THE PLAGUE
After La Peste by Albert Camus
Adapted by Neil Bartlett
CANADIAN PREMIERE
Synopsis
The Plague is Albert Camus's story of living through a time of crisis and fighting back against despair. First published in 1947, the novel was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist "plague" that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus's classic for our own dangerous times. Using just five actors, his frank and gripping new stage version uses Camus's original words to put chaos under the microscope and to find hope in the power of our common humanity.
Performance Dates
(Preview Night)
(Opening Night)
(Matinee)
(Final Performance; Matinee)
Estimated Run Time is 90 minutes, no intermission. Light concessions and merchandise will be sold on site.
Tickets sold through the Small World Music box office. Please contact Small World Music with technical issues, payment issues, or questions about the venue.
Featuring
Hume Baugh (Cottard), Gary Brennan (Grand), Natalia Bushnik (Tarrou), Sean Jacklin (Rambert), Asha Vijayasingham (Dr Rieux)
Creative Team
Directed by: Tom McHale and Alessandro Simari
Stage Manager: Jenna Hsu
Lighting Designer: Elijah Bell
Ticket Tiers & Prices
$25 (Arts Worker / Under 25)
Includes: one general admission ticket.
$35 (Standard Ticket)
Includes: one general admission ticket.
$50 Patron of the Arts Ticket (VIP Bundle)
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$75 Donate a Ticket (VIP Bundle)
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Accessibility
Accessible seating is available. Patrons remaining in walkers/wheelchairs or who require stepless access can be accommodated inside the venue with reserved front row seating. Please contact Outliers Theatre Collective (outlierstheatrecollective@gmail.com) when purchasing your ticket to discuss your access needs and reserve a seat. We endeavour to support your access needs wherever possible.
Small World Centre access guide from AccessTO
Content Notice
Content Notice: Sustained depictions of epidemic illness, death, quarrantine, and collective grief, including discussion of suicide, mass fatalities, medical triage, social breakdown, and the deaths of animals. Staging incorporates the sound of gunshots. The play explores themes of authoritarianism, isolation, separation, fear, xenophobia, and state violence. Please take care while attending.
This is a Canadian Actors Equity Association production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.
THE PLAGUE was originally commissioned and produced by the Arcola Theatre, London and was first performed on April 5, 2017. Presented by special arrangement with special arrangement with The Agency (London) Ltd. - email : info@theagency.co.uk and Gallimard. THE PLAGUE based on La peste by Albert Camus © Gallimard