With Bated Breath, a new play by Bryden MacDonald opened last week to an enthusiastic standing ovation. See for yourself why Montrealers are talking about this highly theatrical, poetic and provocative play!
In Bryden MacDonald’s words, his plays are "about journeys and rebirth – their endings bring new beginnings. They often shed light on those society has forgotten; those, who for one reason or another have found themselves trapped - and what happens when these people are set free. In With Bated Breath, memory plays a prominent role: how time effects it, how it fractures and is often reinvented depending on the situation - and why is it that certain things stay with us with a blistering clarity, while other things simply slip away only to reveal themselves again later without warning.
One of my many guilty pleasures is country music, when it was really country music: the heightened heartache of Tammy Wynette and George Jones; Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Tanya Tucker, and my all time fav Dolly Parton. With Bated Breath could easily be subtitled "a hurtin’ song". The broken characters in this play, with their double lives and tarnished armor, who sometimes only have their sense of humor to keep them afloat, are my heroes."
With Bated Breath is directed by Bryden MacDonald and Roy Surette. The set and costume designs are by James Lavoie with lighting design by Spike Lyne and sound design by Peter Cerone. With Bated Breath is stage managed by Todd Bricker with apprentice stage manager Stephanie Link.
With Bated Breath is performed Tuesday - Saturdays at 8pm (except 5/21 - 7pm), May 10 at 7pm, May 2, 9, 16, 23 at 2pm, May 6, 13 at 1pm. The show closes May 24.
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