Theatre Passe Muraille Announces 2013/14 Season Includes ON THE ROCKS and VITALS

On Monday April 8th, Artistic Director Andy McKim announced Theatre Passe Muraille's 2013/14 season at the company's annual fundraising gala event. The season presents a balanced approach of fresh new voices (Rob Kempson, Rosamund Small, Mitchell Cushman) and established theatrical powerhouses (Louise Pitre, George F. Walker, Linda Griffiths). It also features more than a dash of song and dance.

TPM has always valued a variety of artistic voices and forms. Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star said, "Under Andy McKim, Theatre Passe Muraille has become the most totally eclectic theatres in town, offering a home to every kind of work imaginable...it makes for an explosion of joy like nowhere else." This year the company has gone all out, presenting a new musical, a cabaret, an off-site production, a remount, a new comic drama, a youth theatre production, and a new play with both dance and music. All this in a way that is uniquely TPM.

Moss Park is written by George F. Walker and will be co-produced with Vancouver's leading company for young audiences, Green Thumb Theatre. Moss Park has all of Walker's edgy and unflinching dialogue; set in a world where young people are struggling to survive in today's cruel financial climate. McKim, asked Louise Pitre to go beyond a conventional cabaret to create On The Rocks, a show that looks into her own soul; unbound by the confines of someone else's script. McKim is also thrilled to welcome back Anita Majumdar in a production that pairs Bollywood dancing with an indictment of shadism in the industry. Same, Same But Different will be dynamic and sexy, while questioning social standards; a great TPM combination.

The company is also looking back and looking forward. Returning to the stage is Pamela Sinha's Crash, winner of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards. TPM is staging this remount before its cross Canada tour this fall. TPM, welcomes new voice Rob Kempson for his first fully staged musical, The Way Back to Thursday. The long awaited Heaven Above, Heaven Below by Linda Griffiths, which was postponed last year due to her struggle with cancer will now come to light. And finally -it wouldn't be Theatre Passe Muraille without a site-specific show- Vitals by Rosamund Small, an in association production with Artist in Residence Mitchell Cushman and his award winning company Outside the March. Vitals will take our audiences on a journey "beyond our walls" into the world of our city's EMS workers.

For more information call 416-504-7529 or visit www.artsboxoffice.ca.

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