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Thursday, January 21, 2010

David Sherman’s “The Daily Miracle”

While a winter storm threatens to shut down the city and the corporate big wigs meet behind closed doors across the hall to decide the fate of the newspaper, four copy editors hammer out tomorrow’s edition. It's just another night on the news desk, where the battle-scarred and overworked wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out. Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all … a miracle that happens every day.

Performance Information
Dates & Times Jan. 26 – Feb. 14
Previews Jan. 26 & 27
Opening Night Jan. 28
Tues. through Sat. 20:00
Sunday Matinée 14:00 (Jan.31 PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN)
Monday DARK

Tickets
General Admission $20
Seniors & Students $15
Groups (6 or more) $10

Venue
Bain St-Michel
5300, St-Dominique

Box Office
(514) 987 – 1774
box-office@infinitheatre.com
www.infinitheatre.com

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

David Sherman’s “The Daily Miracle” is a bittersweet ode to a rapidly fading industry

MONTREAL, January 2010 - Ever wonder what it’s like to work for a major daily newspaper?  Former Gazette copy editor, David Sherman, offers a keyhole view of the newspaper industry with his play The Daily Miracle, directed by Guy Sprung and playing at the Bain St-Michel from January 26 to February 14, 2010.  

“What has more dramatic possibilities than a room full of people under constant stress?” asks Sherman and the elements he combines in his petri dish create a virtual powder keg.  While a winter storm threatens to shut down the city and the corporate big wigs meet behind closed doors across the hall to decide the fate of the newspaper, four copy editors hammer out tomorrow’s edition.  It's just another night on the news desk, where the battle-scarred and overworked wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out.  Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all … a miracle that happens every day.
The genesis of The Daily Miracle was in 2004 while Sherman was still copy editor at the Gazette as well as playwright-in-residence at Centaur Theatre.  The play sat on a shelf until one day when Sherman was screening films for the Gemini awards and met fellow juror, Guy Sprung.  When Infinithéâtre initiated the Write-On-Q playwrighting competition last year, Sherman submitted his play and Infinithéâtre’s independent jury chose it as one of the top three.  Its topical resonance was irresistible to Sprung, who couldn’t wait to announce its inclusion in the following season’s line-up.
The Daily Miracle is Sherman’s love song to the newspaper industry.  "The men and women I worked with on the desk at The Gazette were almost all unsung heroes," Sherman says. "They worked their hearts out under what has become impossible conditions for what I believed was a noble cause. Getting the paper out, every night, no matter what. The reporters got the credit. The deskers went bald and crazy."

Sherman’s fascination with the industry was triggered at the tender age of 6 when his schoolteacher recommended the class read the newspaper to augment their reading skills.  Magically, The Montreal Star arrived at his doorstep every afternoon.  He would dash home from school to be the first to open those ungainly pages in search of new words and mythic tales of greed, corruption, courage and victory.  By the time he was 17 he was a copy boy at that very same paper.  A few years after graduating from Dawson College, Sherman worked at The Star as circulation manager but eventually quit to write freelance for both The Star and The Gazette and then took a job at the Sherbrooke Record.  Over the years Sherman has been a music critic, feature writer, reporter and finally a copy editor working the desk at The Gazette.
As an added bonus for hard-core news junkies, Infinithéâtre is hosting a special event on Wednesday February 3.  The Bain will open its doors at 6:30 PM for an early showing of The Daily Miracle at 7 PM.  Directly following the performance, there will be a panel discussion with four of Montreal’s senior journalists: Alan Allnutt, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Gazette; Henry Aubin, author, historian, and columnist at The Gazette; Josée Boileau, editor-in-chief at Le Devoir and Françoise Guénette, free-lance journalist and reporter for Radio-Canada.  It’s anticipated that the panel and audience will be working up quite a thirst so cocktails will be served at a post-discussion reception.  To buy a ticket or for more information, call (514) 987 – 1774 or e-mail development@infinitheatre.com.

Arthur Holden, celebrated Montréal actor (most recently seen on History Television in September as General James Wolfe in Galafilm’s Battlefield Quebec), and writer (his play, Father Land, won the Write-On-Q competition last year and will round up Infinithéâtre’s season with a March production) is Marty, newly back on the job after a nervous breakdown and clearly headed down that road again.  Ellen David, well known to Canadian audiences (Mambo Italiano, The Carpenter and In Piazza San Domenico) and who currently stars in the new CBC comedy series 18 to Life, plays Elizabeth, a dedicated professional trying to balance motherhood and an all-consuming career in a predominately male environment.  Howard Rosenstein makes an about-turn from paedophilic clown in Infinithéâtre’s Rabbit Rabbit last fall to Benjamin, the womanizing night editor determined to get the paper out with a minimum of histrionics so he can hightail it to the nearest bar to drown his troubles.  New kid on the block with dreams of television news anchor fame is Carrie, played by Sheena Gazé-Deslandes in her theatrical debut and veteran Québec actor Jean-Guy Bouchard is Roland, resident philosopher and fallen demi-God reduced to janitor.


Hot commodity, James Lavoie, designs the set and costumes and Eric Mongerson returns to Infinite as lighting designer with assistance from Mylène Choquette.  Making his Infinithéâtre debut as sound designer is Julien St. Pierre and Kathryn Cleveland is two for two this season as stage manager with Michael Panich as her apprentice.


Performance Information

      Dates & Times    Jan. 26 – Feb. 14

      Previews     Jan. 26 & 27
      Opening     Jan. 28
      Tues. through Sat.    20:00
      Sunday Matinée    14:00
      Monday     DARK

      Tickets

      General Admission         $20
      Seniors & Students    $15
      Groups (6 or more)    $10

      Venue

      Bain St-Michel
      5300, St-Dominique

      Box Office

      (514) 987 – 1774

      Web Site

www.infinitheatre.com

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

The Daily Miracle

written by David Sherman
directed by Guy Sprung
January 26 - Feb. 14
Previews Jan. 26 & 27
Opening Night Thursday Jan. 28
Bain St-Michel
5300, rue St-Dominique
Box Office
(514) 987 - 1774

SYNOPSIS: Marty's back to work after suffering a nervous breakdown; Elizabeth's daughter is sick at home with a babysitter; Carrie uses all her charms to impress as she dreams of a job in television while Benjamin is just trying to get the paper out, all overseen by the ghosts of an industry that used to be. It's another night on the news desk, where a few battle-scarred, overworked copy editors wrestle with fractured syntax and crushed ideals to get the next edition out in the shadow of a marathon corporate management meeting. Tempers frayed from layoffs, cutbacks and corroded ambitions; it's a miracle they can get the paper out at all. A miracle that happens every day.

BIO: David Sherman is a journalist, screenwriter and playwright and former playwright in residence at the Centaur Theatre. He has worked at The Montreal Star and The Gazette as a copy boy, music critic, feature writer, reporter and lastly, as a copy editor. He began writing The Daily Miracle a few years ago while he was working as an editor on the news desk at The Gazette. The play, The Daily Miracle, is a work of fiction, as are the characters, but the true strains and stress of working the desk in today's deteriorating newspaper industry are stranger than fiction.

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“The Pipeline” Reading Series

Dec. 11 – 13, 2009

Bain St-Michel

5300, rue St-Dominique

FREE to public

(Suggested donation $5)

Friday December 11th – 7 PM

KENNEDY: THE MUSICAL

By Arthur Holden


Saturday December 12th – 7 PM

LIFE HERE AFTER

(Pam Dunn Write-On-Q Playwrighting contest winner)

By Alexandria Haber

Sunday December 13th – 2 PM (matinée)

The Return of Corporal Mazenet

By Nick Carpenter

For more information log on to http://www.infinihteatre.com or call (514) 987 – 1774.

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

2009 Write-on-Q Winner and the Triple-Header Line-up for The Pipeline Reading Series

Montréal, November 2009The Pipeline, Infinithéâtre’s yearly series of free public readings, returns with another jam-packed weekend of dramaturgy December 11th through 13th at the Bain St-Michel (5300, rue St-Dominique), featuring three new Québec plays, one of which is the winner of the second annual Pam Dunn Write-On-Q playwriting contest.

In its ongoing mandate to discover and develop new Québec works to bring to the Montréal stage, Infinithéâtre inaugurated the Write-On-Q contest in 2008. This contest provides aspiring Québec playwrights as well as established Québecois writers a chance to receive a kick-start with public feedback for a new work and comes with a purse of $1,000. Just as the 2007 productions of The Elephant Song by Nicholas Billon and Jason Maghanoy’s Gas were first given public readings through The Pipeline, so some of this year's works will very likely be awarded full productions in future Infinithéâtre seasons and/or elsewhere.

As a result of the first Write-On-Q contest last fall, The Pipeline attendance quadrupled and the top three scripts went on to become Infinithéâtre’s 2009 – 10 season. This year’s contest attracted an even bigger mountain of scripts for jury members Marianne Ackerman (journalist, playwright, co-founder of Theatre 1774 and current publisher of the online arts magazine Rover Arts), Carolyn Guillet (playwright, actor and Associate Artist at Infinithéâtre), and Kent Stetson (Order of Canada recipient and Governor General award-winning playwright), to consider. Arthur Holden, winner of last year’s contest, opens the series Friday the 11th of December with his zany KENNEDY: THE MUSICAL. Saturday the 12th showcases the winner of this year’s Pam Dunn award, Life Here After, picked from a short list of six and written by Montréal playwright and actor, Alexandria Haber. Nick Carpenter completes the trio on Sunday December 13th with a matinee reading of THE RETURN OF CORPORAL MAZENET. (Synopses and author biographies follow.)

Talkback discussions take place following each reading, allowing the audience to address questions or issues that the text generates in an open forum with the playwright and actors. With THE PIPELINE playing a major role in future programming, the series gives the public a unique opportunity to influence Infinithéâtre’s upcoming seasons as well as Montréal’s cultural landscape.

Prospective scripts for the 2010 Write-On-Q can be submitted to the Infinithéâtre offices between April and August 2010 at 5413, boul. St-Laurent, Suite 302, Montreal, (Québec) H2T 1S5.

For more information log on to http://www.infinihteatre.com or call (514) 987 – 1774.

Friday December 11th – 7 PM

KENNEDY: THE MUSICAL

by Arthur Holden


SYNOPSIS: Kennedy: the Musical is about the 35th American president, tracing John F. Kennedy’s presidency through the historical events that remade the United States in the early 1960’s. An American story that touches universal themes in its portrayal of an impulsive man struggling to be wise; a womanizer learning to be a good husband, even as fate awaits him in the gun sights of a crazed 23-year-old. With the White House once again occupied by a young, eloquent man, Kennedy: the Musical offers us sights and sounds that resonate strongly in today’s world.

BIO: Arthur Holden is an actor and writer. Notable screen credits include Battlefield Quebec, Barney's Version and the cartoon series Arthur. His most recent stage credit was the role of James in Four Minutes If You Bleed at the 2009 ZooFest; and his own play Father Land, winner of the 2008 Pam Dunn Write-On-W contest will be the final production of Infinitheatre's 2009-2010 season. Arthur lives in Montreal with his wife, novelist Claire Holden Rothman, and their two sons.

Saturday December 12th – 7 PM

LIFE HERE AFTER

(Pam Dunn Write-On-Q winner)

by Alexandria Haber

SYNOPSIS: When 16-year-old Carmen sets out to uncover the truth about her family’s dark past and the events surrounding her sister’s murder, she unravels much more than she had bargained for. Life Here After is a play about addiction, redemption, and playing the hand that life deals you.

BIO: Alexandria Haber is a playwright and actor. Her plays include: Four Minutes If You Bleed (ZooFest 2009), Housekeeping & Homewrecking (Theatre St. Catherine), Ordinary Times (Centaur Theatre, Fem Fest, Winnipeg) and Birthmarks (Playwrights Canada Press, 2000, produced by Theatre 1774 in the November to Remember Festival 1997, Montreal Fringe 1995). She has written several radio plays which were broadcast on CBC Radio, including The Very Little Girl, winner of the CBC Radio New Voices Competition, which aired on Outfront and Monday Night Playhouse and Washing Day, winner of the CBC Radio Sound FX contest and was broadcast on CBC Radio in March 1998. Her short story, Loved, was the winner of the QWF/CBC short story contest and was published in Short Stuff: New English Stories (Montreal, QC 2005, Vehicule Press, edited by Claude Lalumiere).

Sunday December 12th – 2 PM

The Return of Corporal Mazenet

by Nick Carpenter

SYNOPSIS: The Soldier, the Songwriter, the Fiancé and her Daughter. Only one of them actually remembers Corporal Leonore Mazenet. But the course of each of their lives is fundamentally altered by her death in Afghanistan. The Major, the Children, the Singers and the Ghost. Only one of them actually loved Corporal Leonore Mazenet. But all are drawn into a story that will not rest until a full turn of the wheel has been made and we find ourselves at the

frontier of another un-winnable war.

BIO: Since graduating from the National Theatre School Playwriting Progam, Nick has split his creative life between writing words (for stage and radio) and music. His work has been heard and seen across Canada and on stages in the US and Germany. His play Stained Glass won the 2008 Canadian Peace Play Competition. Some recent music (composition and/or direction): The Children's Republic (GCTC), Liliom (National Theatre School), The Book of Judith (Theatre Centre, Toronto), Peer Gynt and Medea (Third Wall, Ottawa), The Tempest and Les Fourberies de Scapin (Repercussion Theatre), Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill (Concordia University), Radio Gals (Theatre Lac Brome), Johnny Canuck and the Last Burlesque (Mainline Theatre), Henry IV Part One (Concordia University) and In Flagrante (National Theatre School).

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Rabbit Rabbit

Rabbit Rabbit
Écrit par
Amy Lee Lavoie

Dmise en scène de
Guy Sprung

Avec
Ashley Dunn
Howard Rosenstein

Larry, un clown pédophile, a rendez-vous avec Britney, une prostituée adolescente employée par un service d'escorte fétichiste. Britney n'a pas beaucoup de succès avec ses clients dernièrement et son pimp menace de lui montrer la porte. Larry a réquisitionné la fille qu'il fréquente d'habitude, une fille de 12 ans appelée Sabrina, mais elle n'était pas disponible. Il a vraiment besoin de son fix habituel car il a le béguin pour une jeune fille qu'il doit voir la semaine prochaine, à son anniversaire, lors d'un prochain job. Il a peur de ce qu'il fera s'il ne soulage pas ses besoins. Dans la chambre d'hôtel, c'est le jour J. Malgré des ébats sexuels embarrassants et traumatisants, malgré la nervosité de Britney et la déception de Larry, les deux personnages se créent un lien unique. Petit à petit, la chambre d'hôtel se transforme en confessionnal pour secrets sinistres et rêves d'avenir.

Heures et Dates Du 10 au 29 novembre
Prévues 10 et 11 novembre
Première 12 novembre
Du mardi au samedi 20h00
Matinée dimanche 14h00
Lundi FERMÉ

Billets
Admission générale : 20 $
Âge d'or/Étudiants : 15 $
Groupes (6+) : 10 $ (de même que pour les prévues)

Lieu
Bain St-Michel
5300, rue St-Dominique

Billetterie
(514) 987 – 1774
box-office@infinitheatre.com

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Rabbit Rabbit
Written by
Amy Lee Lavoie

Directed by
Guy Sprung

Starring
Ashley Dunn
Howard Rosenstein

Larry is a paedophilic birthday clown who sees a twelve-year-old prostitute regularly to keep his proclivities under control. She's not available this week so he's stuck with Britney, a voluptuous teenage 'pro', head over heals in love with her pimp, Ace, who's threatened to boot her out if she doesn't start bringing in some serious cash. Larry has his sights set on a little girl coming to his next clown gig, so the pressure's on; he knows what he'll do if he doesn't get relief. He needs someone who 'knows the routine'. Britney has to make Larry a happy camper so she and Ace can live happily ever after. The dingy hotel room becomes a confessional where life secrets are shared and the spectre of loneliness is denied, even if only for a little while.



Dates & Times Nov. 10 - 29
Previews Nov. 10 & 11
Opening Nov. 12
Tues. through Sat. 20:00
Sunday Matinée 14:00
Monday DARK

Tickets
General Admission $20
Seniors & Students $15
Groups (6 or more) $10

Venue
Bain St-Michel
5300, St-Dominique

Box Office
(514) 987 – 1774
box-office@infinitheatre.com

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Rabbit Rabbit and Suburban Motel in Montreal

November 10 - 29
Infinithéâtre
presents
RABBIT RABBIT
By Amy Lee Lavoie
Directed by Guy Sprung
Starring Ashley Dunn & Howard Rosenstein

Larry, a paedophilic birthday clown, is on

a "date" with Britney, a sixteen-year-old prostitute working for a fetish escort service. If Britney gets another bad score from a client - she's had a string of bad-luck lately - her pimp will put her back out on the street. Larry asked for his usual girl, twelve-year-old Sabrina, who wasn't available. He really wanted his regular fix, as he has his sights set on a young girl who he will be seeing next week at a birthday party, his next clown job. He knows what he will do if he doesn't get some relief. It is D-Day in the hotel room. Through embarrassing, traumatic attempts at having sex, and in spite of Britney's nerves and Larry's broken routine, the two characters form a unique bond. The hotel room becomes a confessional for dark secrets and future dreams.

Bain St-Michel

5300 St-Dominique
Tues. thru Sat. - 8 PM
Sun. matinée - 2 PM
Adult.: $20 - Students & Seniors: $15 - Groups (6+): $10 MATURE SUBJECT MATTER
(514) 987 - 1774
www.infinitheatre.com

"Rabbit author"(Amy Lee Lavoie) at

tached - courtesy of Infinithéâtre


November 10 - 29

Tableau D'Hôte Theatre
presents
SUBURBAN MOTEL
By George F. Walker

Set in the same seedy motel room in no-place Canada, Governor General Award winning playwright George F. Walker brings us this hilarious and tragic series of six plays that can exist on their own but also share one interconnecting theme. The first time all six plays have been produced consecutively, Tableau D'Hôte Theatre invites you to celebrate some of Canada's most exciting talent, featuring over thirty local actors, directors, and designers in this Montréal first.

Mainline Theatre
3997, boul. St-Laurent
Tues. thru Sat. - 8 PM
Sun. matinée - 2 PM
Adult.: $20 - Students & Seniors: $15 - Special Group Rates available MATURE SUBJECT MATTER
514-849-FEST (3378)
www.tableaudhotetheatre.ca/

"Motel Collage" photo attached by Martin Reisch

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Free public reading May 8

Free Public Reading of

Speak Oppenheimer or Elephants

by Jaspreet Singh


Infinithéâtre is pleased to present a free public reading of award-winning Montréal writer Jaspreet Singh's play, Speak Oppenheimer or Elephants on Friday, May 8th 2009 at 7:30 PM at the NDG Maison de la culture.


The drama focuses on the culturally schizophrenic post-9/11 existence of Irfan Hussein, a Kashmiri-American nuclear physicist traveling back to his birthplace to bury his mother. The play explores themes of nuclear proliferation, terrorism, racism and the complicated identities that characterize our globalized existence.


Montreal writer Jaspreet Singh was born in India and moved to Canada in 1990. A former research scientist, Singh holds a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. Singh has won critical acclaim for his short stories, including his collection entitled, 17 Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir. His First novel, Chef, published last year, was nominated for four major national and international literary awards.


An open discussion of the play will follow the reading with the author present. The reading of Speak Oppenheimer or Elephants, will be held at:


Friday,May 8, 2009

7:30pm.

Maison de la culture in NDG

3755 rue Botrel


Call to reserve:

(514) 872 - 2157

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Infinithéâtre evenement theatrale

La première mondiale de BLESSED ARE THEY examine une grande question : « Où est Dieu ? »

MONTRÉAL, février 2009 - Infinithéâtre termine sa saison 2008-09, « Love, Hope, Faith », avec la première mondiale de l'œuvre de Bruce M. Smith, BLESSED ARE THEY, à l'Église unie de St-James du 17 février au 8 mars 2009. (Les prévues auront lieu les 17 et 18 février 2009.)

Une confrontation entre deux personnages : un ministre dont la foi est incertaine, un nouveau paroissien retrouvé dans la grâce de Dieu. Situé dans une petite communauté québécoise, les deux personnages, l'un est basé sur l'apôtre Paul, l'autre sur l'apôtre Pierre, tente de définir la réelle nature de la foi.

Une mise en scène de Guy Sprung, la pièce met en vedette Andreas Apergis, Emily Bamforth, Eric Davis, Joanna Noyes, Juno London, Igor Ovadis et Vlasta Vrana. La scénographie et les costumes sont d'Elli Bunton, éclairages de Sarah Yaffe et la régie par Kathryn Cleveland, assistée de Danielle-Ariel Caddell-Malenfant et Kyla Miller.


Dates et heures : Du 17 février au 8 mars

Du mardi au samedi 20 h

Matinées les dimanches 14 h

Billets :

Admission générale 20,00 $

Étudiants, Aînés 15,00 $

Tarif de groupe (16ou plus) 10,00 $

Lieu :

St. James United Church

463, rue Ste-Catherine ouest

Billetterie :

514-987 – 1774 ext. 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Sites Web :

www.infinitheatre.com

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Infinithéâtre Calendar event

World Première of BLESSED ARE THEY Explores the Question "Where Is God?"

MONTRÉAL, February 2009 - Infinithéâtre tops off their season of "love, hope and faith" with Bruce M. Smith's world première, BLESSED ARE THEY, at the St. James United Church from February 19th to March 8th, (with previews on February 17th and 18th).

A minister, his beliefs riddled with doubt and uncertainty, is confronted by a charismatic new member of the congregation whose life has been saved by his renewed faith in Christ. Set in a small rural community in contemporary Québec, the two figures, one based upon Apostle Paul, the other on Apostle Peter, struggle to define true faith.

Directed by Guy Sprung, the play stars Andreas Apergis, Emily Bamforth, Eric Davis, Joanna Noyes, Juno London, Igor Ovadis and Vlasta Vrana with set and costume design by Elli Bunton, lighting by Sarah Yaffe and stage management by Kathryn Cleveland, assisted by Danielle-Ariel Caddell-Malenfant and Kyla Miller.


DATES & TIMES: FEB. 17 – MAR. 8

Tues. through Sat. 8:00 PM

Sunday Matinées 2:00 PM

VENUE:

St. James United Church

463 St. Catherine Street West

TICKETS:

General Admission $20.00

Students and Seniors $15.00

Group Rates (6+) $10.00

BOX OFFICE:

514-987 – 1774 ext. 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Web Site:

www.infinitheatre.com

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Infinithéâtre production Feb. 2009

World Première of BLESSED ARE THEY Explores the Question "Where Is God?"

MONTRÉAL, January 2009 - Infinithéâtre tops off their season of "love, hope and faith" with Bruce M. Smith's world première, BLESSED ARE THEY, a challenging look at the role of religion in today's fast-paced society. The company ventures out of the Plateau to present the play in the site-specific St. James United Church from February 19th to March 8th, (with previews on February 17th and 18th).


A minister, his beliefs riddled with doubt and uncertainty, is confronted by a charismatic new member of the congregation whose life has been saved by his renewed faith in Christ. Set in a small rural community in contemporary Québec, the two figures, one based upon Apostle Paul, the other on Apostle Peter, struggle to define true faith.


Impressed with Smith's writing for television, (his script for Prairie Giant: the Tommy Douglas Story was nominated for a Gemini award) Artistic Director, Guy Sprung, asked him to write a play for Infinite. Self-described as a deist rather than religious, Smith has studied the Bible with Korean missionaries, the Book of Mormon with a Mormon elder and engaged in dialogues with Jehovah's Witnesses. What he has come to realize is that "no two people experience faith in the same way yet it has a role in everybody's life." Thus the play's universal theme was born. Smith uses a weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a United Church basement as the rich backdrop to develop characters, with various backgrounds and needs, in discussion about faith in their daily lives.

The play went through two public readings in Infinithéâtre's The Pipeline series, before making it into the 2008-09 season, a process that many of Infinite's productions undergo as part of their mandate to discover and develop new Québec works. BLESSED ARE THEY passes no judgments but instead gives audiences the opportunity to eavesdrop on a dialogue within a particular denomination with the goal of generating further debate. The play invites people to step out of their own sectarian experience and participate in an exploration of faith.

Directed by Guy Sprung, the play stars Andreas Apergis, Emily Bamforth, Eric Davis, Joanna Noyes, Juno Mills-Cockell, Igor Ovadis and Vlasta Vrana with set and costume design by Elli Bunton, lighting by Sarah Yaffe and stage management by Kathryn Cleveland, assisted by Danielle-Ariel Caddell-Malenfant.



Dates & Times Feb. 17 – Mar. 5

Previews Feb. 17 & 18 8:00 PM

Opening Feb. 19 8:00 PM

Tues. through Sat. 8:00 PM

Sunday Matinees 2:00 PM

Mondays DARK

Closing Mar. 5 8:00 PM

Tickets:

General Admission $20.00

Students and Seniors $15.00

Group Rates (6+) $10.00

Venue:

St. James United Church

463 St. Catherine Street West

Box Office:

514-987 – 1774 ext. 104

box-office@infinitheatre.com

Web Site:

www.infinitheatre.com


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