One Night Only: Special Fundraising Gala Performance of AS I LAY DYING
“A year ago, Theatre Smith-Gilmour presented an excerpt of the work the company had been doing working from William Faulkner’s
As I Lay Dying . It was at our annual fundraiser that included a variety of performances. The work stood out even then, though it was very new.
Planning for this year’s fundraiser, the Board put together a postcard for the gala (thank you Lesley Stodart for the beautiful design). We drew from the spirited horse Ben Muir had portrayed so vividly in the excerpt, hoping that had made the cut to this year’s workshop production. It did!
I’m not an actor, but I know that Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s development process is intense. The company works from texts, not scripts. They work ideas and characters and vignettes over and over, taking scenes that work further, reworking or discarding ideas that don’t. Theatre Smith-Gilmour works on a piece for years. And it shows.
Seeing As I Lay Dying a year after that initial excerpt is a treat. It’s like being able to go back and fill in the rest of the picture of something glimpsed out of the corner of an eye. Now it all fits together. I got to experience the horse scene again. It’s gratifyingly near the beginning of the work. I’d wondered if it would be as evocative as I’d remembered. And it is!”
-Kim Hume, Chair – Board of Directors
Please join Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour and the members of the company for the
TSG Annual Fundraising Gala
A special gala performance of
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s workshop production of:
AS I LAY DYING
Adapted from William Faulkner
April 26 at 6:00 p.m. (performance begins at 7:00pm)
The Theatre Centre 1087 Queen Street West (at Dovercourt)
hors d’oeuvres • cash bar • performance • fabulous silent auction
Gala Grand Prize:
Buy a ticket to our April 26 gala fundraiser or make a donation to Theatre Smith-Gilmour by May 15 and be entered into a draw for our gala prize: Train tickets for two (return) from Toronto to Montreal courtesy of Via Rail Canada and two tickets to a 2012-13 Centaur Theatre Company production.
Donations: Call 416-703-2773 ext. 201 or make a donation securely online through Canada Helps at www.theatresmithgilmour.com
Tickets for the TSG Gala are $45 (Student/Artist $22) available via The Theatre Centre Box Office at 416-538-0988
A special thank you to the following for their gala support:
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Stage, Centaur Theatre Company, Civello Spa, Factory Theatre, Laywine’s Pens & Organizers, Luminato Festival, Penny Gerrie, Playwrights Canada Press, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Tarragon Theatre, The Red Tea Box, The Theatre Centre, The Toronto Fringe Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Via Rail Canada, W Burger Bar.
