Theatre Junction (Calgary) in association with Crow's Theatre presents

The Country

by Martin Crimp
starring Mark Lawes, Liisa Repo-Martell, Raphaele Thiriet

November 17 - 24, 2009

Artistic Director Chris Abraham will travel to Calgary to direct the North American Premiere of Martin Crimp’s highly lauded psychological thriller The Country for Theatre Junction in Association with Crow’s Theatre.

U.K. firebrand Martin Crimp's The Country is a chilling, suggestive chamber piece, unravelling a web of sexual politics, power and class to uncover the darker side of the myth of “idyllic” rural life. The piece is a stunning example of Crimp’s “emotional intensity and unblinking account of the dark void beneath the veneer of the humdrum.” These gifts and more have made him one of Europe’s most admired and produced contemporary dramatists.

Visit theatrejunction.com for more information. Box Office: 403-205-2922

Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary) presents the Crow's Theatre production of

I, Claudia

by Kristen Thomson
starring Liisa Repo-Martell

October 19 - November 8, 2009

Continuing our recent critically-acclaimed Canadian tour and held-over engagement at Toronto's Young Centre for the Performing Arts, I, Claudia will continue to tour in 2009. Gemini Award-winning actress Liisa Repo-Martell will reprise her Sterling Award-winning performance of Kristen Thomson’s one-woman show at Calgary’s Alberta Theatre Projects

This extraordinary one-woman show maps the raw, but beautiful interior life of a misfit adolescent. Claudia, twelve and three quarters, finds herself suffering from the triple afflictions of puberty, unpopularity, and her parents' divorce. Using four astonishingly expressive masks, the performer evokes the anguished Claudia, her grandfather, her dad's new girlfriend, and the school janitor. Alternatively wrenchingly sad and wrenchingly funny, I, Claudia casts a spell of rare power in the theatre.

Visit atplive.com for more information. Box Office: 403-294-7402

The Segal Centre (Montreal) in association with Crow's Theatre presents

Geometry in Venice

by Michael Mackenzie
starring Alegra Fulton

January 31 - February 14 , 2010

In January 2010, Crow’s Theatre will partner with Montreal’s Segal Centre in a revival of Crow’s Theatre Writer in Residence Michael Mackenzie’s seminal work Geometry in Venice.

Geometry in Venice is an adaptation of Henry James' novella The Pupil, in which a young Canadian Cambridge grad is hired by the outwardly aristocratic yet impoverished Morreens to provide their sickly genius son with a classical education. In characteristic Jamesian fashion, it teases out a beautifully intricate tragedy chronicling a year in the life of an ex-pat family living in Europe at the end of the 19th century.

Visit segalcentre.org for more information. Box Office: 514-739-7944

Crow's Theatre presents the workshop production of

Out the Window

by Liza Balkan

Spring 2010

Using the court transcripts and interviews with experts, this documentary theatre piece looks at the death of a 55-year old man, Otto Vass, during an encounter with four police officers 10 years ago.

Witness to several minutes of the “altercation” from her apartment window, Liza Balkan spent portions of the subsequent years following the incident, being interviewed and testifying at hearings and trials involving the four officers.

Developed in partnership with the Theatre Centre

Instructions to any future socialist government wishing to abolish Christmas

by Michael Mackenzie

Immediately after the fall of Leman Brothers, a hedge fund manager sits in his Toronto office in the hours before dawn, waiting for the overnight lending rates to arrive. The world as he knows it, is on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, the elevator below, noiselessly ascends to his office on the top floor. It carries his Alpha, a brilliant but troubled young woman responsible for the company’s staggering success. She’s just back from a company ordered sabbatical in the Cayman Islands following her nervous breakdown. She is determined to see him again. She needs to understand what happened between the two of them. And most importantly she is looking for a reason, any reason, not to kill him.

With the collapse of Leman Brothers (the largest bankruptcy in US history) began the final exposure of a world of staggering complexity held together with bluster, bravado, arcane mathematics and, often, bare-faced lies. As the world, fell to its knees, the long endured sermon about 'free-markets' and the perils of government regulation emerged more as pathology than an institution.

Michael Mackenzie, award-winning Canadian playwright and author of Geometry in Venice and The Baroness and the Pig, will be developing his script throughout the 09/10 season. Crow's Theatre will present public readings of the play in 2010. Dates to be announced.

Breath in Between
by Anton Piatigorsky

Roger has advertised on the Internet for someone to kill. When two people respond, he kills them both. Soon after, when Roger falls in love with Amy, the lovers have to reconsider their distant  relationships to other people. Breath In Between is a love story, a  ghost story, a detective story and a zombie tale.

Following his Dora Award-winning Eternal Hydra, Anton's latest is a quest for intimacy through disturbing and unsual means

These Beaten Eyes
by Misha Shulman

This story finds the biblical Pharaoh grieving over his son, killed in the final plague. The pain of his loss leads him to decide to let the Hebrews out of Egypt, but ultimately he cannot let them go, and chases them into the Sea of Reeds.

2 Untitled New Works
by Kristen Thomson

Award-winning playwright and performer Kristen Thomson is in the early stages of developing two new scripts comissioned by Crow's Theatre.

The first project looks at the complex middle years of an adult relationship through couples therapy. The second is a portrait of someone who longs to stretch beyond themself, a high school teacher sent on a 'dream trip' to Vietnam after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

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