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Baker’s hyper-realism bleeds into the eerily super-natural in this quiet tale, where… She has a speech about actually going insane for a spell in her 40s and thinking she was possessed by her ex-husband after leaving him that will bring laughs and tears in equal measure.McLellan and Beatty both deserve to be considered at award time for their performances – and Yu is a real discovery who will hopefully become a mainstay in Toronto theatre. Elias and Jenny's struggle is truly confessing and truly forgiving – while Baker's working principle as a playwright could be described as essentially Christian, proof that the divine would show up in the form of a human being, because it does every day.While her work is secular, spending time with Baker's creations, with Mertis, Genevieve, Jenny and I suppose even Elias, reminded me of the words of Saint Josemaria: "There is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations and it is up to each of you to discover it. Rehearsals will be part-time, beginning Feb 24th.
Beatty, an underused veteran actress, is extraordinarily ordinary in the role –hilarious and heartbreaking in her dieting regime, filled with love and a bit lost.
Toronto - Annie Baker is the unofficial poet laureate of the millennial generation.
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Annie Baker's plays (The Flick, The Aliens, John, Circle Mirror Transformation, etc) will be familiar to Toronto audiences, and we are very excited to be the first Canadian company to present this work. permissions/licensing, please go to:Written by Annie Baker.
Mertis finds the thrill in serving eggs to her guests in “Paris” (the name of the B&B’s dining area), but her soft demeanour turns angelic (either benevolent or sinister, depending on your viewpoint) when the conversation comes to higher powers.
Goad counters this move by letting Mertis open and close each act by literally opening and closing a red curtain that surrounds Shannon Lea Doyle’s meticulously decorated set (the hours that went into sourcing so much kitsch boggle the mind). But that’s what you get in the Company Theatre’s production of her newest work, 2015’s In Stratford Festival actor Jonathan Goad’s directorial debut, McLellan gets the most overtly complex character in Genevieve, but plays her with arresting empathy, charm and humour. The impression is that these two women, each other’s only reliable companions and mutual sufferers of lost loves, have reached a new level of awareness of the world, or beyond. 3.5 stars. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.
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in the empty rooms upstairs, a kind of a blind prophet whose wisdom could easily be mistaken for madness. They’re in no hurry, sometimes they meander; they relish pauses and minutiae, and deal in a thematic depth that can come only from the most mundane events.
John Written by Annie Baker Genre Play Directed by Jonathan Goad ... John is the play with which The Company Theatre is finally introducing Baker to Toronto …
In that moment, Baker boldly embraces the audience, whereas most of the play tries to make us disappear. Written by Annie Baker.
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