TAKING STOCK
Ben Caplan at the Segal Centre
CANDYASS CABARET
Cafe Cleopatra,
1230 boul. St. Laurent
Candyass Cabaret
Sept. 21, 9 p.m.
The Candyass Club Cabaret presents a monthly cabaret with a stellar cast and new acts every 3rd Friday. #thirdfridays. Featuring a tasty eclectic blend of artists in the heart of the historic entertainment district on the Main. Doors open 8 p.m. Showtime 9 p.m. $12 at the door. Comedy! Vaudeville! and MORE! Talent! Whoopee! Fun & Frolics!
Candyass Cabaret Thanksgiving Oct. 19, 9 p.m.
Tis the Harvest season and the Candyass gang gathers for a Harvest pageant shaking tail feathers and more.
Impeachable the Cabaret Nov. 16, 9 p.m. Impeachable the Cabaret featuring Jimmy Phule MC. It’s the political satire themed cabaret featuring performers such as Damiana Dolce, Nat King Pole, Roxie Hardon, Kathy Slamen Dawn Ford and more. 514-871-8066 www.candyasscabaret@gmail.com INFINITHÉÂTRE
Fight On! Part 2 by Guy Sprung with iconic and ironic commentary by Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibway, Curve Lake)
Espace Knox in N.D.G.,
6215 ave Godfrey
March 12-14, 8 p.m./2 p.m. Francis Jeffery Dickens arrives in Canada in 1874 with all the prejudices and presumptions of a white colonist/settler. After serving 11 years as a member of the North West Mounted Police, horrified by the mendacity and theft that robbed the Indigenous Peoples of their lands, Frank learns to respect the traditions and wisdom of First Nations culture and begins to understand the urgent need to live in harmony with Mother Nature.
Kafka’s Ape by Franz Kafka, adapted by Guy Sprung
Various Venues in Montréal, see website for venue details
Feb. 8-27, 8 p.m./2 p.m. Captured on the Gold Coast and imprisoned in a cage, Redpeter’s only escape route is to become a walking, talking, spitting, hard-drinking member of the Peace Industry, the entrepreneurial world of mercenary soldiers that is one of the biggest growth industries of the 21st century. In detailing the journey of his enforced evolution from Apedom to Humandom, Mr. Redpeter is a living embodiment of the irony that perhaps now he is more animal than he ever was as an ape.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Transforming the Voices of Montréal Moyse Hall at McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke St W
Oct. 22-27, 8 p.m. / 2 p.m.
The McGill Department of English presents Infinithéâtre in collaboartion with Early Modern Conversions Project in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Tranforming the Voices of Montréal. Under the guidance of Mask Master Brian Smith, using comic half masks and under the ‘trance’ of the mask, actors will find contemporary characters and situations to render the obscure Elizabethan language and word-play understandable to a contemporary audience. This production will allow the distinct voices of Montréal, discovered by the magic of the comic half-mask, to distil the words of Shakespeare into stories and emotions so contemporary they will sound as if spoken on the streets and subways of Montréal today. Through action, through distinct character choices which the mask work forces an actor to make, the myriad of potential meanings of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan poetry are distilled into limpid clarity for our contemporary audience.
The Pipeline
Espace Knox in N.D.G,
6215 ave Godfrey
Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 7 p.m./2 p.m. Infinithéâtre proudly presents The Pipeline, our annual public reading series of plays that are in coming down our development pipeline. Audience feedback takes centre stage as Infinithéâtre invites the public to catch the excitement and share their views on plays that we are considering for production in future seasons. The winning play of our Write-On-Q! playwriting competition is always featured in this readings series. Write On-Q! draws in submissions from first-time playwrights, students and from established writers including Québec’s most celebrated playwrights. For Infinithéâtre’s Artistic Director, Guy Sprung, The Pipeline reading series has become a vital step in the process of developing new plays and making programming choices for Infinithéâtre’s upcoming seasons.
The Unit Cohort 2 Reading Week The Centaur, FreeStanding Room & Segal Centre, Visit website for venue details
Sept. 20-23, 7 p.m./2 p.m. Infinithéâtre invited seven Québec playwrights, developing seven unique plays, each play sponsored by a different Québec English-language theatre, for a twelve-month intensive playwriting unit under the guidance of dramaturge and playwright, Alexandria Haber. Join us for a week of “by donation” staged readings and share your feedback after each play. 514-987-1774 ext 104 www.Infinitheatre.com LAKESHORE PLAYERS DORVAL Lakeside Academy Theatre, 5050 Sherbrooke, Lachine
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Nov. 8-17, See our website for details. This Tony award-winning drama is based on the true story of Helen Keller who was left blind and deaf from a childhood illness. Her governess and teacher, Annie Sullivan, endeavors to give young Helen structure and the ability to communicate but the Keller family dynamic soon proves to be part of the problem. Directed by Donna Byrne.
The Odd Couple, Female Version by Neil Simon
Feb. 7-16, See our website for details A carefree divorcée, Olive Madison, offers to share her apartment with her sensitive and persnickety friend, Florence Unger, when Florence`s 14-year marriage hits the rocks. This timeless comedy about putting years of friendship to the test in close quarters will keep you in stitches and warm your heart. Directed by Glen Bowser
Opening Night by Norm Foster
May 9-18, See our website for details The curtain is about to rise on the first performance of Whisper on the Wind and director Richard Hyde-Finch is eager for accolades. If only the unpredictable actors and audience members would “follow the script” on opening night. This laugha-minute comedy shines a whimsical spotlight on the Canadian theatre scene and will have you shouting Bravo! Directed by Corey Castle 514-631-8718 www.lakeshoreplayersdorval.com SCAPEGOAT CARNIVALE Montreal, Arts interculturels, 3680 Jeanne Mance St.
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March 14-24, 8 p.m., 2 p.m. matinees on selected days 514-982-1812 www.scapegoatcarnivale.com
SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS
5170 Cote-Sainte-Catherine
Once
Oct. 7-28, time varies
Winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical. On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music, and an unexpected friendship quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story. From the very first note, Once draws you in and never lets go. This achingly beautiful, joyously uplifting show strikes an unforgettable chord in audiences and speaks to the power of music to connect us all.
A Doll’s House, Part 2
Nov. 18-Dec. 9, time varies
A sharp and witty sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Fifteen years after Nora Helmer infamously slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, she has returned with an urgent request. Before she can get what she needs, however, she must reckon with the family she left in her wake. Lucas Hnath’s funny, probing, and bold new play is at once a continuation of Ibsen’s complex exploration of traditional gender roles and a clever contemporary take on the struggles inherent in all human relationships.
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story Dec. 4-16, time varies
A wildy polular, genre-bending spectacle! Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humourously dark folk tale woven together with a high energy concert. This sumptuous Klezmerfolk music-theatre hybrid starring the sensational Ben Caplan is inspired by the true stories of two Jewish Romanian refugees coming to Canada in 1908. It’s about how to love and find our shared humanity after facing the horrors of war. 514-739-7944 https://www.segalcentre.org/en/ shows/once
TASHME PRODUCTIONS AND CENTAUR THEATRE
The Centaur Theatre,
453 St Francois Xavier Street
The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
Nov. 15-24, Thursday-Saturday 8:30 p.m., Saturday 2:30 p.m., Sunday 1:30 p.m. Please check website to confirm times.
The Tashme Project is a 75-minute verbatim or documentary-style play that has been carefully pieced together from over 70 hours of interview time with 20 Nisei, or 2nd generation Japanese Canadians from across Canada. The play traces the history of the Nisei through childhood, internment and post-WWII resettlement east of the Rockies. Now seniors, the Nisei were children at the time of internment and their memories of adventure and play are presented here in sharp relief to the more common internment narratives of hardship and injustice. Moving from voice to voice and story to story with fluidity and constructed gracefulness, the piece is performed by its creators Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa, as a tribute to Nisei character, language, spirit and story. 514-288-3161 http://www.thetashmeproject.com
TEESRI DUNIYA
MAI, 3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, bureau 103
Birthmark by Stephen Orlov
Nov. 3-18, 2 p.m. or 8 p.m. 514-982-3386 (box office) http://www.teesriduniyatheatre. com/en/home/
THÉÂTRE INCLINÉ
Maison de la culture Maisonneuve, 4200 Ontario St. E.
NORDICITÉ / Meeting Point
Nov. 13-15, 8 p.m.
Four years ago, author and director José Babin set out on an unusual circumpolar adventure and crossed paths with wonderful peoples and territories. North of the Norwegian polar circle, she created the play NORDICITÉ, an intimate testimony of her voyage. After two Norwegian tours, the show is back in Montreal offering an experience that goes beyond the mere stage. NORDICITÉ / Meeting point invites the audience on their own journey to the North. In each and every corner of the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve artists from Montreal and Nunavik will be presenting their very diverse visions of the Northern culture. 514-872-2200 http://theatreincline.ca/spectacleet-creations/nordicite-eng/
TOHU
2345 rue Jarry Est
Le Songe d’une nuit d’été
Jan. 30-Feb. 10, 8 p.m. and 2 p.m on Sunday
Shakespeare’s most celebrated comedy gets an acrobatic flip! This theatrical production with strong circus elements made a name for itself with its daring originality, garnering all kinds of accolades in the process. A jealous king, a flighty queen of the fairies, two sets of lovers on the run and a mediocre theatre group all cross paths in an enchanted forest on a midsummer night. When the mischievous Puck mistakenly distributes a love potion, passions run high. A spirited ode to desire, Shakespeare’s most celebrated comedy gets a shot of adrenaline thanks to the pacing and energy of the Flip FabriQue acrobats, who set the tone for a very physical acting style overall. A fresh and irresistible interpretation that defies convention and brings a new level of exuberance to the theatre. 514-376-8648 tohu.ca