2016 Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients

GENERAL THEATRE DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom A Canadian Stage Production in collaboration with the Department of Theatre in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University

 

Outstanding New Play

Kat Sandler   Mustard

 

Outstanding Direction

Ravi Jain Salt-Water Moon

 

Outstanding Performance – Male

Anand Rajaram   Mustard

 

Outstanding Performance – Female

Rebecca Northan   Blind Date

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of The Great War VideoCabaret

 

Outstanding Scenic Design

Judith Bowden Chimerica

 

Outstanding Costume Design

Astrid Janson, Melanie McNeill   The Great War

 

Outstanding Lighting Design

Jennifer Lennon Bombay Black

 

Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

Debashis Sinha   We Are Proud to Present…

 

 

INDEPENDENT THEATRE DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

The Winter’s Tale Groundling Theatre Company

 

Outstanding New Play

Cliff Cardinal   Huff

 

Outstanding Direction

Weyni Mengesha Butcher

 

Outstanding Performance – Male

Cliff Cardinal   Huff

 

Outstanding Performance – Female

d’bi. young anitafrika   She Mami Wata & the Pussy Witchhunt

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of La Chasse Galerie Red One Theatre Collective

 

Outstanding Scenic Design

Patrick Lavender   CRAWLSPACE

 

Outstanding Costume Design

Anna Treusch   Tails from the City

 

Outstanding Lighting Design

Patrick Lavender   It Comes In Waves

 

Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

James Smith   La Chasse Galerie

 

 

MUSICAL THEATRE DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

Kinky Boots   Daryl Roth & Hal Luftig by arrangement with David Mirvish

 

Outstanding Performance – Male

Alan Mingo Jr.   Kinky Boots

 

Outstanding Performance – Female

Lisa Horner    Grey Gardens

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of The Wizard of Oz Young People’s Theatre

 

OPERA DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

Siegfried   Canadian Opera Company

 

Outstanding Performance – Male

Quinn Kelsey   La Traviata

 

Outstanding Performance – Female

Ekaterina Siurina   La Traviata

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of AtG’s Messiah Against the Grain

 

 

MUSICAL THEATRE / OPERA DIVISION

 

Outstanding New Musical or Opera

Marjorie Chan (Librettist) & John Harris (Composer)   M’dea Undone

 

Outstanding Direction

François Girard   Siegfried

 

Outstanding Scenic Design

Michael Levine   Siegfried

 

Outstanding Costume Design

Cait O’Connor   La Traviata

 

Outstanding Lighting Design

David Finn   Siegfried

 

Outstanding Choreography

Jerry Mitchell   Kinky Boots

 

Outstanding Musical Direction

Johannes Debus Siegfried

 

 

THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

Goodnight Moon   Young People’s Theatre presents Seattle Children’s Theatre

 

Outstanding New Play

Maja Ardal, Audrey Dwyer, Julia Tribe, Mary Francis Moore   One Thing Leads to Another

 

Outstanding Direction

Sébastien Bertrand   Les Zinspirés puissance Quatre

 

Outstanding Performance – Individual

Mishka Thébaud   Scarberia

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of One Thing Leads to Another Young People’s Theatre

 

DANCE DIVISION

 

Outstanding Production

Betroffenheit   A Kidd Pivot, Electric Company Theatre Production, presented by Canadian Stage

 

Outstanding Choreography

Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad Filgate, Brodie Stevenson

Various Concert (dance: made in canada/ fait au canada – Morrison Series)

 

Outstanding Performance – Male

Fabien Piché

Waiting for a Sleepless Night (dance: made in canada/ fait au canada – Robinson Series)

 

Outstanding Performance – Female

Jillian Peever   The Mystery of Mr. Leftovers

 

Outstanding Performance – Ensemble

The Ensemble of DanceWorks DW212: Woven DanceWorks/Tribal Crackling Wind

 

Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

John Kameel Farah and Fides Krucker Phase Space

 

Outstanding Lighting Design

Marc Parent  Phase Space

 

 

TOURING

 

Outstanding Touring Production (open to General Theatre & Musical Theatre/ Opera)

Cold Blood created by Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael presented by Canadian Stage

 

Truth or Dare Play Toronto

Lindsay Mullan and Jamie Northan brought their improve show “Truth or Dare” to Toronto. Having performed at once very popular Bad Dog Theatre on Oct. 1 and Oct. 3, Mullan and Northan did the easiest (one might think) thing there is. They played a well-known game live on stage, engaging the audience in the show from time to time. Both actors usually do their “homework” preparing questions for future game. However, those questions remain secret to the partner up until they are both on stage and there is no turning back. This is how they end up telling personal stories about sex and dating, eating whatever the spectators have in their pockets and sometimes even getting naked in front of the crowd. This might sound like a piece of cake, especially if you perform for a relatively small audience, which was the case at the Bad Dog with only around 30 spectators. However, Mullan and Northan, both originally from Calgary, traveled with their show across Canada and “played” in front of several hundred people.

After the show both actors stayed for a couple drinks and talked to spectators. As it turned out, many of them have seen the show before, either in Edmonton, Calgary or Vancouver. This is a perfect illustration of the beauty of improv shows in general and “Truth or Dare” in particular. It never gets boring and even if you go every day you can still laugh your head off.

By Aliona Kuts
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Tarragon Theatre Toronto “Waiting Room”

Tarragon Theatre Toronto “Waiting Room”

Tarragon Theatre presents the world premiere of
Waiting Room
by Diane Flacks
Directed by Richard Greenblatt
Starring Ari Cohen, Michelle Monteith, Jordan Pettle, Warona Setshwaelo, Jane Spidell, Jenny Young

Photo Cylla-von-Tiedemann

Tarragon Theatre proudly presents the world premiere of Waiting Room, written by the talented and multi-faceted Diane Flacks, and directed by the equally talented, multi-faceted Richard Greenblatt, teaming up for a second time as writer and director for Tarragon. This powerful new drama about diagnosis, prognosis and uncertainty opens January 14, 2015 and runs to February 15 (previews from January 6) in Tarragon’s Mainspace. Six outstanding actors – Ari Cohen, Michelle Monteith, Jordan Pettle, Warona Setshwaelo, Jane Spidell, Jenny Young – are featured in this penetrating work.

What are you willing to risk to save a life? A doctor embarks on a ground-breaking medical experiment despite the objections of his colleagues. Meanwhile, a couple are torn about whether the doctor has what it takes to save their baby. This is a play about life in the waiting room of a major children’s hospital. This is a play about medical compassion and risk. This is a play about families who find the will to keep going. This is a play about the needs of the heart and the extremes of medicine. This is a play about breaking the rules. This is a play about hope.

“Hope is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words
– And never stops – At all.” -Emily Dickinson
Says Flacks, “Waiting Room began percolating as an idea almost seven years ago as I sat in a coccyx-crushing rocking chair in a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit with my baby son. During our nine-month sojourn there, and in the years to come, I could not have imagined the suffering I would witness or the deep humanity I’d encounter both from the medical staff and other parents. They became our world and our family. While inspired by my personal situation, Waiting Room is not my story – it has elements of my story as well as the stories of dozens of people I met and interviewed. It speaks to tricky, often insoluble questions of humanity that both patients and doctors confront when they find themselves on the precipice of life and death, and contemplate whether they should risk, or refrain.”
LISTING INFO:
Tarragon Theatre presents the world premiere of
Waiting Room
by Diane Flacks
Directed by Richard Greenblatt
Starring Ari Cohen, Michelle Monteith, Jordan Pettle, Warona Setshwaelo, Jane Spidell, Jenny Young
Set and Costume Design by Kelly Wolf
Lighting Design by Bonnie Beecher
Sound Design by Reza Jacobs
Video Design by Cameron Davis

Opens January 14 and runs to February 15, 2014 (previews from January 6)
Tarragon Theatre’s Mainspace, 30 Bridgman Avenue, Toronto, M5R 1X3
Tuesday-Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2:30pm and select Saturdays at 2:30pm: Jan.17, Jan.24, Jan.31
Tickets can be purchased through Patron Services at 416.531.1827 or by visiting www.tarragontheatre.com
Regular Tickets: $42-$55 (Previews: $23-$27)
Rush Tickets: For every performance excluding opening night, specially priced $15 Rush Tickets will be sold (subject to availability) in person at the Box Office two hours before show time. Follow us on Twitter @TarragonTheatre for regular updates on rush ticket availability and special ticket offers.

Canadian Rep Theatre Toronto How Do I Love Thee

Canadian Rep Theatre Toronto How Do I Love Thee

In February, 2015, Canadian Rep Theatre presents the Toronto premiere of Florence Gibson MacDonald’s How Do I Love Thee?, directed by Ken Gass, at Berkeley Street Upstairs Theatre. Penned by the author of the award-winning Belle and Home is My Road, How Do I Love Thee? is a language-rich exploration of both the euphoric and darker sides of the  marriage of Elizabeth Barrett (Browning) and Robert Browning, poets who enjoyed ‘rock star status’ at the heights of their careers. The production will preview January 31 – February 4, open February 5 and run until February 22. The production features a stellar cast with Irene Poole as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Edison as Robert Browning, Nora McLellan as Wilson and Richard McMillan as John Kenyon.

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HOW DO I LOVE THEE? by Florence Gibson MacDonald – Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs
Previews January 31 – February 4, opens February 5 and runs to February 22

 

Alumnae Theatre Blood Relations

Alumnae Theatre Blood Relations

TORONTO—Alumnae Theatre continues our 2014-2015 season with Sharon Pollock’s Governor General’s award-winning play Blood Relations January 23-February 7, 2015. Pollock’s play takes us on a psychological journey, bringing the past to life in a search for a possible answer, a motive. The only suspect, the real Lizzie Borden, was acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother, but in Blood Relations, the chilling question still repeats.

“Did you Lizzie? Did you?”

Rather than centering on the grisly details of the murders, the play focusses on the patriarchal oppressive society Lizzie Borden (played by Marisa King) has endured. Lizzie’s friend, and lover, The Actress (Andrea Brown) play a game of memory and imagination, reenacting moments of Lizzie’s life leading up to the murders as a play-in-a-play. Kathleen Jackson Allamby, Steven Burley, Rob Candy, Sheila Russell, and Thomas Gough play the cast of characters in Lizzie’s life. Director Barbara Larose has assembled an extremely talented cast and production team to bring this psychological murder mystery to the Alumnae Theatre MainStage.

“If no one looks in the mirror, I’m not even there. I don’t exist.”

Larose’s direction explores the play’s central themes of identity and the masks we wear. Blood Relations “asks questions about what is truth and about how we, as a society, treat those who are different in any way,” says Larose. “One of the more brilliant aspects of the play is how it speaks to us individually — who has not questioned their identity – their very worth – at one point or other in their lives?”

Blood Relations features a design and artistic team that includes Gabriel Cropley (lighting designer), Ed Rosing (set designer), Margaret Spence (costume designer), Rick Jones (sound designer) and Ellen Green (assistant director).

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