Next Stage
Katie Swift and Gordon Miller in TNB's A Doll's House. Photo Andre Reinders.
For the 2011-2012 season, Theatre New Brunswick is pleased to announce the official launch of TNB Next Stage, a studio branch that expands our professional season and offers our patrons more diversity of great theatre. From classics to newer acclaimed works, TNB Next Stage will delve deep in an intimate surrounding, bringing TNB’s high quality production value to a smaller, studio venue. This is the fourth branch of the company, joining TNB Main Stage, TNB Young Company, and TNB Theatre School.
Theatre New Brunswick is pleased to announce that TNB Next Stage performances in 2011-2012 will take place at St. Thomas University’s state-of-the-art Black Box Theatre. St. Thomas University has long been a supporter of Theatre New Brunswick and the two institutions are thrilled with the artistic and educational opportunities this presents.
TNB Next Stage 2011-2012 Season
A MODERN DRAMA
A Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen, a new adaptation by Duncan McIntosh, co-produced with The Montgomery Theatre
September 14-18, 2011 at The Black Box Theatre, St. Thomas University
TNB begins the fall with the launch of its TNB Next Stage studio productions–our first modern classic in nearly two decades. Nora loves her husband above all else. But when she risks her reputation in order to save his, she begins to question her devotion and finds herself fighting for her own life.
A CONTROVERSIAL HOMEGROWN DRAMA
The Dollar Woman
35th Anniversary production by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
February 29-March 4, 2012 at The Black Box Theatre, St. Thomas University
The most controversial of Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning’s plays was also the first one TNB ever premiered about New Brunswick: The Dollar Woman (1977). Set in the Sussex area in the 1880’s, The Dollar Woman introduces us to the world of pauper auctions, a system whereby each year the community’s poor were auctioned or “rented” to the highest bidder. It was only a little over a century ago that a former newspaper editor from Sussex helped bring an end to these auctions that saw the final woman sold for a dollar.
