by Rachel Ganz (Playwriting, 2016)
Directed by Carly Chamberlain (Directing, 2016)
from April 26 to April 30, 2016
Tuesday April 26: 7:30 pm
Wednesday April 27: 6:30 pm
Thursday April 28: 9 pm
Friday April 29: 6:30 pm
Saturday April 30: 6 pm
Studio Hydro-Québec
1182, St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal
St. Laurent or Place d'Armes Metro
Ticket price: $10
Content Warning: violence, strong language, and graphic sexual content
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The New Words Festival is a yearly theatrical event showcasing new plays written, directed, designed, produced and acted by the NTS graduating class.
D.D. Donado Home For The Socially Upsetting has been disposing of thousands of women's souls for centuries and tonight one woman attempts to disenfranchise the entire institution.
The National Theatre School of Canada would like to thank The Banff Center Playwrights Colony for supporting the development of this play.
Rachel Ganz is currently completing her final year as a playwright at The National Theatre School of Canada. Works completed at the school include: The Dumb War, Plucked and The Agony of a Groaning Door. Selected Writing Credits: The Agony of a Groaning Door (The National Theatre School), The Dumb War (Newborn Theatre), Teach Me (Newborn Theatre), Plasterface (Newborn Theatre), Benji Boy (Inspirato), Rhyme Reason or Otherwise (Hart House Players), The Long Run (Sunnybrook/Saint Michael’s College).
Watch our interview with Rachel Ganz here.
Carly Chamberlain is a graduating Directing student at the National Theatre School of Canada. Credits at the school have included Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, I am the wind by Jon Fosse, The Agony of the Groaning Door by Rachel Ganz, and assistant directing for Alisa Palmer’s production of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill. Selected credits: Vinegar Tom (Playwright Project), Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Hart House Theatre) and Overruled/Romance (Neoteny Theatre). As an actor she appeared in more than 15 Shakespearean productions, including playing Isabella in Measure for Measure and Olivia in Twelfth Night with Shakespeare by the Sea in Halifax. Upcoming: New Words Festival (NTS); assistant directing for Alisa Palmer on Hamlet (NTS) and The Body Politic (Buddies in Bad Times).
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2016 Graduating students of the Set and Costume Design and Production programs
Adriana Bogaard
Set designer
Oleksandra Lykova
Patrick Peachey Higdon
Set Assistants
Loïc Lacroix Hoy
Set design coach
Gillian Nasser
Costume designer
Fruszina Lanji
Costume design coach
Lucia Corak
Lighting Designer
Thomas Geddes
Sound Designer
Jessie Paynter
Video designer
David Costello
Production Manager
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