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TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL mounts British Play
Bluebeard at The Tarragon Theatre – Main Space
July 2nd- 13th
A dark comic exploration of isolation, betrayal, apocalypse... and parenthood
May 21st, 2008 Toronto, ON- Savage. Exhilarating. Haunting. BLUEBEARD is a unique and modern tale. Only at the FRINGE.
Raised inside an abandoned church since they were babies, four women have been taught to fear the outside world. Locked in to keep them safe from an ice storm, they exist in a makeshift society controlled by their tortured matriarch, Blue. Rooster, Monkey and Piglet all live under Blue’s house rules instilled in them by their older sibling Miss King. Dissension erupts when a mysterious outsider, Mignon, breaches the church gates, revealing the evocative truth behind the locks and keys. Mignon tries to convince the women that there is a beautiful safe world outside. But can Mignon be trusted? Bluebeard is a dark comic exploration of isolation, betrayal, apocalypse... and parenthood.
This uniquely written tour de force highlights one of London’s finest upcoming playwrights. In its Canadian debut, Bluebeard is a stunning piece of new work, brought to life by a fierce force of female actors including Christine Horne (The Stone Angel).
Show: BLUEBEARD
Venue: The Tarragon Theatre – Main Space
Performance Times: July– Wed 2nd 10:30pm, Sat 5th 5:15pm, Mon 7th 8pm, Tue 8th 3pm, Thurs 10th 12noon, Fri 11th 8:45pm, Sun 13th 5:15pm
Production Company: GromKat Productions
Director: David Matheson
Writer: Pericles Snowdon
Cast: Rae Ellen Bodie, Christine Horne, Melee Hutton, Kat Lanteigne Andrea Runge, Catherine McGregor
Children being locked away by adults, to keep them ‘safe’ from the ‘outside world’, was a premise that was difficult for the all female cast of Bluebeard to embrace. Then came the news of the 73-year-old father in Austria who had locked his daughter in a tiny basement for almost 24years. Similar in theme, the children of the FLDS were hidden from the secular world by parents who argued they were keeping their children safe by isolating them in their community. It had become clear that Pericles Snowdon’s Bluebeard was a remarkably poignant and relevant piece of theatre and that a sub-culture of ‘hiding’ children really did exist.
Kat Lanteigne (recent graduate of the Bristol Old Vic, UK) was in the off-broadway production of Bluebeard in ’07 and wanted to bring it home to Toronto audiences. Kat scoured the city to find the perfect female ensemble to take on the challenging script, and was overwhelmed by the response with over 200 submissions. David Matheson (of last years Seagull at Equity Showcase) directs this inimitable and compelling show.
For more information and tickets please contact:
The Fringe Hotline Number: 416-966-1062
Media Contact:: Kat Lanteigne – Producer – C:647.272.7381 jimmydelaco@gmail.com
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