Gynty

"That is Cherniak's - and the theatre's - triumph: that an alternative reality can be treated with so little physical evidence of its existence"
-- Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail

Written by Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Frank McGuinness
Directed by Leah Cherniak
Performed by Emma Campbell, Oliver Dennis, David Jansen, Marcel Jeannin & Martha Ross
Sets & Costumes by Tamara Marie Kucheran
Music composed & performed by Kirk Elliott
Lighting by Andrea Lundy

The sweeping expanse of Peer Gynt’s story, with its 50 characters and fantastical locations, is zoomed down to a suspended and intimate world; five actors in a recording studio have been hired to perform Peer Gynt as a radio play. Based partly on Norwegian folk traditions, Peer is a wild and irrepressible young man; a dreamer, story-teller, a liar. He reinvents himself through a series of improbable adventures and Baroque dreams, journeys from the mountains of Norway to the deserts of Africa with a cast that includes trolls, lunatics, sailors and slaves.

* Nomination for a Dora Mavor Moore Award; Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principle Role: Oliver Dennis as the aged Peer Gynt
* Nomination for Outstanding Musical Direction: Kirk Elliott