HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT PIGNON?

After Le dîner de cons (The Dinner Gamer) and L’Emmerdeur, Francis Veber’s acclaimed character François Pignon returns to the TfT stage — and this time, he’s coming out of the closet!

Pignon, mild-mannered accountant for a condom factory, ignored by those around him, finds out he’s about to be sacked. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, this last blow of fate destroys him; all he can do now is throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next door neighbor who concocts a scheme: pretend to be gay so he can keep his job. Pignon will then benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet he was never in.

“ A bonbon spiked with mirth and malice. Writer-director Francis Veber, following The Dinner Game, offers another delicious treat.”

Peter Travers – Rolling Stone

Schedules: May 11 to 13 at 8 PM; May 14 at 3:30 PM and 8 PM; May 15 at 2:30 PM; May 18 and 19 at 8 PM; May 25 and 27 at 8 PM; May 28 at 3:30 PM AND 8 PM; May 29 PM at 2:30 PM; May 26 at 7 PM (Fundraising Gala & Show)

Performance in French. English surtitles on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday

Tickets: $ 30 - $ 49 (Box office 416-534-6604)

Special discounts: Pay-What-You-Can Wednesdays and $20 Rush tickets Saturday evenings (in both cases: purchase at the door, 1 hour prior to performance, cash only).