Three 海角涩区 Theatre productions to enjoy this fall season
Wednesday, Sept. 17 鈥� Saturday, Sept. 20, 7:30 PM each night
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens
Christopher is a 15-year-old with a remarkable intellect and a deep passion for
mathematics. One night, just after midnight, he is found standing beside the body of
Wellington, his neighbour Mrs. Shears’ dog, who has been brutally killed with a garden fork.
With suspicion quickly falling on him, Christopher decides to uncover the truth and begins
documenting everything in a book he is writing about the investigation. Christopher
struggles to understand the subtleties of everyday human interaction. He finds physical
contact unbearable, is wary of strangers, and has never gone beyond the end of his street
on his own. Despite these challenges, and against his father’s explicit wishes,
Christopher’s determination to solve the mystery propels him on a courageous and
unsettling journey that shatters everything he thought he knew about his world.
Directed by Jonathan Monro and performed by the second-year students of the Professional Theatre program
Wednesday, Oct. 1 鈥� Saturday, Oct. 4, 7:30 PM each night
Hecuba by Marina Carr
Troy has fallen. It鈥檚 the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse.
As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughter forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded 鈥� in a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?
Directed by Leslie Baker and performed by the second-year students of the Professional Theatre program
Nov. 10 and 11 (Free previews)
Nov. 12 鈥� 15 and Nov. 20 鈥� 22 at 7:30 PM
Matinees: Nov. 12, Nov. 14, Nov. 20 at 12:30 PM
The Women by Clare Boothe Luce
Set in the 1930s, Mary Haines is a wealthy, New-York-City doyenne who discovers
that her husband is cheating on her with a younger, blonder, poorer woman named
Crystal. Mary鈥檚 socialite, gossipy, so-called friends counsel her to get a divorce and
take her husband for everything he鈥檚 got. Her world-weary mother advises her to look
the other way and hang on to the cushy life she鈥檚 married into. Amid the confusion,
Mary ends up in Reno with a handful of other grudging divorcees and comes to the
conclusion that she鈥檚 made a mistake. She sets out to turn the tables on Crystal and
reclaim her ex, but at what cost? A searing, satirical comedy of manners that skewers
the privileged class and leaves no sex unscathed.
Performed by the third-year graduating students of the Professional Theatre Program and directed by Matt Holland.
Price: Adults $15
Seniors / non-海角涩区 Students $10
海角涩区 faculty, staff, students, alumni, retirees: $5
All shows take place at 海角涩区鈥檚 New Dome Theatre: 2000 Atwater Avenue, Montreal
