An Invitation from One Reed Theatre and Daniel Mroz

[Daniel Mroz]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to One Reed Theatre's new performance Nor The
Cavaliers Who Come With Us, which will be playing at Toronto's Summerworks
Festival this August.

One Reed Theatre was founded in the summer of 2005 by four recent graduates
of the National Theatre School of Canada - Frank Cox O'Connell, Megan Flynn,
Marc Tellez and Evan Webber - and myself. We came together with the desire
to create original theatre that is physically dynamic, musically
sophisticated and intellectually challenging.

The result is our new play, Nor The Cavaliers Who Come With Us, which tells
the story of the conquest of Mexico through  a contemporary Canadian
tourist's quest for 'an intelligent source of evil in the world'.

While audiences in Montréal, Toronto and Ottawa have already seen our
workshop versions of the performance, Nor The Cavaliers Who Come With Us
premiered to great acclaim on July 21, 2006 at the Catskill Festival of New
Theatre in Highland Lake, New York.

Here's what people have been saying about the piece:

'...intelligent, rigorous, moving, funny, and at times, thrilling. This is
an exceptionally gifted and determined group of young artists, who have
created a remarkably assured and complex piece of theatre.'

Ker Wells, 
Director, Number 11 Theatre
Instructor, National Theatre School of Canada


Le travail de Daniel Mroz et de ses acolytes est non seulement d'une grande
qualité, mais aussi d'une grande originalité.  Cette production éblouit,
tellement l'esthétique est réussie.  Ils ont trouvé dans la simplicité une
poésie corporelle et une gestuelle qui laissera personne indifférent.

Joël Beddows,
Directeur artistique, Théâtre la Catapulte (Ottawa, Canada)


³I think of One Reed Theatre as a group of graceful conjurers.  They
accomplish that remarkable trick of making precise, rigorous, highly
demanding performance appear effortless.  They exhibit wit, insight, and
intelligence beyond their years (as individuals and as a company) and
animate complex ideas through a beguiling combination of lyrical movement,
song, and word.  Their work is fine visceral poetry, and as such it bespeaks
skill, ability, and imagination through the erasure of exertion.²

Bruce Barton,
Editor, Theatre Research in Canada

ŒŠ it is stunning - everything that live theatre should be: original,
questioning, arresting, and beautiful. This will be a company to watch for
years to come.¹

Slade Billew,
Artistic Director, Theatre of Operations (Richmond, Virginia, USA)

ŒNor The Cavaliers Who Come with Us is a strong new theatre performance that
blends extreme physical precision with humour, terrific singing and
wonderful four-sided boxing ring style set. What a beautiful first show for
this new group.¹

Tannis Kowalchuk,
Producer, Catskill Festival of New Theatre
Artistic Director, NaCl Theatre (New York, USA)


Our Summerworks dates are as follows:

Nor The Cavaliers Who Come With Us at the Factory Theatre Mainspace
125 Bathurst (at Adelaide), Toronto

Thursday, August 3rd, 8pm
Saturday, August 5th, 5pm
Sunday, August 6th, 6:30pm
Tuesday, August 8th, 11pm
Saturday, August 12th, 9:30pm
Sunday, August 13th, 8pm

For more information, please see www.onereedtheatre.com or call 416.910.3930

We look forward to seeing you there,

Best,


Daniel 





Daniel Mroz, Ph.D.
 
Assistant Professor of Theatre / Professeur adjoint de théâtre
University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

135 Séraphin Marion #304C
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5, Canada
613.562.5800 #1265

dmroz at uottawa.ca

www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/theatre/eng/mroz.html

Director, One Reed Theatre Ensemble
www.onereedtheatre.com
 




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