New Stage Adaptation of BRAVE NEW WORLD Opens In One Week

Brave New World features a dynamite ensemble, including many actors who have been with the show since its first workshop back in 2014. The ensemble brings a wealth of knowledge to the team and years of experience. The ensemble for Brave New World is: Nehassaiu deGannes, Jesse Dwyre, Sofia Fabiilli, Carlos González-Vio, Eli Ham, Ryan Hollyman, Adriano Sobretodo Jr., Zoë Sweet. Please click here to view bios and headshots of the team.

Known for their innovative approach to space, Litmus Theatre will transform the striking Theatre Passe Muraille post-industrial space, once a bread factory and stable house, into the World State that Huxley imagined in 1932. Dora Award-winning director Matthew Thomas Walker and two-time Dora Award-winning designer Patrick Lavender will draw on the post-industrial character of Passe Muraille's architecture to inspire an imaginative production activating rarely used space surrounding and above the audience.

Led by Artistic Directors Adriano Sobretodo Jr., Claire Wynveen and Matthew Thomas Walker, Litmus Theatre first made a splash with the daring Matchbox Macbeth, which was set in a ramshackle shed in downtown Toronto and named one of the best shows of 2010 by NOW Magazine. Litmus' next show, Birth of Frankenstein, was nominated for four Dora Awards and won for Best Indie Director. Litmus Theatre will be using the same fearless ingenuity to enliven Brave New World.

Brave New World is known for its iconic contributions to culture, such as the euphoric drug SOMA, the conveyor-belts full of human embryos, the predetermination and sleep-teaching techniques, and the infamously promiscuous culture. Litmus Theatre will introduce new audiences to these iconic ideas that Huxley dreamed up in the 1930s, while also moving beyond the tropes to mine the deeper meanings at the core of the text.

Brave New World will be the hot-ticket indie theatre event of the fall. Audiences will witness Litmus Theatre's most accessible show ever - all of the company's previous shows have been staged in extremely intimate spaces and have been runaway hits and sellouts. This is Toronto's opportunity to meet one of the city's most acclaimed up-and-coming theatre companies at one of the birthplaces of Canadian theatre.