TORONTO'S TARRAGON THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2021-2022 SEASON

At the point of this article’s publication, it looks as if Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre is the first to announce its possible indoor season.

Some hopeful changes on the horizon obviously with public health recommendations.

As the theatre looks to the future, Artistic Director Richard Rose and Managing Director Andrea Vagianos recently announced Tarragon Theatre’s plan for the 2021-22 season, first featuring Tarragon Acoustic Reboot. This will be followed in 2022, public health permitting, by the live performances of six Tarragon and World Premiere plays originally delayed by the closures of 2020 - offering compelling, heartbreaking drama and social commentary from award-winning Canadian playwrights.

According to its recent press release, reuniting artists and audiences under one roof, Tarragon should be accessible to everyone. So, in the tradition of founding Artistic Director Bill Glassco who introduced pay-what-you-can Sundays to Toronto, Tarragon invites patrons to dream and devise their personal lineup and decide what they pay. This will be a pay-what-you-can subscription season. 

Please click the You Tube link from Tarragon for more on the pay what you can subscription season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVqlbDVDK8

Tarragon’s audience has always been open to exploring new stories; and now, new forms like the 2020-21 Tarragon Acoustic series. This fall, as we embark on the next 50 years at Tarragon we look forward to sharing more Tarragon Acoustic, reconnecting at in-person performances beginning in January 2022, programmed by Richard Rose, and welcoming new Artistic Director, Mike Payette. 

Tarragon Acoustic Reboot is a series of select audio plays from Tarragon's canon, streaming anytime, anywhere, performed by Canada’s finest artists from across the country, produced with the expertise of Chris Tolley and Laura Mullin of CBC’s PlayME. Reboot includes exclusive “behind the curtain” conversations with your favourite artists. 

In early 2022, Tarragon aims to present long awaited works interrupted by the closure of in-person theatre. The Runner by Christopher Morris will re-open at the Mainspace, followed by the World Premiere of Three Women of Swatow by Chloé Hung in the Extraspace. Theatregoers can expect more World Premieres to include Light by Rosa Labordé, Orphan Song by Sean Morley Dixon, The Herd by Kenneth T. Williams, in association with The Citadel Theatre and NAC Indigenous Theatre, and Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers by Makambe K. Simamba, a Tarragon Theatre and Black Theatre Workshop co-production, based on the world premiere production produced by b current.

The health and safety of our patrons, staff, artists and volunteers remains a primary concern. Though we intend to return to the theatre in 2022, Tarragon will follow Toronto Public Health and Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines and join our colleagues from cultural organizations in Toronto and across North America taking similar steps. Their goal is to reignite live and in-person theatre for their artists, their audience, and their community.

TARRAGON ACOUSTIC REBOOT (September 2021 - June 2022)
Plays being made available to stream include but are not limited to:

Leaving Home by David French
This is War by Hannah Moscovitch
7 Stories by Morris Panych
Sibs by Diane Flacks and Richard Greenblatt
It’s All True by Jason Sherman
Democracy by John Murrell
Lion in the Streets by Judith Thompson
The Shape of a Girl by Joan MacLeod
Half Life by John Mighton
Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia
Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad

For further information about its upcoming season, visit the Tarragon website: www.tarragontheatre.com.

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