February Theatre event
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The play is a poignant and innovative journey into the labyrinth of A.M. Klein's, mind, soul and times. One of the most creative Canadian poets of the 20th century, Abraham Moses Klein was born a century ago to Jews who fled the pogroms of the Ukraine to Montreal. During his lifetime, he produced a rich and powerful body of work that reflected the turbulent 20s, 30s and 40s.
A complex and conflicted man, Klein grew up as a "Jew boy" in the neighbourhoods around St. Urbain, The Main and Mount Royal, the ghetto streets of Montreal where he "dreamt pavement into pleasant bible-land" and battled the nightmares of private and worldly hells.
Seamlessly weaving his own text with Klein's poems, fiction, journals, and editorials, Farkas succeeds in creating an evocative, multi-layered play about the "realities" Klein lived in, explored, became entangled in, and never exited.
Directed by Liz Valdez, Haunted House is the multi-faceted portrait of Klein the poet, Klein the ghostwriter, Klein the lawyer, editorialist, almost-politician, and lobbyist for a Jewish homeland before and after the Holocaust. Valdez, who has previously worked with Farkas on a number of projects including his plays Surviving Wor(l)ds and Voices, brings her unique directorial insight and vision to make this play, this journey into silence, a truly haunting experience.
Tickets:
General Admission: $22.00
Students and Seniors $15.00
Group rates $14.00
Box Office: Venue:
514-848-9696 THE STUDIO,
tickets@tableaudhotetheatre.com Segal Centre for Performing Arts
http://www.cshow.ca/ 5170, ch. de la C��te-Ste-Catherine
Schedule - Feb. 18 ��� Mar. 5 Web Sites:
Preview Feb. 18 8:00 PM www.tableaudhotetheatre.com
Opening Feb. 19 8:00 PM http://endrefarkas.com
Tues. through Sun. 8:00 PM
Sunday Matinees 2:00 PM
Mondays & Fridays DARK
Closing Mar. 5 8:00 PM
Labels: Endre Farkas, Liz Valdez, Tableau D'H��te Theatre Productions, The Segal Centre for performing Arts