A Fantastic Review from Mooney on Theatre

"World War I was an immense mistake. Missing Journey’s End at The Artisan Factory would be another gigantic mistake. It is an intimate, firsthand glimpse into a soldier’s life during war."

To read the full review CLICK HERE 

Journey's End: In the Green Room

Toronto theatre site In the Green Room sat down with Andrew Petker (Stanhope) & Jesse Nerenberg (Raleigh) to talk about the show.

To read the article CLICK HERE

Journey's End Trailer

Starring Andrew Petker (Captain Stanhope)

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Journey's End Cast & Creative Team

Cast

T Stanhope (Captain) ....................................................... Andrew Petker

Osborne (Lieutenant) ....................................................... Robert Tsonos*

Trotter (2nd Lieutenant) / Colonel ................................... Richard Beaune*

Hibbert (2nd Lieutenant) ................................................. Tayves Fiddis

Raleigh (2nd Lieutenant) ................................................. Jesse Nerenberg*

Hardy (Captain) / Broughton (Lance-Corporal) .............. Jonathan Silver*

Company Sergeant Major / Bert (Private) ....................... Kelly Hoare

Mason (Private) / German Soldier ................................... Joshua Stodart

*Appears Courtesy of Canadian Actors' Equity

Creative/Technical

Director ............................................................................ Edward Hillier

Stage Manager ................................................................. Tamara Vuckovic

Asst. Stage Manager ........................................................ Laura Paduch

Lighting Design ............................................................... CJ Astronomo

Set / Costumes / Props Design ....................................... Chris Penna

Sound Design .................................................................. Kai Masaoka

Technical Director ......................................................... Evan Bonnah-Hawkes

Carpenter ......................................................................... Ben Carson

Wardrobe Mistress ........................................................... Janneke Tenbroek

Fight Coordinator ............................................................. Luke Marty

Crew ................................................................................ Benjamin Kibblewhite

It's Live!

Our indiegogo campaign for Journey's End is up and running. There's a wonderful video that was shot and edited by Ben Rayner from our team of producers. Check it out and donate!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/journey-s-end/x/454731

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

To all of our friends and family out there, we wish you a very happy weekend full of pumpkin pie and turkey (or tofurkey).

We will be back in the rehearsal studio on Tuesday to work off those extra holiday pounds.

Stay tuned for news and updates about our upcoming production of Journey's End - tickets on sale soon!

Best wishes,
The Empty Room

Journey's End Launch Campfire

Join us on Sunday October 6th to launch our upcoming production of Journey's End!

In spirit of R. C. Sherriff's WWI piece the Launch Party will be held in great outdoors.. of Dufferin Grove Park. Equipped with a blazing campfire, tasty-roastables, and other special treats; TER & Friends will be celebrating it's upcoming production with songs, stories, and other fire-inspired performances. 

Check out the facebook event HERE
Or email us at info@empty-room.com for an invite.

Best part about it: it's free! (and there will be marshmallows).

See you around the campfire,

– The Empty Room

Coming this November...

Keep an eye out for performance dates, tickets & special promotions: all to be announced very soon!

– The Empty Room

Ninety-Nine Years Ago Today...

Ninety-nine years ago today, on the 28th of June 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated while touring in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Young Bosnia revolutionary movement, and one of a group of assassins organized by the Serbian underground military society The Black Hand. This was the inciting incident in what became the ferocious European power struggle known as The Great War, and later, The First World War.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg

The First World war ushered in the end of the Imperialist era, shaping the world we see before us today. As the centennial of this great conflict looms ahead, the stage is set for our next project; we will be mounting a play this coming remembrance season that is not only set in the trenches of the Western Front during The Great War, it was written by a soldier who fought there.

Nineteen year old assassin Gavrilo Princip

That is all we are at liberty to say about it for now, but please keep an ear out for a more formal announcement to come soon!

Until next time,

– The Empty Room

World Theatre Day 2013

"Today, actors and theatre companies have difficulties finding public theatres, stages, and spectators..."

Well, with crisis comes opportunity; what better time than now to make all of our voices heard, to make all of our hearts speak loud and true?

"...how far more penetrating to the soul is what the eyes can see and the ears can hear, than the words they read in a book."

(Extracts from Dario Fo's World Theatre Day Message 2013)

Click here to view the full message in English as read by Julian Sands.

Meanwhile, in Canada, here's what's gracing Toronto stages this week:

WorkHouse theatre's brand new play Gwen Powers by the supremely talented Michael Goldlist;
This, by Melissa James Gibson is on at Canadian Stage's Berkeley Street Theatre;
Theatre Smith-Gilmour brings Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to life at the Passe Muraille;
Lauren Yee's Ching Chong Chinaman is FuGen theatre's latest production at the Aki Studio Theatre.

Hope to see you all there, a happy and fortuitous World Theatre Day to you all,

– The Empty Room 

In Like A Lion...

It is a busy time for us here at The Empty Room; lots of planning is under way for our soon-to-be announced project scheduled for November. Want to hear more? Here's a clue: we're teaming up with the Royal Canadian Legion for this one...

Haven't figured it out? Follow us on Twitter ( @TheEmptyRoom ) and keep an eye out for more hints. Guess correctly before the official announcement and there could be a pair of free tickets in it for you!

Meanwhile in Toronto, here's what's whetting our creative whistles in this week:

Michel Nadeau's And Slowly Beauty... (Belfry / NAC)
Bahia Watson & Liz Paul's Pomme is French for Apple (Yonge Centre)
Martin Sherman's Bent (Hart House)
Ashlin Halfnight's Laws of Motion

Do you have a show you're working on in Toronto? Let us know and we'll put up a link.

Until next time, 

The Empty Room.

Rumblings in the darkness...

We have been quiet of late in the realms of social media, scribbling away on our own, immersing ourselves in theatre, music, art, and planning, ever planning for the next series of projects.

What is in store for 2013, you may ask? Well, the Born Free* project has been ticking away in our minds and on our notepads, with the next stage of development itching to be brought back on its feet later this year, plus we have an exciting new project on the cards for November, but that is all we can say of that for the moment...

More insights into the weird & wild workings of The Empty Room's members to come soon, in the meantime, here's what we're looking forward to in Toronto theatres this week:

Half-Pint Theatre's A Night of Shanley
Nightwood Theatre's The Penelopiad
The Quickening Theatre's The De Chardin Project
Obsidian/Atomic 3D/TPM's Shakespeare's Nigga

Cheers,

– The Empty Room