Tarragon Theatre

Tarragon Theatre

The Tarragon Theatre was founded in 1970 by Bill and Jane Glassco near Casa Loma in Toronto.

Background

The theatre is housed in a building originally designed for light industrial use - for instance, it was once a cribbage board factory.

It has championed the work of Canadian playwrights David French, Michel Tremblay, Judith Thompson, Jason Sherman, Michael Healey and others, as well as productions of plays by canonical playwrights such as Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg.

The theatre holds two performances venues, containing approximately 200 and 100 seats respectively. One of their reherasal halls can also be used as a performance area, seating 60.

It remains one of the foremost organizations for producing new plays in Canada.

Artistic Directors

*Bill Glassco (1971-1982)
*Urjo Kareda (1982-2002)
*Richard Rose (2002-present)

2008-2009 Season

*"Scorched" - by Wajdi Mouawad
*"" - by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and William S. Burroughs
*"Bashir Lazhar" - by Evelyne de la Chenelière, translated by Morwyn Brebner
*"Moliere" - by Sabina Berman
*"East of Berlin" - by Hannah Moscovitch
*"Ubuntu" - by The Ensemble
*"The Patient Hour" - by Kristen Thomson
*"Another Home Invasion" - by Joan MacLeod
*"A Beautiful View" - by Daniel MacIvor
*"House of Many Tongues" - by Jonathan Garfinkel

External links

* [http://www.tarragontheatre.com/ Tarragon Theatre web site]
* [http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007872 Tarragon Theatre] at The Canadian Encyclopedia


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