⚜ History ⚜
Over the course of the past ten years, in addition to its own work, Infinithéâtre has made a concerted effort to help younger and smaller companies and writers develop their projects and stage their productions.
Notable successes include: Downward Facing Dog’s Sea Peach by Catherine Kidd and Jack Beetz(November 2002); Pumpkin Theatre’s An Act of God (2003) and The Three Apollos (2005) by Joel Fishbane, Nicolas Billon’s first two plays The Elephant Song (2003) and The Measure of Love (2004); Conne Carne from Le théâtre qui monstre énormement and La P’tite Délégation du Cerveau Droit’s La Dernière Mise, Drame Économique by Sébastien-Dominic Bernier (2004)
Infinithéâtre also continues to build up an inventory of technical equipment, which is made available to other independent Montréal theatre companies at virtually no cost.
Notable successes include: Downward Facing Dog’s Sea Peach by Catherine Kidd and Jack Beetz(November 2002); Pumpkin Theatre’s An Act of God (2003) and The Three Apollos (2005) by Joel Fishbane, Nicolas Billon’s first two plays The Elephant Song (2003) and The Measure of Love (2004); Conne Carne from Le théâtre qui monstre énormement and La P’tite Délégation du Cerveau Droit’s La Dernière Mise, Drame Économique by Sébastien-Dominic Bernier (2004)
Infinithéâtre also continues to build up an inventory of technical equipment, which is made available to other independent Montréal theatre companies at virtually no cost.
2010-2011
David Fennario’s new play Bolsheviki is premiered and then plays in Stratford, Ontario for a one week run to huge acclaim. David Sherman’s play Joe Louis: An American Romance reaches a record number of student attendees.
2009-10
All three plays from last year’s Pipeline series are produced as the 2009-10 Season. A remarkable season of plays all developed by Infinithéâtre.
2008/09
The world première of Carolyn Guillet’s Plucked, Hammered and Strung; John and Béatrice a first production in English in Québec of one of Carole Fréchette’s plays; and the world première of Bruce M. Smith’s, Blessed Are They produced at the St. James United Church. Our production of Blessed laterwins the MECCA for best production of the season. We also inaugurate our Write-On-Q! playwriting competition and the winner, Arthur Holden’s Father Land, as well as the two runners-up, David Sherman’s The Daily Miracle and Amy Lee Lavoie’s Rabbit, Rabbit are all given public readings as the 2008 Pipeline series.
2007/08
Daniel Danis’ That Woman, Jason Maghanoy’s GAS and Trevor Ferguson’s Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? are offered as a mini season of plays. The theatre inaugurates a flexible “Six Pack” ticket-purchasing concept. It also successfully begins “Action Infini” an educational initiative targeting groups of high school, CEGEP and university students. Over 1000 students see our production of GAS.
April 2007
Infinithéâtre’s production of Yann Martel’s The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios is the only English theatre production from Québec featured at the National Arts Centre’s prestigious Québec Scene festival. In May of 2008 it toured to the Factory Theatre in Toronto. At the same time we co-produced the world premiere of Trevor Ferguson’s forth play, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? Off-Off-Broadway in New York, to rave reviews.
November 2006
The Pipeline, a series of workshops and public readings of plays Infinithéâtre is developing for future seasons, is inaugurated. The series proves so successful The Pipeline has become an annual fall event since then.
September 2005
Le Pont, a translation of Trevor Ferguson’s play Long, Long, Short, Long is produced successfully at the Place des Arts as part of the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe season. Directed by Guy Sprung, it is essentially a French version of Infinithéâtre’s 2002 production.
September 2005
Carolyn Guillet’s Seventeen (Anonymous) Women is premiered in the Bain St. Michel with attendance from a wide variety of women’s groups.
March 2005
Infinithéâtre produces Guy Sprung’s controversial play Death and Taxes at the Saidye Bronfman Centre and sells a record-breaking number of single tickets for Infinithéâtre. The production is nominated by the French Critics Association as best English production of the season.
October 2004
After extraordinary critical acclaim and strong popular demand, Infinithéâtre is able to extend the run of the adaptation of Booker prize-winning novelist Yann Martel’s short story, The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios, starring the award-winning actor Joe Cobden. The production subsequently wins a triple crown of awards as best English theatre in Québec for the 2004-05 season.
October 2003
Guy Sprung’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara (2003) is co-produced with the Saidye Bronfman Centre as part of their subscription season.
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David Fennario’s new play Bolsheviki is premiered and then plays in Stratford, Ontario for a one week run to huge acclaim. David Sherman’s play Joe Louis: An American Romance reaches a record number of student attendees.
2009-10
All three plays from last year’s Pipeline series are produced as the 2009-10 Season. A remarkable season of plays all developed by Infinithéâtre.
2008/09
The world première of Carolyn Guillet’s Plucked, Hammered and Strung; John and Béatrice a first production in English in Québec of one of Carole Fréchette’s plays; and the world première of Bruce M. Smith’s, Blessed Are They produced at the St. James United Church. Our production of Blessed laterwins the MECCA for best production of the season. We also inaugurate our Write-On-Q! playwriting competition and the winner, Arthur Holden’s Father Land, as well as the two runners-up, David Sherman’s The Daily Miracle and Amy Lee Lavoie’s Rabbit, Rabbit are all given public readings as the 2008 Pipeline series.
2007/08
Daniel Danis’ That Woman, Jason Maghanoy’s GAS and Trevor Ferguson’s Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? are offered as a mini season of plays. The theatre inaugurates a flexible “Six Pack” ticket-purchasing concept. It also successfully begins “Action Infini” an educational initiative targeting groups of high school, CEGEP and university students. Over 1000 students see our production of GAS.
April 2007
Infinithéâtre’s production of Yann Martel’s The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios is the only English theatre production from Québec featured at the National Arts Centre’s prestigious Québec Scene festival. In May of 2008 it toured to the Factory Theatre in Toronto. At the same time we co-produced the world premiere of Trevor Ferguson’s forth play, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? Off-Off-Broadway in New York, to rave reviews.
November 2006
The Pipeline, a series of workshops and public readings of plays Infinithéâtre is developing for future seasons, is inaugurated. The series proves so successful The Pipeline has become an annual fall event since then.
September 2005
Le Pont, a translation of Trevor Ferguson’s play Long, Long, Short, Long is produced successfully at the Place des Arts as part of the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe season. Directed by Guy Sprung, it is essentially a French version of Infinithéâtre’s 2002 production.
September 2005
Carolyn Guillet’s Seventeen (Anonymous) Women is premiered in the Bain St. Michel with attendance from a wide variety of women’s groups.
March 2005
Infinithéâtre produces Guy Sprung’s controversial play Death and Taxes at the Saidye Bronfman Centre and sells a record-breaking number of single tickets for Infinithéâtre. The production is nominated by the French Critics Association as best English production of the season.
October 2004
After extraordinary critical acclaim and strong popular demand, Infinithéâtre is able to extend the run of the adaptation of Booker prize-winning novelist Yann Martel’s short story, The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios, starring the award-winning actor Joe Cobden. The production subsequently wins a triple crown of awards as best English theatre in Québec for the 2004-05 season.
October 2003
Guy Sprung’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara (2003) is co-produced with the Saidye Bronfman Centre as part of their subscription season.
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