Theatre Rusticle

Toronto's Best Movement Based Theatre Company

RECENT NEWS

Rusticle Goes Dora!!!

On June 30th, Theatre Rusticle was thrilled to attend the 29th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. We were up for five awards this year for April 14, 1912 including Outstanding Costume Design (Lindsay Anne Black), Set Design (Lindsay Anne Black), Lighting Design (Michelle Ramsay), Direction (Allyson McMackon) and Production in the Independent Theatre Divison. Michelle Ramsay was the big winner, receiving not only the Dora for her design, but also the prestigious Pauline McGibbon Award administered by the Ontario Arts Council. Congratulations to Michelle and all the Rusticles!!!

" a stunning and memorable production" The Coast, May 2008

photo of Matthew Romantini, Patrick Conner & Lucy Rupert from April 14, 1912

at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver. Magnetic North Festival.

Photo by Lindsay Anne Black

SuperNova Theatre Festival (Dartmouth NS) and Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Vancouver BC)

May and June were spent touring April 14, 1912 to the Atlantic and Pacific. We opened Eastern Front Theatre's SuperNova Theatre Festival at the Alderney Landing Theatre May 1st, 2008 and from June 9th to 13th played at the Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver as part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. The show was hailed as a "chilling sensory experience" (The Chronicle Herald) and "a hypnotic waltz of the real and unreal...fact-based and fantastical" (The Vancouver Sun).

For those of you who didn't get a chance to see it, we are working on some touring, so watch for the ship to come sailing near you in the very near future. Check back soon for more updates !!

In Residence at Theatre Passe Muraille

We will be one of many companies in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille for the 2008/09 season. We are very happy to be collaborating with TPM and developing a new work. More info on workshop showings will be coming soon.

And Now????

It's summer and we will be taking a small break to try to enjoy the season! On the horizon however is the development of a new work inspired the "The Scottish Play" and tentatively called Birnam Wood. We will be developing this work this fall in a series of development projects. It will not hit the stage for production until 2009, but get ready to enter the realm of nightmare and hope, trees and the occult...and a term we are throwing around these days called "Scottishy Discos" (we're going to figure out what that means in the workshop process). It's a big project and will be uniting director Allyson McMackon once again with designers Lindsay Anne Black and Michelle Ramsay as well as a strong ensemble of core artists and those new to the company.

Please check back frequently for more information.