Graduating class performances

Every second year, the National Theatre School’s graduating Directing students present their final personal projects, in which they collaborate with professional actors and designers, as well as with the School’s Production and Set and Costume Design students. These personal projects are a unique occasion for the graduating directors to embrace works, techniques and forms that they find equally compelling and challenging.

ABOUT THE PLAY

Gruesome Playground Injuries follows two friends who reconnect at different moments of their lives, each time attempting to nurse their physical wounds – whether accidental, self-inflicted or the result of fights—and struggling to find their respective truth through the chaos of psychological pain. “Doug and Kayleen–respectively played by Mike Hugues and Bahia Watson – find support in each other, at various stages of their lives and through traumatic experiences, but what’s even most interesting, and what I want to share with the audience, is how acknowledging their own experiences eventually allows them to simply be”, says Tanya Rintoul.