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50th ANNIVERSARY SEASON
2009 - 2010
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Click here for our 2010 - 2011 Season
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| April 2 - 25, 2010 Preview: April 1 ($6.00) Opening April 2 Talkback: April 8 Canadian Première THE BREATH OF LIFE by David Hare Director: Adam Henderson Gauguin’s epithet “Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge” is the motto for this story of two women whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understands. When they finally meet, the progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course of their lives. |
| June 4 - 27, 2010 Preview: June 3 ($6.00) Opening June 4 Talkback: June 10 THE MISANTHROPE by Molière Director: C.W. (Toph) Marshall Exasperated by the corruption of society, with all the false talk, the flattery, the lies and the cheating, the cynical but noble Alceste wrestles with his love for the oh so worldly, superficial and coquettish Celimene. One of Moliere’s great comic masterpieces. |
| Sept 3 – 26, 2010 Preview: Sept 2 ($6.00) Opening: Sept 3 Talkback: Sept 9 Canadian Première THE POWER OF YES by David Hare “Capitalism works when greed and fear are in the correct balance. This time they got out of balance. Too much greed, not enough fear.” On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt. As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work that sought to find out what had happened and why. “If you want to understand the financial crises you should go to the theatre” [Independent] |
| Nov 12 – Dec 5 Preview: Nov 11 ($6.00) Opening: Nov 12 Talkback: Nov 18 MRS KLEIN by Nicholas Wright In 1934, the son of Britain’s most admired psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein, was reported killed in a climbing accident. There were no witnesses. Nicholas Wright’s play shows the effect of this shattering and unexpected death on Mrs. Klein, on her daughter and on her new assistant Paula, a young refugee from Hitler’s Berlin. Mr. Wright’s haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships played at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2009. |
| Jan 21 – Feb 13, 2011 Preview: Jan 20 ($6.00) Opening: Jan 21 Talkback: Jan 27 WASTE by Harley Granville Barker “A scandal half-sifted is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody’s mercy.” Waste is a rich portrait of early 20th century society which, in dramatizing the hypocrisy, sexual scandals and ruthless power machinations of the time, is as powerfully relevant today as when it was first written in 1909. Controversially banned by the Lord Chamberlain when first presented at the Imperial Theatre, Waste had its first full public performance 29 years later at the Westminster. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre London, September 2008. |
| Apr 1 – 24 Preview: Mar 31 ($6.00) Opening: Apr 1 Talkback: Apr 7 ROSMERSHOLM by Henrik Ibsen, a new version by Mike Poulon Believed by many to be Ibsen’s dramatic masterpiece, Rosmersholm presents a portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism. Johannes Rosmer has resigned as parish priest following the death of his wife. But his increasingly liberal ideas make him an object of suspicion to the local worthies who also disapprove of the presence in his house of a much younger woman. |
| Jun 3 – 26 Preview: Jun 2 ($6.00) Opening: Jun 2 Talkback: Jun 9 Canadian Première OUR CLASS by Tadeusz Slobodzianek Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek confronts his country’s involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates – amidst the weddings, parades, births, deaths, emigrations and reconciliations – into the next. This is Poland, 1925. A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions but as the children grow up their country is torn apart. Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops. |
| All performances take place at the Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery, Thursdays to Sundays at 8:00 pm. Season Subscriptions on sale now at www.unitedplayers.com or phone 604-224-8007. |
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