Red One Theatre Collective

HUMAN FURNITURE
by Claire Burns

2014

☆WORLD PREMIERE☆

"It’s a life of kinky sexual preferences and activities. Throw a few uninvited guests into the mix and you have yourself a farce of epic proportions."
-- Logan

THE SKRIKER
by Caryl Churchill

2014

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I consider this ambitious, stimulating production to be first-class indie theatre.”
-- Jon Kaplan, NOW MAGAZINE (2014)








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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S STAR WARS
by Ian Doescher

2014













..and many more!!

GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER
by Sam Shepard

2013

"These people are tremendous fun to watch, and clearly enjoy playing with and off each other. And, as far as I can tell, that’s what happened: the collaboration was so fruitful and fun that these sentiments began to leak back into the show."
-- Mike Anderson, MOONEY ON THEATRE (2013)

WAIT UNTIL DARK
by Fredrick Knott

2013

☆OPENING SHOW ☆

“ A thrilling production of the high calibre one would expect from the Red One Theatre Collective….Every roller coaster begins with an ascent twice as long as the plummet to the finish line. From the onset of Act Two, we were leaning forward in our chairs, hanging off every word.”
-- Ryan Kerr, MOONEY ON THEATRE (2013)


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Kelly Read

EIGENGRAU
by Penelope Skinner

2012

"☆☆☆☆
Director David Tompa has assembled a 6 cast who all give sterling performances...Bigger, better-known theatre companies get all the attention, but we have to be thankful that we have companies like Red One to present the unorthodox, form-breaking works that the others too easily ignore."
-- Christother Hollie, STAGE DOOR (2012)






Jeff Irving

FOOL 4 LOVE
by Sam Shepard

2011

"The rhythm and dynamic between Christo’s Martin and Benjamin Blais’ Eddie is darkly filled with an intensity that immediately captivates....Flatman, with an impeccable South-western American accent, is brilliantly gruff and mostly aloof, with a clear restless quality...Blais’ Eddie is darkly hilarious and filled with an intensity that immediately captivates...Katie Boland’s May also becomes richer and fiercer as the story advances. Boland’s facial expressions, never forced but with the ability to wordlessly capture the wounded, vulnerability of her character, are the trademark of her poignant performance...Fool For Love is a riveting example of how dangerously thrilling the theatre can be."
-- Amanda Campbell, TWISITHEATREBLOG.COM (2011)






Barry Flatman

HOWIE THE ROOKIE
by Mark O'ROWE

2010

"The setting for their new production, the Irish crime drama, Howie the Rookie is so secretive that the company's asking the audience to meet at College and Grace, and from there they'll be escorted to a nearby intimate venue that seats only 20 people. "
-- BlogTO (2010)

"One Theatre Collective describes their productions more as artistic “happenings” than as theatre. The Director of this production, David Ferry is credited not as director, but as curator of this lovely, constructed hour of Irish joking, pissin’, and tough life. Not to be missed.
-- Ryan Kerr, MOONEY ON THEATRE (2010)

MOJO (remount)
by Jez Butterworth

2010

☆DORA MAVOR MOORE NOMINATION☆
Outstanding Performance - Cyrus Faird

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Most of the play is verbal fisticuffs, rapid-fire shouting matches that pair strings of expletives with dark humour, very convincingly rendered by the strong ensemble. The most powerful moments, though, come from the tense, electrified silences expertly held by Cyrus Faird as Baby, the petulant, psychotic, sword-wielding son of the deceased club owner...Also great is the scheming, dialect-heavy banter between mid-level club employees Potts (Benjamin Blais) and Sweets (Joe Dinicol)...Director Mac Fyfe cranks the often horrifying macho intensity – ultimately Butterworth’s subject – full-blast, which results in some seriously awesome WTF moments."
-- Jordan Bimm, NOW MAGAZINE (2010)






Cyrus Faird

Alex Furber

SEXUAL PEVERSITY IN CHICAGO
by David Mamet

2010

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The show’s electric centre is Danny’s live-wire co-worker, Bernie (Joe Dinicol)...Dinicol and Blais anchor the production with their characters’ bizarre, hyper-masculine dynamic...While the result is deeply disturbing on one level, it’s also incredibly funny...Director David Tompa keeps the action quick but also effectively prolongs a couple of Mamet’s filmic blackouts to allow certain lines to resonate...The converted industrial site – accessible only by alleyway – accentuates the workaday grit of the script’s rundown locales, and a specially constructed multi-level set makes good use of the lofty vertical space."
-- Jordan Bimm, NOW MAGAZINE (2010)

THE ZOO STORY
by Edward Albee

2009

"So Red One Theatre decided to forego actually renting theatre space and carting around a bench prop, and is staging it on park benches across the city throughout September...And it works"
-- Crystal Wood, MOONEY ON THEATRE (2009)

TAPE
by Stephen Belber

2009

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A solid psychological mystery given a strong production by an emerging group of artists...Blais, onstage mulling over Vince's situation before the audience sits down, grasps his restlessness, anger, and frustration, and delivers his lines with a manic comic edge.”
-- Glenn Sumi, NOW MAGAZINE (2009)