = $11 each + 3 teacher comps
40+ = $10 each + 4 teacher comps
50+ = $ 9 each + 5 teacher comps
Please contact the Production Manager Brian Cumberland for all group ticket purchases.
Publicity opportunities and media information:
Please contact David Vivian, Director, MIWSFPA
905 688 5550 x4401/6092
e-mail: dvivian@brocku.ca
PARKING
Parking is not available on-site, however, there are more than 1,000 spots available in nearby parking garages, surface lots and on city streets within a five-minute walk to our address at 15 Artists’ Common. Visit www.stcatharines.ca/en/livein/ParkingLotsGarages.asp for a list of parking locations, or see below.
