Alumnae’s 2015 - 2016 Season
2015 - 2016 Season Overview · The Plays:
by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere
September 18-October 3, 2015
Directed by Janet Kish
This provocative adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy presents a world of honor, treachery and fateful consequences. Jean Anouilh’s modernized version uses the classic Greek tragedy Antigone to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times.
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2015 2016 Season
November 4-22, 2015
Alumnae Theatre Company’s third annual new works festival presents three full-length plays developed at Alumnae. Focusing on the playwrights’ process, FireWorks will also include discussion panels, playwright talkbacks, and a writing intensive led by a well-known playwright.
This season’s festival features Divine Wrecks by Chloë Whitehorn, Radical by Charles Hayter, and Cottage Radio by Taylor Marie Graham.
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by Richard Harris
January 22-February 6, 2016
An Alumnae Retrospective Production
Directed by Brenda Darling
At a weekly tap dance class with a vivacious ex-pro and her vegetarian pianist, eight mismatched strangers joyfully exchange their hum-drum lives for “tap, step, ball change, cramp roll… pick up your feet”. Secrets tumble out. Conflicts arise. Friendships grow. Everyone is changed. And they dance….
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March 9-27, 2016
The 28th annual New Ideas Festival is a three-week, juried festival of new writing, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre with a different program of plays each week and staged readings on the three Saturdays. The chance to see premières of new works from both emerging and experienced theatre artists makes the festival a must-see for Toronto theatre goers.
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by Tracy Letts
April 8–23, 2016
Directed by Victoria Shepherd
When the family patriarch vanishes, the Westons return to rural Oklahoma to care for their afflicted, manipulative mother. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Tracy Letts’ darkly comic drama August: Osage County is a harrowing epic that puts the “fun” in “dysfunctional”.
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