Reading Week (Inaugural Trans-Canada Edition)

Reading Week (Inaugural Trans-Canada Edition)

October 3-6, 2007

(A Free Event)

Line up of Actors Just Announced!!

Reading Week (Trans-Canada Edition) is a unique collaboration between Factory Theatre and play development centres in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec and the Maritimes to choose some of the most exciting new works from their own development programs, and to bring these playwrights and their key collaborators to Toronto for a festival of play readings in the Factory Studio Theatre. Reading Week (Trans-Canada Edition) is produced by Factory's Director of Play Development, Bill Lane.

Reading Week 2007, Trans-Canada Edition

Wednesday Oct 3,7 pm

Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre

Trigger Happy by Mansel Robinson

A black comedy about gangsters, academics and a hit-man with carpal tunnel syndrome in his gun hand.

directed by Heather Inglis

with Matthew Edison, Neil Foster, Fiona Highet, Martin Julien, Carly Street

Thursday Oct, 3 pm

Playwrights’ Atlantic Resource Centre

Kill Zone by Wanda Graham

For Canadian troops, the rules for peace-keeping have changed but war is still hell. directed by R.H. Thomson

with Tanja Jacobs, Bob Nasmith, Erin MacKinnon, David Shelley

Thursday Oct 4, 7 pm

Playwrights’ Theatre Centre, Vancouver

House of KOSA by Miranda Huba

The theatre becomes a high fashion runway in this epic that exposes the inner workings of the oldest and most prestigious couture house in the world.

directed by Heidi Taylor

with Lisa Codrington, Bobby del Rio, John Evans, Chapelle Jaffe, Anita Majumdar, Michelle Monteith, Erin Shields

Friday Oct 5, 7 pm

Manitoba Association of Playwrights

The Confessional of the Black Penitents by Carolyn Gray

One night, Stella, a VLT gambling addict, rolls the wrong person for quick cash and is forced into an underground labyrinth under Main Street...

directed by Ardith Boxall

with Nancy Beatty, Jim Jones, Geza Kovacs

Saturday Oct 6, 3 pm

Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal

Offices by Alexis Martin

translated by Bobby Theodore

The audience is invited to a reshuffling of offices... the office of the priest, police detective, janitor of the shopping mall, the bishop, the rabbi and the psychoanalyst... as we share an investigation into the disappearance of a man with possible connections to a radical religious sect.

directed by Emma Tibaldo

with Maev Beaty, Sergio Di Zio, Dwight McFee, Michael McManus, Jorge Nef, Anand Rajaram, Michele Smith

Saturday Oct 6 7 pm

Alberta Playwrights’ Network, Calgary

Writer’s Block by Eugene Stickland

A delusional autobiographical fantasy. What if the playwright-in-residence could claim long term disability? If he were no longer able to perform his stated duties, he could be eligible for some serious cash.….

directed by Bob White

with Matthew Edison, Martin Julien, Ross Manson, Sarah Orenstein, Amy Rutherford

All readings at the Factory Studio Theatre,

125 Bathurst St, Toronto.

For more information call 416 504-9971 or visit www.factorytheatre.ca

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Sarah Mackie

Publicity and Outreach Officer

Factory Theatre

416.504.4473 x224

125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide) Toronto M5V 2R2