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Theatre Kingston is proud to announce that Brett Christopher has taken a firm hold of the management of the company as General Manager. Returning to Kingston after several years in Toronto, Brett brings years of experience and great insight. Artistic Director Kim Renders comes to Theatre Kingston with almost thirty years of experience as a practicing theatre artist in Canada. In keeping with its stellar history, the company is committed to maintaining the standard of artistic excellence Theatre Kingston audiences have come to expect by producing challenging and innovative theatre.

November 12 - 22 at the Baby Grand Theatre.

Conceived by Kim Renders and directed by Kathryn MacKay, the garbage and the flowers is an extraordinary stage presentation of thoughts, images, words, sounds, and poetry that takes the audience on a sensual tour of the Limestone City. By using movement, live sound, and video/slide projections, nine performers will recreate overhead conversations, bathroom wall scribblings, and discarded memos to unearth the beauty that exists in the most unlikely of places.
Don't miss the world premiere of this amazing new work.

February 4 - 14, 2009 at the Baby Grand Theatre

**** (out of 5)
The first great production of 2009!
Kingston Whig Standard

I Am My Own Wife tells of author Doug Wright's fascination with the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite caught up in the great European dramas of the 20th century. Unlike many contemporaries, von Mahlsdorf survived the Nazi regime and its replacement in East Germany, the Soviet-dominated Communist dictatorship. This remarkable solo performance was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and won both the Best Play and Best Actor Tony in the same year. Critics have hailed it as: " a story that is both moving and intellectually absorbing, and a performance that is a true tour-de -force" .

Featuring Theatre Kingston General Manager, Brett Christopher* in a performance lauded by critics and audiences alike, and with a creative team destined to make this a production not to be missed.

Read the Review

View Production Photos

All photos by Tim Fort

Cast & Crew:

Playwright: Doug Wright
Director: Brendan Healy
Performer: Brett Christopher*
Set/Costume Designer: James Lavoie
Lighting Designer: Tim Fort
Sound Designer: Richard Feren
Production Manager: Dan Rider
Stage Manager: Kathryn MacKay*

*Appears with the permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Theatre Kingston would like to thank CFRC for their support.

"It does tell a terrific story based on a real person, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (née Lothar Berfelde), a soft-spoken but tenaciously gender-bending biological male who died in 2002 at 74. Her lifelong obsession - Mahlsdorf preferred to be thought of as female -was the preservation of furniture, especially pieces from the 1890's, and other household relics like Victrolas and gramophones.

Her devotion to her astonishing collection -- she turned her home into a museum -- gave focus and motivation to a life whose grandest achievement was that it proceeded to its natural end. In fact, ''I Am My Own Wife'' is largely about Charlotte's enduring the cruel repressions of the Nazis and the Communists, and her harrowing tales of survival through the eras of the Gestapo and the Stasi, the East German secret police, are nothing short of breathtaking." (New York Times)

April 29 - May 10, 2009 at the Baby Grand Theatre
of Michelangelo

...a theatrical exploration of aging, a eulogy to youth and a diatribe against one’s own mortality.

T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is the literal and inspirational starting point for Talking Of Michelangelo. The piece was presented as a workshop in the 2008 season, and audience members were invited to be part of the development of this play. During dynamic talk back sessions facilitated by Kim Renders after each performance, the cast, audience members and invited guests, each of whom brought with them a different perspective on the material, shared thoughts and reactions to the material. These exchanges became 'grist for the mill' and have been incorporated in different ways into the finished piece.

Well known Kingston actor Judy Cooke plays the central character of Pru, a woman at the end of her life, grappling with her fear of death, questioning her faith in God and desperately trying to come to terms with her past, before moving on.

June 10 - 20 2009.
Baby Grand Studio Theatre
Grand Theatre, Kingston

A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Likewise, we might say; the way to understand a community is by identifying its hunger.

Theatre Kingston will be working with a handful of Kingston’s finest writers , asking them to hit the streets of our community seek out the answer to the question “What is your hunger?” Out of this investigation, these writers will be commissioned to create a short performance piece based on their findings.

This inclusive performance is intended to follow in the footsteps of I SAID I - our artist/community project which played to full houses at the Grand this past June - in that it will once again bring a diverse collection of talented Kingston artists together with community members to create a theatre spectacle reflecting the various interpretations of “Hunger” as it exists in Kingston.