LITTLE DEATH

Theatre Centre BMO Incubator 1115 Queen St. West, Toronto

April 18 May 3 Preview April 17

Tuesday-Sunday @ 9pm, additional matinees April 19, May 2 & 3 @ 3pm, and April 25 @ 4pm running time: 80-90 minutes

Tickets from $15 via tickets.ticketwise.ca/event/LittleDeath or at 416-538-0988

NOTE: Our venue seats only 50 people per performance, so don't wait too long to buy your tickets! Lowest ticket prices during the first week of performances.

Alex may or may not be dying. Confronted with his mortality, he searches for sex and connection in hotel bars with his wife Brits conflicted blessing.

LITTLE DEATH, the lyrical and spare new play by CBC Fiction Prize winner and Dora Award-nominated playwright Daniel Karasik, asks fundamental questions about marriage, fidelity, and the intimate needs of men and women. The production runs April 17 - May 3 at the Theatre Centre BMO Incubator.

LITTLE DEATH premieres as part of The RISER Project, a collaborative producing model presented by Why Not Theatre with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and Canadian Heritage. This production is made possible by lead supporting partner Koffler Centre of the Arts.

The production is directed by Zachary Florence Shaw Festival, SummerWorks 2014s The Container and features an all-star Canadian cast, including:

Shauna Black

five seasons at the Shaw Festival; Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Dream in High Park/Canadian Stage;

Sarah Dodd

seven seasons at the Stratford Festival; The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Tarragon Theatre;

Kate Hennig

Billy Elliot on Broadway; series regular on TMN's Bomb Girls; playwright of The Last Wife at the Stratford Festival this season;

Christopher Stanton

Possible Worlds, Talk Is Free Theatre/BeMeTheatre Munich; Assassins, TIFT/Birdland/Manitoba Theatre Centre;

Nicole Underhay

seven seasons at the Shaw Festival; The Shipping News, Miramax Pictures; The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Tarragon Theatre;

and talented newcomer Elizabeth Tanner

Nightwood Theatre's Young Innovators Lab; The Seagull, Upstart Theatre; Moscow Art Theatre School.

Lighting design is by Dora Award winner Andre du Toit Outstanding Lighting Design, The Double, Bad New Days.

Set & costume design are by Dora Award nominee Jenna McCutchen Oregano, Theatre Rhea.

Sound design is by Dora Award winner Lyon Smith Venus in Fur, Canadian Stage.

Choreography is by Dora Award winner Monica Dottor Outstanding Choreography nom., The Penelopiad, Nightwood Theatre.

The stage manager is Tamara Vuckovic The Biographer, Tango Co..

The producer is Katie Leamen.

A graduate of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Programme in London, UK, Daniel Karasik is a recent winner of the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award and the CBC Literary Award for Fiction. His plays have been produced across Canada, in the United States, and frequently in translation in Germany; his most recent Toronto production, The Biographer, garnered a Dora Award nomination for Outstanding New Play. He holds a commission from the Stratford Festival and will be playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre as of the 15/16 theatre season.