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CollectedStoriesMediaRelease.pdf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY 2007
Media Contact: Wayne Sujo, 416-948-8162 waynesujo@hotmail.com
Mea Culpa Productions
presents an Equity Co-op Production
The Toronto Professional Premiere of Pulitzer Prize Finalist:
COLLECTED STORIES
by Donald Margulies
“Margulies’s best play to date. Clever and sensitively written. Poignant and provocative.”
- The New York Post
Directed by Sasha Wentges
Starring: Cayle Chernin (as Ruth) and Erin Mackinnon (as Lisa)
Set Design: Akiva Romer-Segal
Costume Design: Victoria Shillington
Lighting Design: Kristina McNamee
Live Music: Daniel Jamieson
May 23 – June 3, 2007
Tickets Now On Sale 416-531-1827
www.TOtix.ca
at Tarragon Theatre Extra Space
30 Bridgman Ave., Toronto, Canada
“The sensation is not unlike what happens when you listen to an opera in which the voices capture ineffable shades of feeling that
go way beyond the libretto.”
- Ben Brantley, New York Times
Collected Stories is about a respected short story writer and teacher in her mid-fifties, Ruth Steiner (Cayle Cherin)
has carved out a comfortable life for herself in a Greenwich Village apartment that she has occupied for decades.
Lisa Morrison (Erin Mackinnon) is a callow yet talented young graduate student and aspiring writer, a child of
suburban privilege when she meets Ruth and offers to become her assistant. Over six years, in as many scenes,
Collected Stories eavesdrops on Ruth and Lisa as their relationship evolves (from mentor/protégée to loving
friends to adversaries) and ultimately disintegrates-touching on age, artistic license and betrayal.
From the writer of Sight Unseen (Winner of an Obie for Best New American Play), The Loman Family Picnic, Broken Sleep,
Brooklyn Boy and Dinner with Friends (Pulitzer Prize Winner); comes the stage production of Collected Stories!
Collected Stories originally opened ten years ago on May 20, 1997 and starred Maria Tucci as Ruth Stein and Debra Messing as
Lisa Morrison (who would one year later rise to stardom as the second half of Will & Grace). It was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year. The legendary late Uta Hagen starred in the 2000 Stratford Festival production
(her final performance) opposite Lorca Simons. This challenging script which has attracted such incredible actresses
was subsequently made into a film in 2002, starring the great Linda Lavin as Ruth and Samantha Mathis as Lisa.
Collected Stories is directed by Mea Culpa Productions’ Artistic Director Sasha Wentges (The Darling Family, Uninvited)
and stars Cayle Chernin (Goin’ Down the Road, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Vagina Monologues) and Erin Mackinnon
(Cold Meat Party, Salt-Water Moon, Unity 1918). Joining the cast onstage is saxophonist Daniel Jamieson. The design
team are recent graduates from Ryerson University: Akiva Romer-Segal (Set), Victoria Shillington (Costume Design), and Kristina McNamee (Lighting Design).
Formed in 1994 in Montreal, Mea Culpa Productions has been successfully producing works that incorporate two or more
means of artistic expression (i.e.: dance, music, spoken word, theatre...) and are best known for their delirious cabarets.
Since relocating to Toronto in 2000, Mea Culpa has produced two successful productions: The Darling Family, which utilized
the text of Linda Griffiths and incorporated the use of a videographer and live musician, as well as Uninvited (SummerWorks).
“Bracingly smart...A thoughtful and many layered exploration of the relationship between a short story specialist
in the autumn of her career and an anxious, bright, young thing ready to storm the book world barricades.
Like the best fiction, in drama or prose, Margulies’ "Collected Stories" captures much of the nagging mysteriousness,
the intriguing incompleteness of life.”
-Variety
“As usual, Margulies holds the rich ore of his material up to the light so that it sends beams in every direction.
Changing styles in feminist thought, the tangled connections between creativity and ideology, the writer’s odd place in our
money-centered world, the way we turn our friends into surrogate families--while always fluid and lively, the play is
thick with ideas, like a stockpot of good stew.”
-The Village Voice
“A provocative new play. As always, Margulies is literate, intellectually stimulating and able to create characters of
both dramatic and human interest. His ideas and language hold our attention and earn our respect.”
-New York Magazine
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