TheatreRUN presents the world premiere of the musical adaptation of
Fyodor Dostoevski’s classic comic-neurotic-thriller
Dostoevski's
THE DOUBLE
BY TheatreRUN
February 3 – 19, 2012
Studio Theatre
... Two actors and one musician with a double bass collide in a schizophrenic feast of sight and sound
TheatreRUN, the Dora Award-winning company best known for co-creating the critically acclaimed smash hit Spent, presents the world premiere of The Double, a multi-disciplinary adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevski’s novella of the same name. Conceived by Artistic Director Adam Paolozza (who also directs) and Arif Mirabdolbaghi, bass-player and lyricist of the award-winning Canadian Metal band Protest The Hero, The Double combines physical theatre with live, jazzy double bass into a molotov cocktail of alienation and paranoia.
A dark comedic satire about our deepest fears of losing our identity, The Double previews February 2, opens February 3 and runs to February 19 at Factory Studio Theatre.
"Hillarious...like a Freudian dream" - audience reaction to The Double
Dostoevski’s brilliant prose mixed with a quirky live accompaniment on Double Bass provides a hilarious (and painfully accurate) cautionary tale about one man’s desperate attempts to fit in with a grotesque society and his gradual descent into madness when this fails.
Paolozza’s TheatreRUN is co-creator (with Why Not Theatre and Theatre Smith Gilmour) of the internationally acclaimed hit show Spent, nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and winning for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role (to both Paolozza and Ravi Jain). Spent played two nearly sold-out runs at Factory Theatre before playing a sold-out run at the Young Centre and a 4-week sold out run at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. Spent plays a limited run in New York City in the spring.
When Spent toured to the 2011 Undercurrents festival in Ottawa, Alvina Ruprecht of Capital Critics Circle said: “A rare phenomenon in English-speaking Canada...I kid you not, what this company has achieved is very important.” Paula Citron on the Toronto run noted on Classical 96.3fm: “Spent is first-class theatre from powerhouse creators.” Numerous other accolades abound.
TheatreRUN has been recognized as part of the next generation of exciting and physically innovative theatre creators whose original, highly physical, imagistic work has been produced in French and English - in Canada, Scotland, France, USA, China and India. As noted above, it co-created the award-winning Spent for which Paolozza won a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Arif Mirabdolbaghi is an exciting up-and-coming Canadian music star with the progressive-rock outfit Protest The Hero, whose accolades include a #1 album, Juno nomination, certified Canadian gold DVD, several CMW awards and extensive touring all across North America, Europe and Asia.
Joining Paolozza and Mirabdolbaghi on stage in The Double is co-creator Viktor Lukawski who, like Paolozza, is a graduate of École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. While abroad, he performed and developed new works in France, the UK and Poland, and became a member of the English theatre company Wet Picnic.
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Tickets are available via www.factorytheatre.ca, by email at , by phone at 416-504-9971, or at the door.
Created by
The Company
Directed by
Adam Paolozza
Original Music by
Arif Mirabdolbaghi
Starring
Adam Paolozza
Arif Mirabdolbaghi
Viktor Lukawski
Set Design
Ken Mackenzie
Lighting Design
André Du Toit
Assistant Director
Lisa Diliberto
VENUE
Factory Studio Theatre
125 Bathurst Street
DATES
February 3 - 19, 2013
Feb 2 - Preview
Feb 3 - Opening Night
TIMES
Tues - Sat, 8pm
Sun, 2:30pm
TICKETS
$20 Tues
$25 Wed - Thurs
$28 Fri - Sat
PWYC Sun
Student/Senior/Arts Worker Discounts available
photo: Lacey Creighton