The Reviews Are In! Audiences and Critics Love As I Lay Dying

Adriano Sobretodo • Mar 19, 2013

Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s As I Lay Dying has hit the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainstage and the reviews are in! Audiences love this gothic tale of the Bundren family’s grotesque journey across the Mississipi.

“A wonderful and vivid translation of William Faulkner’s As I lay Dying . You will swear you have seen live horses and rivers in flood and barns on fire as well as the strangest and most heartbreaking family on that Passe Muraille stage.”
– Michael Ondaatje

“Theatre Smith-Gilmour has created another triumph in As I Lay Dying by staging what many would consider an unstageable novel, successfully bringing out all its complex themes and cruel ironies.”
– Christopher Hoile, Stage Door (4 out of 5 Stars)
March 14, 2013

“The nightmarish landscape of As I Lay Dying is home territory for the remarkable Theatre Smith-Gilmour, which has been entertaining and challenging Toronto audiences for 30 years with consistently satisfying, imagistic theatre.”
– Robert Crew, Toronto Star (3 out of 4 Stars)
March 15, 2013

“Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith, principals of the long-running Theatre Smith-Gilmour, prove to be more than capable of meeting in a new stage adaptation that had its world première on the Theatre Passe Muraille mainstage Wednesday.”
– John Coulbourn, Toronto Sun (4 out of 5)
March 18, 2013

“The members of the cast are the future of theatre in this town. And I had forgotten the sheer and simple pleasure of the magic of live performance.”
– Joe Fiorito, Toronto Star
March 20, 2013

“Beautiful work, well done, I loved the physicality , compositions, and rhymes. “
– Kim Collier, Canadian Stage

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