Thank you to all for making 2019 a great year for One Little Goat Theatre Company. I'm delighted to share the news below and am looking forward to seeing you in 2020!
-Adam Seelig, Artistic Director
PLAY REACHES 14,000 KIDS
For all the theatres and venues I’ve attended, the most influential of all might still be the gym floor of Osler Elementary School in Vancouver, where, as a kid, I saw some of my first theatrical performances. It is with those performances in mind that I wrote PLAY: A (Mini) History of Theatre for Kids, which reached 14,000 elementary students and teachers in over 50 Model Schools for Inner Cities throughout Toronto in 2019, at no cost to the schools, with support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and individuals like you.
PLAY will be published in a special edition printed at the Coach House Press in Toronto. It will also be available through One Little Goat’s website (January 2020).
CLAUDE GAUVREAU LIBRETTO
One Little Goat just received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to translate and publish Claude Gauvreau’s extraordinary libretto, The Vampire and the Nymphomaniac. In 2013, One Little Goat staged the English-language world premiere of Gauvreau’s revolutionary The Charge of the Expormidable Moose, and we are thrilled, along with translator Ray Ellenwood, to bring more of Gauvreau’s radical theatre to the public. Le vampire et la nymphomane (1949, Montreal) is a surreal opera depicting star-crossed lovers kept apart by the oppressive forces of patriarchy. Haunting, absurd, linguistically wild and deeply rooted in emotion, it is a testament to the visceral power of Gauvreau’s poetic theatre.
HANOCH LEVIN STAGED READING
Please join us at 2:30pm on Sunday, January 26 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street, for a staged reading of Labour of Life, a misanthropic comedy by one of Israel’s most celebrated and controversial poet-playwrights, Hanoch Levin (1943-1999). The reading (in English) is free to all, in association with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre.
SUPPORT ONE LITTLE GOAT
With PLAY slated to reach 7,000 more students in 25 Model Schools for Inner Cities in 2020 (bringing our cumulative outreach to 37,500 kids!), I hope you will support One Little Goat's programming. By making your generous donation today, you enable a new generation to discover the beauty and excitement of drama.
As an official charity, One Little Goat Theatre Company, North America’s only company dedicated to poetic theatre, depends on individual donations to make productions a reality. Your financial support is tax-deductible and greatly appreciated! Our office is volunteer-run, so 100% of your donation goes directly to programming.
How to donate:
Online through Canada Helps
E-transfer to onelittlegoattc@gmail.com
Cheque to One Little Goat Theatre Company, 422 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2Z4, CANADA
