2016/17 Season Subscriptions

Tarragon’s 2016-17 season opens in the Mainspace with The Watershed, the critically acclaimed play by Montreal documentary theatre artist Annabel Soutar, produced by Crow’s Theatre and Porte Parole who created this extraordinary work that investigates the forces that are shaping the future of our natural resources. It earned raves in its premiere last summer as part of the PANAMANIA Festival, and will tour to Montreal and elsewhere following its run at Tarragon. Chris Abraham, Artistic Director of Crow’s, again directs.

Following in the Mainspace is the penetrating dramatic comedy that garnered raves on Broadway: The Realistic Joneses about two suburban couples who seem to have even more in common than their identical homes and shared last names. It is written by Brooklyn-based Will Eno, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Thom Pain (based on nothing) which Tarragon produced in 2007. After a lauded run on Broadway in 2014 that earned three Drama League nominations and two Drama Desk awards, it now makes its Canadian premiere. Richard Rose, Tarragon’s Artistic Director, directs.

The first Extraspace production of the season is the Toronto (and Ontario) premiere of The Circle, a hard-hitting, unsettling play about youth and belonging set in a high-school garage party by one of Canada’s most exciting new young voices, Calgary’s 27-year-old Geoffrey Simon Brown in his Tarragon and Toronto debut. Peter Pasyk, Tarragon’s Urjo Kareda Resident Artist for 2013-14, directs.

The new year brings another Toronto (and Ontario) premiere: Sequence, a science thriller about luck, faith and math that won the 2013 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play by Calgary ophthalmologist, playwright, screenwriter and songwriter Arun Lakra, also in his Tarragon/Toronto debut. Tarragon’s Associate Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson helms this work in the Mainspace.

Also in January, Toronto audiences have another chance to catch the smash hit remounted from Tarragon’s 2014-15 season: Infinity, a gripping story about love and time written by in-demand Playwright-in-Residence Hannah Moscovitch that won the 2015 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play. A co-production with Volcano Theatre, Ross Manson, Artistic Director of Volcano, directs this buzz-worthy collaboration in the Extraspace.

Then follow two world premieres by Tarragon Playwrights-in-Residence: Peace River Country, an intense drama inspired by the real-life story of alleged eco-terrorist – and Reverend – Weibo Ludwig by Maria Milisavljevic, staged by Richard Rose (who steered Milisavljevic’s last work for Tarragon, the memorable Abyss in the 2014-15 season) in the Extraspace; and The Millennial Malcontent by Governor General’s Award winner Erin Shields, a meditation on the millennial generation loosely adapted from The Provoked Wife by Sir John Vanbrugh, directed by the former Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre English theatre, Peter Hinton in the Mainspace.

The season wraps up with the English-language, Toronto debut in the Mainspace of the internationally acclaimed “play with songs,” Midsummer (a play with songs) by Scottish award-winning playwright David Greig in collaboration with Edinburgh indie rocker Gordon McIntyre, an hilarious tale of two 30-somethings turning a one-night-stand into a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, midnight trysts and self-loathing hangovers.

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