Canada’s National Arts Centre announces an overflowing season of theatre, dance and music for 2024-2025
Source: The Globe and Mail
Author of the Article: J. Kelly Nestruck
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The 2024-2025 season at the NAC English Theatre, run by director Nina Lee Aquino, certainly is a showcase for major productions from top theatres across the country.
The Shaw Festival’s upcoming production of Snow in Midsummer, an adaptation of a classic Chinese play directed by Aquino, will run at the NAC Oct. 30 to Nov. 9, while the Stratford Festival’s forthcoming world premiere of Salesman in China, a play by Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy about the American playwright Arthur Miller’s collaboration with a Chinese theatre company on a 1980s production of Death of a Salesman, will visit Ottawa from Jan. 16 to 25.
Controlled Damage, Andrea Scott’s play about civil rights activist Viola Desmond, will appear at the NAC in February in a co-production with Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, while Mahabharata, an acclaimed touring two-part adaptation of the ancient Sanskrit epic from Why Not Theatre that the National Creation Fund invested in, will be presented from May 13 to 24, 2025
Other English Theatre shows include the long-awaited Canadian premiere of Trident Moon, Anusree Roy’s thriller set during the partition of India, which Aquino will direct in a co-production with Toronto’s Crow’s Theatre; and First Métis Man of Odesa, a popular touring show from Edmonton’s Punctuate! Theatre about romance and war written and performed by real-life husband and wife Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova.
