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Production Catalogue
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Dario Fo
Translated by Jon Laskin and Michael Aquilante
On Stage Now!
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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By William Congreve
February 4-14, 2015
Love for Love (1695) is a comical farce relishing in the verbal polish and theatrical wit that audiences’ so admire and love in Congreve. Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself in financial straits; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to submit to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this suggestion immediately increases the chances of his younger brother Ben on the marriage mart, Valentine's own chances with his beloved Angelica proportionally decreases. To avoid having to sign the renunciation Valentine pretends to be mad. Angelica, seeing through him, provokes him back into sanity by pretending to agree to marry his father. Valentine recovers, the lovers reunite, and Ben, too, finds the girl of his heart. In its day Love for Love was considered more successful than Congreve’s other restoration masterpiece, The Way of the World. Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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A.R. Gurney
On Stage February 5
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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On Stage February 15
P.E.I.'S Mike Ross and his musical guests celebrate the extraordinary musical life of Eastern Canada.
Tickets: $60 - $22 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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On Stage February 16
BAND - TD Presents Then and Now Black History Series
Jackie Richardson, Shakura S’Aida and Kellylee Evans celebrate the life, legend, reach and relevance of Nina Simone.
Tickets: $60 - $22 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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On Stage February 27
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.
Tickets: $60 - $22 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Adapted by Mike Ross & Albert Schultz
Composed by Mike Ross
Based on Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
On stage March 7
Edgar Lee Masters' seminal poems of the dead are brought to vibrant life in this musical adaptation. Immerse yourself in the world of Spoon River, a slice of rural America, as residents of the town narrate their own epitaphs, telling of their lives, loves, losses, and truths.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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On Stage March 17
A multi-artist journey through the heartland of America on the backs of Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac and the blues.
Tickets: $60 - $22 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Ins Choi
On Stage March 18
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.
Tickets: $30 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Kenneth Welsh
On Stage March 18
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.
Tickets: $30 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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By Henrik Ibsen
Translated by Kenneth McLeish
April 7-18, 2015
Peer Gynt is the son of the once rich and highly regarded Jon Gynt, who has died and left Peer and his mother living in poverty. Peer wants to restore what his father has wrecked, but gets lost in boasting and daydreams. The story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance, Ibsen takes his protagonist on a journey form fantasizing boyhood to penitent old age. The play’s preoccupation with the tyranny of self and the transience of tycoonery resonate, soundly, with a 21st century audience. Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in deliberate disregard of the limitations that conventional stagecraft of the 19th century imposed on drama. Its forty scenes move unreservedly through time and space and between consciousness and the unconscious, lending folkloric fantasy and unsentimental realism. Epic in scope, Peer Gynt is a feast for the eyes and soul. Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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On Stage April 10
A celebration of the city that gave birth to Louis Armstrong, Lillian Hellman, Jelly Roll Morton, Dr. John, and jazz itself.
Tickets: $60 - $22 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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The History of the Village of the Small Huts, 1971-1982
VideoCabaret
Michael Hollingsworth
On Stage April 25
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.
Tickets: $56 - $26 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Alan Ayckbourn
On Stage May 1
Four couples, three bedrooms, and one farce by British comic master Alan Ayckbourn, playwright of last year’s Soulpepper hit The Norman Conquests.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Vern Thiessen
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham
On stage May 2
A broken man. A damaged woman. An impossible love. Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, Of Human Bondage is an epic tale of loss, lust, obsession, and the pursuit of beauty in a world dominated by war, greed, and poverty. Adapted for the stage for the very first time by Governor General's Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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The History of the Village of the Small Huts, 1963-1970
VideoCabaret
Michael Hollingsworth
On Stage May 12
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.
Tickets: $56 - $26 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Anton Piatigorsky
Based on the play by S. Ansky
On Stage May 14
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Sarah Ruhl
On Stage May 19
Ms. Ruhl's magical play about the joys and trials of living and dying invites the happiest kind of commemoration. – THE NEW YORK TIMES
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Ferenc Molnár
Adapted by P.G. Wodehouse
On Stage August 2
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Pamela Mala Sinha
On Stage September 4
Happy Place, the second play of Dora Award winning 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?
Warning: Mature Language
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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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
Peter Weiss
Translated by Geoffrey Skelton
Verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell
On Stage September 11
Albert Schultz directs a huge Soulpepper ensemble in this rich, highly theatrical, and rarely performed 20th-century masterpiece.
Warning: Mature Content
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
On Stage September 14
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.
Tickets: $89 - $29.50 (price includes all fees and taxes)
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