Crow's Theatre Announces an Eight-Show Season of Lionhearted, In-Theatre Shows Plus a Parallel Digital Lineup for the 2021.22

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Crow’s Theatre announces an eight-show season of lionhearted, in-theatre shows plus a parallel digital lineup for the 2021.22 season: Cliff Cardinal flips Shakespeare on his head, George F. Walker premieres a new comedy, and literary classics by Mikhail Bulgakov and André Alexis receive public workshops of new Canadian adaptations.

The eight-show season, beginning in September, includes the world premiere of Zorana Sadiq’s MIXTAPE, directed by Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham; the Toronto premiere of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Crow’s Theatre Associate Artistic Director Rouvan Silogix; the Canadian premiere of Branden Jacobs- Jenkins’s GLORIA, in association with ARC, directed by André Sills; and partnerships with Théâtre français de Toronto and Ross Petty Productions.

TORONTO (August 31, 2021) – Today, Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham and Executive Director Sherrie Johnson unveil a season welcoming audiences back to Streetcar Crowsnest with an invitation to rediscover the power of live theatre.

Beginning in September with Cliff Cardinal’s radical retelling of William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT, the Crow’s Theatre 2021.22 season is immediate, inspiring, and innovative. Characteristically Crow’s, this season of rebirth celebrates the sublime pleasure of gathering to think, feel, and make meaning together in changing times.

The 2021.22 season marks the launch of the BMO Virtual Stage, a parallel digital season featuring performance captures from the live season and from Crow’s Theatre Digital Residency Partners Soundstreams, Against the Grain Theatre, Red Sky Performance, and Outside the March, plus a return of Ghost Quartet and more.

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“Pulling together this season during such a challenging time has been a labour of love for the whole company. We can’t wait to welcome audiences back into the building, even at limited capacity for the time being. We’ve chosen to be inherently optimistic in planning our season but have put into place a lot of measures to keep our audience safe, including a requirement for all artists, staff, and audience members to be fully vaccinated. Along with this commitment, we wanted to give audiences options as to how they can join us to experience this year’s programming,” explains Executive Director Sherrie Johnson.

Artistic Director Chris Abraham adds, “We have a season that celebrates extraordinary artists who are facing the world head-on and looking for new ways for us to move forward together. In landscapes that are both real and imagined, of the moment and historical, our 2021.22 season is unabashedly urgent, contemporary, and immediate theatre.”

The title AS YOU LIKE IT, one of the most beloved comedies in Shakespeare’s canon, holds a double meaning that famously teases, this is a play to please all tastes. For this world premiere, acclaimed Indigenous creator Cliff Cardinal, known for his black humour and compassionate poeticism, has promised to do something just like that.

Crow’s will open the rehearsal hall to audiences for the first time this year, inviting them to be a part of the development of two new large-scale works. The first of two Crow’s Theatre Public Workshop presentations is MASTER AND MARGARITA, a new musical adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s famously banned novel The Master and Margarita. Hailey Gillis (Ghost Quartet) returns to Crow’s Theatre in October with collaborators Mikaela Davies and Polly Phokeev for an evening of magic, music, and demons.

The second public workshop presentation of the season is Marie Farsi’s (Ghost Quartet) adaptation of the esteemed Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. FIFTEEN DOGS follows a pack of Toronto dogs endowed with human consciousness by the gods Hermes and Apollo to settle a bet.

These two hugely resonant works of magic realism are set in motion by acts of divine intervention and take big swings at questions around existence and the human condition.

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Crowsnest Corner was launched in July and will continue through the fall, inviting audiences to safely enjoy live music again with some of Toronto’s finest musicians and performers from all genres. In the past few weeks, Blue Standard with Raoul Bhaneja and Jesse Whiteley, Raha Javanfar and Fraser Melvin, Tak Arikushi, Amélie Lefebvre, Allison Au, and Hailey Gillis and Andrew Penner have already performed at Crowsnest Corner. The concert stage and the Lobby Bar with its lively libations are welcoming and safe respites from a hard day’s work. Concerts will continue post-show once the theatre season begins.

In November, Crow’s welcomes the world premiere of Zorana Sadiq’s MIXTAPE, directed by Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham. This solo performance invites the audience into a life experienced through sound and music and an artist’s obsession with making, capturing, and understanding them. Sadiq curates the ultimate mixtape for life: part memoir, part scientific inquiry, and part love song to listening.

In December, Crow’s Theatre is very excited to be partnering with one of Toronto’s longest-running and most beloved holiday traditions, Ross Petty Productions annual family musical. ALICE IN WINTERLAND, this year’s panto, as it is affectionately called, will be a virtual presentation and a bonus production of the Crow’s Theatre 2021.22 digital season. A Choose Your Own Adventure performance, you’ll follow along with Alice, the Mad Hatter, or the ChesPfizer Cat for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience.

Crow’s is also thrilled about the return of The Dundas & Carlaw Holiday Corner, the east end’s newest holiday tradition, which includes a festive installation in the windows of Streetcar Crowsnest, a weekend market with vendors and artisans, and delicious treats from Gare de l’Est.

In January, Crow’s Theatre Associate Artistic Director Rouvan Silogix helms the Toronto premiere of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, by Rajiv Joseph. Pulitzer Prize short-listed, Tony Award nominated, and National Endowment for the Arts award winner for Outstanding New American Play, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO is set amid the chaos of the American occupation of Iraq and directly confronts the toll of war on faith, culture, and humanity.

In February, Crow’s is looking forward to welcoming ARC, an award-winning diverse and multidisciplined group of artists, and their production of GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon). A Canadian premiere, produced by ARC in association

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This spring sees the return of George F. Walker after a long absence from the Toronto theatre scene. ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR, directed by Tanja Jacobs, is Walker’s newest high-stakes comedy that ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific, decorated, and popular playwrights. Since beginning his theatre career in the early 1970s, Walker has written more than 30 plays, including Suburban Motel, Love and Anger, Problem Child, and Nothing Sacred.

In May, Crow’s Theatre proudly partners with Théâtre français de Toronto to present the Québécois, documentary-theatre, smash-hit SINGULIÈRES. For two years, playwright Maxime Beauregard-Martin and director Alexandre Fecteau, recipient of the Crow’s Theatre RBC Rising Star Emerging Director Prize, conducted multiple interviews with a group of single women in Québec pursuing happiness that does not include marriage and motherhood. A funny, lively, and surprising investigation, SINGULIÈRES redefines the contemporary single woman, in spite of society’s expectations.

The Crow’s Theatre Podcast in Residence series welcomes two new podcasts and the renewal of Soft Revolution, a podcast about everything that matters, hosted by Stars frontman Torquil Campbell and actor Ali Momen.

In October, Devyani Saltzman will launch a new podcast focusing on Canadian artists and arts workers at the forefront of their practice, with a specific focus on Black, Indigenous, POC, and LGBTQ2S artists pushing systems change. Devyani Saltzman is an arts and culture leader, curator, and programmer with deep roots in multidisciplinary and community-centred programming. Her first guest will be homegrown, UK-based, critically adored novelist, playwright, and director Jordan Tannahill, whose second novel, The Listeners, was recently published.

Interweaving research, conversations, family and expert interviews, Meghan Swaby and Sedina Fiati will host Beneath the Ceiba Tree, an exciting podcast about Caribbean folklore, exploring how its impact ripples through history to present day and beyond. This Crow’s Theatre Podcast-in-Residence is presented in association with Nightwood Theatre.

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Sedina Fiati, proudly of Trinidadian and Ghanaian descent, is a queer artist with over 15 years’ experience performing, producing, creating for stage and screen, with a current focus on work that combines social justice and art. Sedina is currently Artist/Activist in Residence at Nightwood Theatre and co-creator of the Black Pledge. Meghan Swaby is a first-generation Jamaican Canadian actor and playwright with over 10 years’ experience and work that is international in scope. Her play Venus' Daughter premiered at Obsidian Theatre in 2016 and she has several works in development, including commissions with Myseum of Toronto and the Stratford Festival.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Crow’s Theatre is offering three different Frequent Flyer subscription packages for this unprecedented season: #CompleteCrows, all six shows of the season plus two workshop presentations; #ValiantVoices, a curated package of four brave, bold, and lionhearted stories: AS YOU LIKE IT, MIXTAPE, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, and ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR; and #DesignYourOwnFlightPath, which offers the flexibility of choosing any four shows, excluding the workshops.

Not ready to come to the theatre yet, but don’t want to miss out? The Crow’s Theatre premiere, digital subscription package #BMOVirtualStage includes new, filmed performances of MIXTAPE, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR, and SINGULIÈRES and a rebroadcast of the smash-hit GHOST QUARTET, the haunted song cycle about love, death, and whisky, for an exclusive Halloween engagement.

Two new works from Crow’s Theatre’s 2021 Digital Residency will receive their world premieres as part of #BMOVirtualStage: GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES from Soundstreams and MISTATIM from Red Sky Performance.

A theatrical, filmed production with new work from composers Cecilia Livingston and Donna McKevitt, GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES is drawn from the journals of English artist and queer rights activist Derek Jarman and is devised and directed by Tim Albery.

MISTATIM is an unforgettable story of reconciliation for children and their families about taming a wild horse and the truest of friendships, conceived and directed by Sandra Laronde and written by Erin Shields.

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#BMOVirtualStage subscribers save 30% on the single ticket price and will be the first to know if any new works are added to the slate. Choose the date, log in at the designated start time, and enjoy unlimited viewing for 24 hours.

#CompleteCrows subscribers save 30% on single ticket prices, and all Crow’s Theatre subscribers receive a complimentary #BMOVirtualStage digital subscription.

As Streetcar Crowsnest is being prepared to welcome back audiences, Crow’s Theatre’s commitment to the health and safety of every patron, artist, and employee is paramount.

All patrons who visit Streetcar Crowsnest or Crowsnest Corner or attend performances must provide proof of vaccination, a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within six hours of the performance start time. Patrons can show either paper or electronic documentation, including a digital photograph.

Everyone inside the building and the Guloien Theatre must wear a mask at all times, unless eating or drinking while seated. Food and drink will not be allowed in the theatre at this time. Ticketholders will be reminded of these measures, along with any other COVID-19 protocols, via email. The vaccine policy, which also applies to all artists and staff, goes into effect on August 31, 2021.

All performances take place in the Guloien Theatre.

Subscription packages and single tickets on sale today!

Subscription Packages #CompleteCrows $340* #ValiantVoices $215* #DesignYourOwnFlightPath $226* #BMOVirtualStage $122* *Includes fees and HST.

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Single Ticket Prices Previews $35 Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 pm $50 Wednesday Matinee at 2 pm $40 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8 pm $55 Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 2 pm $50

All Public Workshop Presentations $25 #BMOVirtualStage Single Tickets $20

Student, senior, art worker, pay-what-you-can, and under-30 prices available.

To Purchase Tickets and Subscriptions: crowstheatre.com 647.341.7390 ext. 1010 [email protected] 345 Carlaw Avenue (at Dundas Street East)

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CROW’S THEATRE 2021.22 SEASON

AS YOU LIKE IT A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal A Crow’s Theatre Production Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest September 22 to October 10, 2021 Opening Night: Thursday, September 30, 2021 Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2 pm

The title AS YOU LIKE IT, one of the most beloved romantic comedies in Shakespeare’s canon, holds a double meaning that famously teases, this is a play to please all tastes. For this world premiere, acclaimed Indigenous creator Cliff Cardinal, known for his dark humour and compassionate poeticism, has promised to do something just like that.

Cliff Cardinal is a cultural provocateur, playwright, and performer who delights in difficult subject matter, raw emotions, and topical comedy. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Cardinal studied playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada and is an associate artist at VideoCabaret, where he develops his new work.

“One of the most talented and intriguing writers in the country.” – Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine

MASTER AND MARGARITA A New Musical Adaptation Created by Mikaela Davies, Hailey Gillis, Polly Phokeev Based on the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov A Crow’s Theatre Public Workshop Presentation Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest October 28, 29, 30, 2021 at 8 pm

A Crow’s Theatre commission and public workshop presentation, MASTER AND MARGARITA is a modern musical adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s famously banned novel The Master and Margarita. For three special nights in October, Crow’s Theatre invites audiences to experience a salon-style, work-in-progress performance in which the devil pays a visit to 1930s Moscow.

The devil and his crew have arrived to upend the Soviet bureaucracy under Stalin. The Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in a psychiatric hospital. Margarita, the Master’s devoted lover, agrees to sell her soul to the devil to rescue him from his dire fate. MASTER AND MARGARITA is an evocation of the human instinct to fight for love, to fight for connection, and to fight for freedom, even in the face of hate, censorship, and subjugation.

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The three multitalented and accomplished co-creators of MASTER AND MARGARITA are Mikaela Davies (The Changeling, Stratford Festival; Miss Bennett, The Citadel Theatre), Hailey Gillis (Ghost Quartet, Crow’s Theatre; Onegin, The Musical Stage Company), and Polly Phokeev (Seams, Summerworks Festival; How We Are, a site-specific work staged in private bedrooms).

MIXTAPE Written and Performed by Zorana Sadiq Directed by Chris Abraham A Crow’s Theatre Production Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest November 9 to 28, 2021 Opening Night: Friday, November 12, 2021 Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2pm > Digital run: December 2 to 19, 2021 (dark on Monday)

The first thing we do in life is make sound. For writer, performer, and musician Zorana Sadiq (Towards Youth, Crow’s Theatre), sound is our first, last, and most influential sense. In the world premiere of her new solo show, directed by Crow’s Theatre Artistic Director Chris Abraham, Sadiq invites her audience into a life experienced through sounds and an obsession with making them. From Neil Diamond to Kate Bush, from show tunes to Mozart, and from squeaky oven doors to the thwap of a heartbeat on an ultrasound, Sadiq curates the ultimate mixtape, which is part memoir, part scientific inquiry, and part love song to listening.

A multidisciplinary artist of Pakistani descent, Zorana Sadiq creates work that is wide ranging and spans different types of performance, including theatre, television, chamber music, contemporary music, and opera. Sadiq has performed extensively in Canada and the United States alongside many of classical music’s leading conductors, including Bramwell Tovey, Robert Spano, and Alex Pauk, and has appeared with Music Toronto at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Vancouver Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Musica Viva, and New York’s Da Capo Chamber Players.

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO Written by Rajiv Joseph Directed by Rouvan Silogix

A Crow’s Theatre Production Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest January 11 to 30, 2022 Opening Night: Friday, January 14, 2022 Tuesday to Saturday 8pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2 pm Performed in English and Arabic > Digital run: February 3 to 20, 2022 (dark on Monday) Page 9

“Smart, savagely funny, and visionary new work.” – Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

Pulitzer Prize short-listed, Tony Award nominated, and National Endowment for the Arts award winner for Outstanding New American Play, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO is set amid the chaos of the American occupation of Iraq. A darkly comic tale narrated by an existentially minded tiger held captive in the Baghdad Zoo, the play follows the intertwined lives of two American marines and one Iraqi gardener as they search through the rubble of war for friendship, redemption, and a toilet seat made of gold.

Playwright Rajiv Joseph is a two-time Obie Award winner for Best New American Play for Guards at the Taj and Describe the Night, which also won a Lucille Lortel Award. Director Rouvan Silogix, Crow’s Theatre Associate Artistic Director, was a finalist for the RBC Rising Star Emerging Director Prize and served as assistant director on Julius Caesar at Crow’s Theatre.

FIFTEEN DOGS Written and Directed by Marie Farsi Based on the novel Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis A Crow’s Public Workshop Presentation Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest February 10 to 12 and 17 to 19, 2022 Thursday and Friday 8 pm Saturday 2 pm

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a pack of dogs in a Toronto veterinary clinic. The pack escapes the clinic and is quickly divided between those embracing their newfound capacity for complex thoughts and the ones resisting emotion and intelligence. The gods watch from above as the dogs discover both the poetry and the pitfalls of human consciousness.

A modern fable, FIFTEEN DOGS pays tribute to the profound relationship between humans and dogs while offering us the opportunity to examine what it means to be alive and know our own true nature.

André Alexis was born in Trinidad, raised in Ottawa, and lives in Toronto. His novel Fifteen Dogs, a beloved, global bestseller, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. Marie Farsi directed the wildly successful Ghost Quartet for Crow’s Theatre, where she served as Associate Artistic Director for the 2018.19 and 2020.21 seasons.

GLORIA Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by André Sills An ARC Production in Association with Crow’s Theatre

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Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest March 1 to 20, 2022 Opening Night: Friday, March 4, 2022 Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2 pm

“Whip-smart satire of fear and loathing in a beleaguered industry under siege.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

An ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine vie for a starry life of feature articles and book deals, all while the internet is completely upending their industry. When an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, these aspiring journalists recognize an opportunity to seize a career-defining moment. A Canadian premiere, GLORIA tells a story of the lingering effects of trauma in a time when what sells is more important than the truth.

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s many honours include Obie Awards for Best New American Play for Appropriate and An Octoroon, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama for Gloria in 2016, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Paula Vogel Award, a Fulbright Arts Grant, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Director and ARC Resident Artist André Sills has appeared at Crow’s Theatre in Julius Caesar, at Stratford Festival in the title role in Robert LePage’s Coriolanus, and at Shaw Festival as the lead in An Octoroon, directed by Peter Hinton.

ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR Written by George F. Walker Directed by Tanja Jacobs Suggested by the novel The Life of a Useless Man by Maxim Gorky A Crow’s Theatre Production Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest March 29 to April 17, 2022 Opening Night: Friday, April 1, 2022 Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2 pm > Digital run: April 21 to May 8, 2022 (dark on Monday)

ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR is George F. Walker’s newest high-stakes comedy that ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. Suggested by the novel The Life of a Useless Man by Maxim Gorky and set shortly before Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, a hapless double agent tries to stay on the right side of both the revolutionaries and the czarists.

George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific, decorated, and popular playwrights. Since beginning his theatre career in the early 1970s, Walker has written more than 30 plays including Suburban Motel, Love and Anger, Nothing Sacred, and Problem Child. Tanja Jacobs has directed

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George Bernard Shaw’s Getting Married at Shaw Festival, Twelfth Night at Canadian Stage, and La Bête at Soulpepper.

SINGULIÈRES Written by Maxime Beauregard-Martin Directed by Alexandre Fecteau Crow’s Theatre and Théâtre français de Toronto Present Le collectif Nous sommes ici, le Théâtre Catapulte, and La Bordée Coproduction Guloien Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest June 2 to 10, 2022 Opening Night: Friday, June 3, 2022 Tuesday to Saturday 8 pm Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 2 pm > Digital run: June 11 to 26, 2022 (dark on Monday) Performed in French with English Subtitles

“Singulières is a must-see, without a doubt.” – Radio-Canada

For two years, playwright Maxime Beauregard-Martin and director Alexandre Fecteau followed a group of single women, age thirty and over, in Québec as they each pursued a path to happiness and pushed past the stereotype that women can only be fulfilled through marriage and motherhood.

A funny, lively, and sensitive investigation, SINGULIÈRES redefines the contemporary single woman by exploring themes of feminism, autonomy, and the Catholic conventions with deep roots in Québec culture. Through intertwining interviews, live camera work, and the imaginative use of green-screen technology, SINGULIÈRES offers a series of beautiful stories about women who, in spite of society’s expectations, are leading fulfilling and fascinating lives.

Documentary theatre-makers and regular collaborators, Maxime Beauregard-Martin is a playwright and performer and Alexandre Fecteau is an award-winning director and playwright as well as Artistic Director of le collectif Nous sommes ici.

NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ROSS PETTY PRODUCTIONS AND CROW’S THEATRE

ALICE IN WINTERLAND Written by Matt Murray Directed by Mike Fly and Tracey Flye Ross Petty Productions in Association with Crow’s Theatre December 18 & 19, 2021 > A Virtual Production

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“No holiday season is complete without a Ross Petty production. Big laughs and big fun for the whole family!” – CTV News

The holiday season wouldn’t be the same without the annual Ross Petty Productions family musical, so for the second year, the holiday panto can be enjoyed across Canada with a brand-new virtual production. ALICE IN WINTERLAND doubles the fun with a Choose Your Own Adventure production from the comfort of your own home.

Will Alice fall down the rabbit hole or get invited to a tea party? You decide! Can Alice, along with her trusty guardian Plumbum (a perfectly wonderful addition to the outrageous characters Alice encounters), stop the evil ice witch Frostina from turning the lushness of Wonderland into a frozen Winterland? Cheer for the gals, boo the evil witch, and choose Alice’s “curiouser and curiouser” adventure.

Tickets are $35 per household. For more information and to purchase, visit rosspetty.com.

#BMOVIRTUALSTAGE

GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES Devised and Directed by Tim Albery Part of Soundstreams’ 2021 Digital Residency at Crow’s Theatre > September 23 to October 10, 2021 (dark on Monday)

If modern gardening has a patron saint, it must be English artist, filmmaker, and queer rights activist Derek Jarman. As the AIDS plague took his friends one by one and he himself faced an increasingly uncertain future, he discovered his own form of hope, resilience, and solace in his garden by the sea. Cecilia Livingston writes deeply felt songs of love and loss, and they chime perfectly with Donna McKevitt's heart-aching songs that use beautiful texts drawn from Jarman’s journals. Their works are intertwined in GARDEN OF VANISHED PLEASURES, a fully staged production for digital broadcast, devised and directed by Tim Albery.

MISTATIM Conceived and Directed by Sandra Laronde Written by Erin Shields Part of Red Sky Performance’s 2021 Digital Residency at Crow’s Theatre > September 30 to October 17, 2021 (dark on Monday)

Children and families are invited to experience MISTATIM, a digital reimagining of Red Sky Performance’s acclaimed production. An unforgettable story of reconciliation, conceived and directed by Sandra Laronde and written by Erin Shields, MISTATIM is about the taming of a wild horse and the truest of friendships. Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his Page 13 ranch and Speck on her reservation. In many ways, they are worlds apart, until a wild horse turns their worlds upside down.

GHOST QUARTET Written and Composed by Dave Malloy Directed by Marie Farsi A Crow’s Theatre Digital Production > October 29 to 31, 2021

A haunted song cycle about love, death, and whisky, the smash-hit GHOST QUARTET returns for a special, digital, Halloween engagement, featuring the original cast of Beau Dixon, Hailey Gillis, Kira Guloien, and Andrew Penner. Four friends sing, drink, and tell stories that span seven centuries in this surreal, chamber musical of murder ballads, doo-wop, jazz noise, and a purgatorial intermezzo.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

#ValiantVoices $215* A curated package of four brave, bold, and lionhearted stories. AS YOU LIKE IT | MIXTAPE | BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO | ORPHANS FOR THE CZAR

All Crow’s in-theatre subscribers receive a complimentary #BMOVirtualStage digital subscription.

To Purchase Subscriptions crowstheatre.com 647.341.7390 ext. 1010 [email protected], 345 Carlaw Avenue (at Dundas Street East)

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SUPPORTER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Crow’s Theatre thanks its major corporate, government, foundation, and individual funders who have made the 2021.22 season possible.

BMO – Lead Season Sponsor Sylvia Soyka – Lead Season Patron Hussain Amarshi Margaret Atwood – Support for FIFTEEN DOGS BNP Paribas Charles Brindamour and Josée Letarte – Support for SINGULIÉRES John Duffy and Jill Presser Donald Guloien and Irene Boychuk Hal Jackman Foundation – Supporting Sponsor of AS YOU LIKE IT The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation Heather Jessiman Nancy Lockhart and The Murray Frum Foundation The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C. McLean Smits Family Foundation T.R. Meighen Family Foundation Sandra and Jim Pitblado Tim and Frances Price Andy and Valerie Pringle RBC Foundation – Support for the RBC Rising Star Emerging Director Prize Richard Rooney and Laura Dinner Gretchen and Donald Ross Bob and Martie Sachs – Support for FIFTEEN DOGS The Slaight Family Foundation – Support for Creative Residencies and The Slaight Performance Series TD Bank Group – Support for Crow’s Theatre’s Nationwide Multiplatform Program

Crow’s Theatre gratefully acknowledges annual support from Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

CROW’S THEATRE ignites passionate and enduring engagement between our audiences and artists by creating, producing, and promoting unforgettable theatre that examines and illuminates the pivotal narratives of our times. Founded in 1983, Crow’s Theatre has premiered over 50 new, daring, Canadian works, including the multiple-award-winning production of Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love; John Mighton’s A Short History of Night, James O’Reilly’s Time After Time: The Chet Baker Project, Lee MacDougall’s High Life, Annabel Soutar’s The Watershed, Kristen Thomson’s The Wedding Party, Julius Caesar and Tartuffe with Groundling Theatre Company, The Flick with Outside the March, and Emil Sher’s adaptation of Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon. Page 15