NEWS ITEM: Full season at Passe Muraille 2010-11
22 Apr'10

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

When it comes to theatre, the folks at Theatre Passe Muraille have a reputation for playing well with others. That's a rep almost certain to grow with Wednesday's announcement of their new 2010-11 season — a season in which more than half the shows on offer will be produced in association with other companies.

The new season kicks off with a Backspace production of HARD TIMES, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' work, written and directed by Chris Earle and produced by Puppetmongers in association with TPM.

It is to be followed by the previously announced Mainstage production of THE MIDDLE PLACE, written by Andrew Kushnir, directed by Alan Dilworth and produced by TPM in collaboration with Canadian Stage.

Next up, playwright/performer Maja Ardal continues the story of Elsa, the precocious heroine of her hit show YOU FANCY YOURSELF, in a TPM Backspace production directed by Mary Francis Moore, titled THE CURE FOR EVERYTHING.

Meanwhile, TPM will team with Theatre Jones Roy to produce Anusree Roy's latest play, titled ROSHNI, directed by Thomas Morgan Jones and starring Roy and Byron Abalos, on the Mainstage.

A new year will see Haley McGee's OH MY IRMA take to the Backspace stage in a TPM production directed by Alisa Palmer, to be followed by HIGHWAY 63: THE FORT MAC SHOW, created by Director Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, Greg Gale, Jonathan Seinen, Gerogina Beaty and Layne Coleman, in yet another TPM production in the Backspace.

Mainstage productions of MONTPARNASSE,( written by Maev Beaty and Erin Shields, directed by Andrea Donaldson and produced by Groundwater Productions in association with TPM) and THE LAST 15 SECONDS (created by Trevor Copp, Anne-Marie Donovan, Nada Homsi, Gary Kirkham, Pam Patel, Alan K. Sapp and director Majdi Bou-Matar and produced by MT Space (Kitchener/Waterloo) in association with TPM) round out the season.

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