After a premiere season in 2017 at the Luminato Festival and World Stage Design "Scenofest" in Taipei, Taiwan, Theaturtle's acclaimed Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play with Music will tour to Jaffa Fest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Theatre on Podol in Kiev, Ukraine, The National Theatre of the Czech Republic in Prague, and other significant European venues.
Prior to the tour, Toronto audiences will have one opportunity to see this genre-bending chamber musical gem based on the life and artwork of Charlotte Salomon as Theaturtle presents a public performance send-off on Saturday June 1 at 2pm at historic Hart House Theatre. Tickets are only $20 and are available online at tickets.harthouse.ca and theaturtle.com or by calling the box office at 416-978-2452.Life? Or Theatre? is the name that Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon gave to a sequence of nearly 800 paintings accompanied by text and musical references that she produced between 1940-42. Before her deportation to Auschwitz at age 26, she handed the work to a local physician, with the message: "Take good care of this... it is my whole life." Miraculously,her extraordinary work survived.Videos