Full Description for BREAKFAST

From the company who brought you Clean Irene & Dirty Maxine

Independent Aunties
in Association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre present

BREAKFAST

Mar 17 - Apr 4, 2010

Created by the company
Written by Anna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry
Directed by Brendan Healy
Featuring Karin Randoja, with Evalyn Parry and Anna Chatterton
Set & Costume Design Julie Fox
Sound Design Richard Windeyer
Lighting Design Laird MacDonald

"Utterly compelling ... titillating and threatening" Xtra! Magazine

"One of the top ten shows of 2008" Paula Citron, Globe and Mail

Nominated for 3 Dora Awards, Buddies is thrilled to present a remount of the Aunties' highly acclaimed and unnervingly intimate production.

Meet Marnie, a woman trying out a self-help program in an attempt to "move ahead" in her life. The audience is invited to her kitchen, as voyeurs to Marnie's morning rituals. "Randoja's absorbing, fearless performance" (EYE Magazine) anchors this surreal and chilling encounter with one woman's psyche, which takes an unflinching look at loneliness, self-delusion and our cultural obsession with self-help and personal transformation. You'll never look at breakfast the same way again ...

By colliding the paranoid world of Roman Polanski's The Tenant with the feel-good babble of our Oprah Winfrey worldview, Breakfast theatrically explores the question of whether we can ever truly start over. Each morning and each breakfast is a new beginning. Breakfast uses the everyday custom of breaking the fast to explore bigger notions of change and renewal. Can one ever really change oneself?

Breakfast was conceived and developed by The Independent Aunties during their three-year residency at Toronto's The Theatre Centre. Breakfast expands on the company's absurdist and darkly humourous style but is a departure with regards to its theatrical vision and use of space.

For more info on The Independent Aunties visit www.independentauntie.ca

Breakfast was developed through the Theatre Centre Residency Program

Breakfast
Previews March 17 & 18, Opens March 19, Runs to April 4, 2010
Shows Tues - Sat 8pm, Sun 2:30
Tickets: Previews $15, Tues/Wed $20, Thurs/Fri $25, Sat $29, Sun matinee PWYC (Advance $20)
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto, ON
Box Office 416-975-8555

Photo of Karin Randoja by Jeremy Mimnagh

Reviews for BREAKFAST

• FOUR STARS (OUT OF 4) "a performance you wont easily forget." - Star  read full review
• FOUR STARS "theatrically perfect" - eye weekly  read full review
• XTRA COVER: Brendan Healy: The man behind the curtain  read full review
• "one of the most exciting and different nights of theatre you're likely to see in this town." - Torontoist  read full review

Show Details for BREAKFAST

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