Even This Old Town Was A Forest
Produced by Birdtown and Swanville
1735, Toronto. The woods are full of wooly mammoths, there is no food, it’s cold, and no one can remember how they ended up here. But we’re all here now. Stuck together. And the Toronto Island is getting closer and soon it will swallow us whole.
Even This Old Town Was A Forest is the latest from local theatre club Birdtown and Swanville. It is a play about how we got here, about all of our colonial histories with this land and how the past continues to haunt the future.
Text by: Aurora Stewart de Peňa
Creative Director : Nika Mistruzzi
Starring: Jon Blair, William Ellis, Cara Gee, Donna Maloney, Naomi Skwarna, Norman Yeung
Designs by: Sofia Bohdanowicz, Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea, Vanessa Fischer, Allie Marshall, Kristina McNamee, Alia O’Brien, James Vanderklein, Andrew Zukerman
Producer: Mark Aikman
October 15, 2016
to October 23, 2016
Tickets are Regular $25
The Theatre Centre
Saturday, October 15 – 7:00pm – Preview
Sunday, October 16 – 2:00pm – Opening
Tuesday, October 18 – 7:00pm
Wednesday, October 19 – 7:00pm
Thursday, October 20 – 7:00pm
Friday, October 21 – 7:00pm
Saturday, October 22 – 2:00pm – PWYC tickets available in person, 2 hours before the performance, cash only.
Saturday, October 22 – 7:00pm
Sunday, October 23 – 2:00pm – PWYC tickets available in person, 2 hours before the performance, cash only.
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