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“They united in isolation last week from their homes, using video-conferencing technology to connect and YouTube to reach their audience for a live-streamed script reading.” - Ashley Martin, Regina Leader-Post (Read full review here)

“As creators and theatre-makers, we are innovators, and I think there's a lot of innovation happening right now. It just felt so crushing that they wouldn’t get the opportunity to do that show…I felt I needed to do something to try to make sure they got some form of closure for the project” - Julie Peterson, CBC News (Read full interview here)

The Circle by Geoffrey Simon Brown

Globe Theatre | Sandbox Series | April 2020

It’s a high school garage party: there’s the genius, the drug dealer, the runaway, the mess, the kid with ADHD, and the good kid. Everyone’s a bit too trashed and a bit uncomfortable in their own skin but it’s better than being alone on a Friday night in Suburbia. How far will things stretch without breaking? The Circle is an explosive SOS from an orphaned generation desperately searching for a place to belong. The Circle was commissioned, developed and first produced in 2014 by the National Theatre School of Canada, and received its first professional production in the fall of 2015 at Alberta Theatre Projects. The Circle is produced by permission of the Author and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.mqlit.ca

*Production was cancelled due to COVID-19. A staged reading was performed live on April 16, 2020 over Zoom. Watch the recording here.

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Ily: Lucas Babcock
Danielle: Lyndsey Desjarlais
Amanda: Katie Gheraism
Kit: Allison MacMurray
Mutt: Aren Okemaysim
Will: Eleanor Suggit

Director: Andrew Ritchie
Set, Costume, & Prop Designer: Damien Webb
Lighting Designer: Kennedy Sembaliuk
Stage Manager: Tori Yuzik
Fight Director: Ryland Alexander