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May
17
Sat
The Killer – Theater For A New Audience, NYC
May 17 @ 8:15 pm – Jun 29 @ 9:15 pm

THE KILLER – Theater For A New Audience, Brooklyn, NC
By Eugène Ionesco
Newly Translated: Michael Feingold
Direction: Darko Tresnjak
Featuring Michael Shannon

May 17-June 29, 2014

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A searing and darkly funny parable about violence and resistance, Ionesco’s The Killer premiered in Paris in 1959 and has become a modern classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. Berenger, Ionesco’s cheerful, well-meaning everyman, discovers a “radiant city” near his dismal urban home, a perpetually sunny, impeccably clean place full of marvelous architecture and delicious food. The one hitch: a serial murderer has been brazenly killing people there for so long that the authorities have given up trying to catch him.

Oscar nominee (Revolutionary RoadMichael Shannon plays Berenger. Our production will bring out the humor and taut film noir aura of this work, underscoring the cinematic allure of the murders, the futile chase, the bungled investigation and the climactic confrontation with the criminal. The exquisitely simple approach will spotlight powerful, precise acting and spare, sculptural design.

May
28
Wed
Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario
May 28 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

May 28 – Oct 11, 2014

By Noël Coward

Directed by Alisa Palmer

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Stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two grown children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and if they can survive the weekend with their own wits intact.

 

 

 

Jul
11
Fri
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a chamber play) – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
Jul 11 @ 6:15 am – Sep 20 @ 7:15 am

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a chamber play) – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

a chamber play

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Sellars

Location to be announced 
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About the Play
Two couples become gods, animals, demons, monsters, children, playthings and, finally, gradually, compassionate, honest, loving adults. Across one intense night of confusion, delusion, repression, permission, forgiveness and release, Shakespeare’s masterpiece moves right into the open heart of our multiple selves and conflicted identities – the only thing that we know for certain in this life is that, along with the climate, we are changing.

Jul
19
Sat
Christina, The Girl King, Canada
Jul 19 @ 5:00 am – Sep 21 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

Jul 29 – Sept 21, 2014

By Michel Marc Bouchard

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Directed by Vanessa Porteous

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Enigmatic, flamboyant and unpredictable, with a passion for philosophy and the arts, Sweden’s Queen Christina seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in Europe. But her personal aspirations – and her unconventional sexuality – put her profoundly at odds with her culture’s expectations of her, both as a monarch and as a woman.

 

 

 

Jul
31
Thu
The Beaux’ Stratagem, Stratford, Ontario
Jul 31 @ 5:15 am – Oct 11 @ 6:15 am

Stratford Festival

Jul 31 – Oct 11, 2014

By George Farquhar
Directed by Antoni Cimolino

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In a desperate bid to restore their ruined fortunes by pursuing wealthy women, Mr. Archer courts the unhappily married Mrs. Sullen while Mr. Aimwell dallies with her sister-in-law, Dorinda. But the two beaux aren’t the only ones with larcenous designs – nor do they realize that their own hearts might be susceptible to ensnarement.

 

 

Aug
3
Sun
Antony and Cleopatra – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
Aug 3 @ 6:15 am – Sep 20 @ 7:15 am

Antony and Cleopatra – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Gary Griffin


Tom Patterson Theatre

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About The Play

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.