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A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to Soulpepper’s 2015 season, our biggest, boldest, and most diverse season ever. Soulpepper is your theatre company. It belongs to the citizens of this city and, as such, holds a unique position in the national theatre ecology.

Our profoundly gifted company of artists are, like you, citizens of this community and represent the cultural, generational, and artistic diversity of your city.

The work on our stages looks out to the world while simultaneously focusing on our national voices. Our offerings are multi-disciplinary and expansive in their scope; they acknowledge the gifts of our collective cultural past while imagining our creative future as a nation.

This is the Soulpepper to which you belong, and in 2015 there will be a large and generous ensemble of your city’s finest artists to welcome you.

With your 2015 Soulpepper subscription you will have the opportunity to see a full slate of Large Scale Plays from the international and national repertoire. You will also be able to enjoy our brand new Studio Series, and our rapidly growing Concert Series, all in the same package.

This new ultimate flexibility allows you to plan your Soulpepper calendar with a package of shows as diverse as Soulpepper itself.

I am very proud of what this company has achieved in its first decade and a half, but I am even more excited about what we will achieve together in the future!

I’ll see you there.

Best,

A l b e r t S c h u l t z , Artistic Director so u l p e p p e r f o u n d i n g m e m b e r s Martha Burns Susan Coyne Ted Dykstra Michael Hanrahan

Stuart Hughes Diana Leblanc Diego Matamoros Nancy Palk

Albert Schultz Robyn Stevan William Webster Joseph Ziegler

E xecutive Direc tor Leslie Lester

cover: (top right) oliver dennis, michelle monteith, dan chameroy, jeff lillico, raquel duffy, courtney ch'ng lancaster, paolo santalucia, in rehearsal for Of Human Bondage (2014).

Gregory Prest, Albert Schultz and MichelLe Monteith in rehearsal for Of Human Bondage (2014).

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SOULPEPPER’S 2015 SEASON Accidental Death of an Anarchist

JAN – FEB

Dario Fo

Translated by Jon Laskin and Michael Aquilante }{

Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo crafts a biting, satirical farce inspired by the bombing of Milan’s Piazza Fontana in 1969. In Fo’s masterful hands a tragic situation turns into a madcap romp and a powerful act of political theatre.

The Dining Room

FEB – MAR

A.R. Gurney }{

If this furniture could talk, what tales would it tell? A.R. Gurney’s touching comedy weaves together dozens of lives, intertwining multiple generations, around an everyday dining room table.

Six members of the Soulpepper ensemble seamlessly portray over 50 memorable characters in a virtuoso theatrical experience.

Bedroom Farce

MAY – JUN

Alan Ayckbourn }{

Four couples, three bedrooms, and one farce by British comic master Alan Ayckbourn, playwright of last year’s Soulpepper hit The Norman Conquests.

Of Human Bondage

MAY – JUN

Vern Thiessen

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham }{

Winner of seven Dora Awards, including Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Play, and Outstanding Direction, Soulpepper’s acclaimed production returns. Of Human Bondage is an epic tale of lust, obsession, and the pursuit of beauty adapted for the stage for Soulpepper

by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen.

“Achingly beautiful... An eerily gorgeous production” – The Globe and Mail

“The shimmer of sheer greatness... Bravo!”

– Toronto Star

“A rich and beautifully rendered story that you don’t want to miss” – Post City Magazines

Spoon River

MAR

Adapted by Mike Ross & Albert Schultz Composed by Mike Ross

Edgar Lee Masters’ seminal collection of poems of the Based on Spoon River dead are brought to vibrant Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters life in this original musical }{ adaptation. Spoon River’s long-deceased residents narrate their own epitaphs, telling of their lives, loves, losses, and hard-earned truths, in an immersive portrait of early 20thcentury rural America.

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The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds

MAY – JUN

Anton Piatigorsky Based on the play by S. Ansky }{

The most celebrated play of Yiddish literature is presented in a new adaptation by award-winning Canadian playwright Anton Piatigorsky. Boundaries between the natural and supernatural worlds dissolve as ill-fated pledges and untimely deaths ensnare two families in this tale of powerful young love and spiritual possession.

Eurydice

MAY – JUN

Sarah Ruhl }{

Sarah Ruhl, one of the finest living American playwrights, adapts the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of his wife, Eurydice, in this playful and profound contemporary retelling.

Ms. Ruhl’s magical play about the joys and trials of living and dying invites the happiest kind of commemoration.

Marat / Sade

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

SEP – OCT

Peter Weiss

Translated by GEOFFREY SKELTON VERSE ADAPTATION BY ADRIAN MITCHELL }{

Albert Schultz directs a huge Soulpepper ensemble in this rich, highly theatrical, and rarely performed 20th-century masterpiece.

– The New York Times

The Play’s the Thing

SEP – OCT

Ferenc MolnÁr adapted by P.G. Wodehouse }{

Soulpepper revisits one of its greatest productions from the company’s earliest days with a fresh look at P.G. Wodehouse’s deeply funny adaptation of Molnar’s celebrated take on theatrical life. generously supported by

Happy Place

Yours Forever, MaRIE-Lou

SEP – OCT

Michel Tremblay Translated by Linda Gaboriau }{

This is Soulpepper’s first production of the man widely considered to be Canada’s greatest writer for the stage. Soulpepper Founding Member Diana Leblanc, who has had a long and fruitful association with Tremblay as both an actor and director in French and English, takes the helm of this penetrating look at the touching story of one Québec family.

SEP – OCT

Pamela Sinha }{

Happy Place, the second play of Dora Awardwinning playwright Pamela Mala Sinha, explores and celebrates the courage, compassion and humour of seven women living amidst each other in the most extraordinary circumstances. Why are they there? How did they get there? And, are we so different from them?

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Subway Stations of t he Cross

Ins Choi }{

The History of the Village of the Small Huts, 1963-1970

Soulpepper Academy graduate and Resident Artist Ins Choi (Kim’s Convenience) channels a homeless man with a peculiar message from God. An unpredictable, mashed up meditation on the sacred and the everyday, Subway Stations of the Cross is told through the songs, stories, and poetry of a nameless vagabond.

The Gospel According t o Mark

Trudeau and the FLQ

MAR

Kenneth Welsh }{

The most seminal work of the English language is the sublime King James version of the Bible (1611). Here, with astonishing vitality, master actor Kenneth Welsh (Under Milk Wood, Leaving Home) gives a verbatim performance of the Gospel according to Mark.

MAY – JUN

videocabaret

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As the centenary of Canada’s Confederation approaches, Québec separatists crank up the violence. On a stage lit by terrorist bombings, Professor Trudeau pirouettes to power.

The acid-tripping rock-throwing ‘60s are conjured by a master storyteller with the magical stagecraft of the VideoCabaret ensemble and the Dora Award-winning performance of Mac Fyfe as Trudeau.

Trudeau and Levesque

The History of the Village of the Small Huts, 1971-1982

APR – JUN

videocabaret

Michael Hollingsworth }{

The visions of Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque are irreconcilable; the conflict is a comédie noire. Combatants, allies, and spies include: PQ Minister Claude Morin and his RCMP handlers; Police informer Poupette and her lovers in the FLQ; the Queen and a Gang of Premiers; plus Maggie Trudeau and The Rolling Stones.

SOULPEPPER CONCERT SERIES A Movable Musical Maritime Feast: P.E.I.’S Mike Ross and his musical guests celebrate the extraordinary musical life of Eastern Canada.

American Pie – A Songbook Investigation: An investigation of the meaning and musical references of Don McLean’s folk-rock anthem, from Buddy Holly to Dylan to Joplin to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

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Route 66 – The Heartland: A multi-artist journey through the heartland of America on the backs of Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac and the blues.

The Nina Project: Jackie Richardson, Shakura

S’Aida and Kellylee Evans celebrate the life, legend, reach and relevance of Nina Simone.

New Orleans – The Big Easy: A celebration of the city that gave birth to Louis Armstrong, Lillian Hellman, Jelly Roll Morton, Dr. John, and jazz itself.

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2015 performance calendar MONDAY

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8 15 maritime (2:30)

9 DEATH (7:30) DINING (8:00) G 16 NINA (7:30)

22 maritime (3:00)

23 DINING (8:00)

10 DEATH (7:30) ¸ DINING (8:00) G 17 DEATH (7:30) DINING (8:00) ¸ 24 DINING (8:00)

5 DEATH (7:30) < DINING (8:00) G 11 12 DEATH (1:30 G /7:30) DINING (8:00) < DINING (8:00) G 18 19 deATH (1:30 G / 7:30) DEATH (7:30) DINING (2:00 G /8:00) DINING (8:00) 25 26 DINING (2:00 G /8:00) DINING (8:00)

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10 SPOON (7:30) G DINING (8:00) 17 route (7:30)

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23 SPOON (7:30) subway (7:30)

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18 SUBWAY (2:00) SPOON (7:30) GOSPEL (7:30) 25 route (1:30 ) GOSPEL (2:00) SPOON (7:30) SUBWAY (7:30)

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13 human (1:30 G /7:30) bed (2:00/8:00) flq (8:00) G 20 LEV (1:30) G dybbuk (7:30) G eur (8:00) G flq (8:00)

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death – Accidental Death of an Anarchist DINING – The Dining Room SPOON – Spoon River BED – Bedroom Farce HUMAN – Of Human Bondage DYBBUK – The Dybbuk EUR – Eurydice Play’S – The Play’s the Thing

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HAPPY – Happy Place MARAT – Marat/Sade FOREVER – Yours Forever, Marie-Lou FLQ – Trudeau and the FLQ LEV – Trudeau and Levesque

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Maritime – M aritime Feast A.Pie – A merican Pie Route – Route 66 Nina – The Nina Project Easy – New Orleans - The Big Easy

SUBWAY – Subway Stations of the Cross GOSPEL – The Gospel According to Mark

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Soulpepper Summer Performance Sabbatical Many arts and cultural events during PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC, the arts and culture festival of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, will take place at the Young Centre from July 10 through August 15, 2015 Visit TORONTO2015.org for details.

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Our themed fall schedule, including holiday family programming, will be announced in the spring, subscribers will receive first notice.

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