Troubadour Theatre Collective presents
SKYLIGHT
By David Hare
Directed by Brenda Bazinet

On a cold London evening, Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a restless, self-made restaurant and hotel tycoon whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

David Hare is the author of 29 plays for stage, including Plenty, Racing Demon, Amy’s View, and Stuff Happens. His many screenplays include The Hours and The Reader.

Skylight was originally produced at the National Theatre in 1995, before transferring to the West End and Broadway, and won an Olivier Award for Best Play. It is also the winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

David Hare's compelling, intelligent, and intensely human work will be presented in an intimate, immersive environment, as per Troubadour's mandate.

You are invited to join Edward, Tom and Kyra in Kyra's flat on the 3rd Floor of The ARTS Project

***Please note that seating is limited, advance reservation is recommended.
Site-specific performance includes stairs. For more information, visit: www.troubadour.ca

August 18, 19, 20 & 25, 26, 27, 8pm
Doors open at 7:30 PM
Performance begins at 8:00 PM
Run-time: 2hrs 20mins
Tickets: $25

Tickets also available at the door or by calling The ARTS Project at 519-642-2767.
Tickets are non-refundable. Late arrivals will not be admitted to the theatre.

Cast:
Kyra Hollis - Francesca Ranalli
Edward Sergeant - Jeff Dingle
Tom Sergeant - Jeff Miller

Creative Team:
Director - Brenda Bazinet
Stage Manager - Cassidy Gallant
Set and Props Design - Alina Subrt
Costume Design - Rebecca Wolsley
Lighting and Sound Design - TBA
Producer - Peter Janes

Brenda Bazinet - Director
Brenda is a director, actor and acting instructor.  Directing credits
include:  Other Desert Cities, The Penelopiad (Citadel); The Ladies Foursome (Grand Theatre); Munsched!! (George Brown Theatre School); Of the Fields, Lately (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Sea (Actors Repertory Company); Little Women, The Broadway Musical (Assistant Director, Citadel Theatre); and Problem Child, Adult Entertainment, Our Town, Unity 1918, Three Sisters (Fanshawe Theatre School). Select acting credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, Equus, The Goat (Citadel); Hamlet (Resurgence Theatre); Ring Round The Moon, Wild Duck (Soulpepper); The Price (Sudbury Theatre Centre); End of Civilization (Factory Theatre); Leaving Home (Blyth Festival); and Patience (Canadian Stage Company/Grand Theatre). A Gemini Award-winning actor, Brenda has appeared in over one hundred film and television projects.  As an acting instructor, Brenda has taught for the Citadel/Banff Professional Theatre Academy, George Brown Theatre School, Ryerson University (Act II), Equity Showcase, Actraworks, Actors Workshop, Armstrong Acting Studio, the Women in the Director’s Chair Program (Banff), Theatre Ontario and Humber College (Acting for Film and Television Program). She has conducted Acting for the Camera workshops in cities across Canada and served as a private coach to actors preparing for film and theatre auditions.

Jeff Dingle - Edward Sergeant
Jeff is a New Brunswick born actor currently based in Toronto. He is very happy to have found himself in London working with this wonderful team of artists on Skylight for Troubadour Theatre Collective. Stage Credits include Let’s Travel in Time, Twelfth Night… A PuppetEpic! (Toronto Fringe); Ambrose (Single Thread Theatre); Mourning Dove (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Model Wanted (NotaBle Acts); God’s Middle Name, Wally Finds His Inner Bear, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Scooter Thomas makes it to the top of the World (Theatre New Brunswick Young Company). TV/Film: Man Seeking Woman (FXX Network). Jeff is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School and Saint Thomas University. Love as always to his family out East.

Jeff Miller - Tom Sergeant
Jeff is thrilled to be a part of Troubadour Theatre Collective's 
production of Skylight this summer. He was most recently seen in Watershed Theatre's production of King Lear with David Fox in Toronto and played Karel Brady in Young People's Theatre's (YPT) production ofHana's Suitcase in Toronto, Montreal and Seattle (2015 Dora nomination - best ensemble). Last year for YPT he was Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (2014 Dora nomination - best ensemble). Other YPT credits include Liars and Reading the Signs. Other theatre credits include Cock, The Normal Heart, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project (Studio 180 Theatre); Same Time Next Year, Half-Life, Rabbit Hole(Sudbury Theatre Centre); Craplicker (Toronto Fringe); Poochwater, One Good Marriage (Theatre Passe Muraille); King Lear (Walking Shadow Theatre); Communicating Doors (Magnus Theatre), The Othello Project (Florida Shakespeare Theater); The Baltimore Waltz (Boston Threshold Theatre) Love! Valour! Compassion! (Boston Speakeasy Theater); and The Lisbon Traviata(Boston Triangle Theater). Jeff spent four seasons in North Bay with the Nipissing Stage Company performing in over 16 productions including Stones in his Pockets, Moon Over Buffalo, Sherlock's Last Case and Rumors. Jeff has taught drama at Rosedale School for the Arts in Toronto and North Bayʼs Canadore College. Upcoming in January 2017, Jeff will play Daniel in Studio 180 Theatre/Mirvish Productions' Canadian premiere of Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg.

Francesca Ranalli - Kyra Hollis
Francesca is looking forward to working on such an extraordinary play with such a wonderful group of artists. London audiences will remember Francesca as Vanda in Venus in Fur (Fountainhead Theatre). Select actor/singer credits include Venus in Fur and Red (Fountainhead Theatre), Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Salamander Theatre), The Mikado (Drayton Entertainment/HCP), Olga in Eugene Onegin and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (Ottawa Fringe), and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Opera Lyra Ottawa/National Arts Centre and National Gallery of Canada). Francesca will also be playing Viola in Twelfth Night this summer, with Theatre Georgian Bay. Francesca's directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Troubadour Theatre Collective), The Brothers Grimm (Opera Nuova, Edmonton), Assistant Director for Carmen (Opera Nuova, Edmonton) and La Traviata (Highlands Opera Studio). Directing Intern with Opera Nuova, included excerpts from Hamlet, Lakme, Mignon, Louise, and On the Town. Francesca has also sung as a classical and jazz soloist in Canada and abroad. She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Ottawa and has participated in several young artist programs, as an actor, a singer, and a director. Francesca teaches in the Fanshawe College Acting program, and is a founding member of Troubadour Theatre Collective, currently creating work in London, Ontario.

Reviews:

“A magnificent chamber play by one of the few major playwrights in our language. […] Skylight might well one day take its place among the small, residual handful of fin de siècle classics.” – New York Post

"David Hare's luminously beautiful and wildly truthful Skylight is deeply and truly about people...It is a fascinating play [that] tears at the heart...Theatre going today doesn't get much better than this." - New York Post

 “There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience’s attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and dangerous: a fight to the death, or the dawning of salvation. David Hare’s Skylight is punctuated by such moments. They are the signs that a dramatist of the first rank is writing at full stretch, in complete command of his material, undogmatic and unafraid, unforgiving and compassionate.”
– Sunday Times

 “Tom and Kyra’s encounter leaves them both shaken, both learning more about themselves than is comfortable.”  - Stage Door

 “It picks you up and hurls you along for two hours, and then resolves with such dramatic rightness that you walk out completely satisfies and at the same time all shook up.”
- The Daily Beast

 “Some plays dissolve with time. David Hare’s Skylight actually seem to have got richer since its premiere in 1995.” - The Guardian

"Skylight" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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