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My Father’s House: May 29 – June 2/ June 4 – 9.

March 2nd, 2015 in Events, Theatre | Comments Off on My Father’s House: May 29 – June 2/ June 4 – 9.

My Father’s House: May 29 – June 2/ June 4 – 9.  Doors: 7:30pm. Evening Shows: 8:00pm. Sun. Matinees: 2:00pm. Tickets: $20 / $15 students/ seniors/ un(der)waged. This new production of Brian Morton’s stage adaptation of My Father’s House, stars Lisa Langlois, and features Claire Shingleton-Smith, Keegan Chambers, and Joshua Perry Fleming.The play is produced and directed, by Gary Santucci.
Somewhere before the age of seven, Sylvia Fraser created a “twin” who shared her body while living a life apart from hers, with separate memories and experiences. For forty years, the existence of that twin and of the secret life she led while growing up in her father’s house was unknown to the author. How Fraser broke through the amnesia to discover and embrace the tortured self she left behind is the story of this astonishing stage play.
The memoir My Father’s House (1987) startled both critics and the public with its honesty, clarity of style and emotional force.  The book not only helped “heal” its author, but ignited public debate on a hidden social problem. More than thirty years, after publication, the book is more relevant than ever, in this the era of #metoo, as a moving example of how one survives trauma.
Lisa Langlois has chosen, to return to her stage career in playing the role of Sylvia. She is also developing My Father’s House for the screen, along with its prequel, Pandora.
Warning:  MY FATHER’S HOUSE contains mature content, adult themes, and simulated sexual assault. Viewer discretion is advised.
For show information please visit  www.theatre-erebus.ca
Born in North Bay, but raised between Dundas and Hamilton, Lisa Langlois, (a Hamilton Tigerette, Miss Teen Hamilton, Suma Cum Laude graduate from McMaster University….) was discovered by French “New Wave” director, Claude Chabrol who cast her both in the English language “Blood Relatives” opposite Donald Sutherland and the classic French film, “Violette Noziere”, opposite Isabelle Huppert. She’s worked with legendary directors John Huston, Hal Ashby, and J. Lee Thompson. Her stage debut was at the LaJolla Playhouse, when Canada’s Des McAnuff was the artistic director.
Given the “#metoo Movement” and coupled with the fact that Lisa, is also a “survivor” of sexual abuse, she believes that the timing is now right, to share Sylvia Fraser’s story with a wider audience.

Since its debut at the Dundas Centre for the Arts, in November 1992,  My Father’s House, has had several other productions – at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in 1995, at the Theatre Centre in Toronto in 1998, and as part of the McMaster Summer Drama Festival in 2005.  Most recently, in 2009, it was featured as a staged reading on the MainStage, of the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, as a fundraiser for the London Sexual Assault Centre.

Wednesday, May 29 @ 8:00 pm. ($10 Preview)
Thursday, May 30  @ 8:00 pm (Opening Night)
Friday, May 31 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday June 1 @ 8:00
Sunday June 2 @ 2:00 pm. (Talk-back performance with Sylvia Fraser)
Tuesday June 4 @ 8:00 pm. (Proceeds to Interval House Shelter)
Wednesday June 5 @ 8:00 pm (Proceeds to the Elizabeth Fry Society)
Thursday June 6 @ 8:00 pm
Friday June 7  @ 8:00 pm
Saturday June 8 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday June 9 @ 2:00 pm

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