By two-time Governor General Award winning playwright Timothy Findley
Directed by Mike Payette and Liz Valdez
Cast Lucinda Davis, Howard Rosentstein, Lucas Chartier-Dessert, Jo Joffre, Irene Osprey, Olivier Perras, David Sklar, Aris Tyros
and Leni Parker as Elizabeth and Brett Watson as Ned
In the small hours of the night before Ash Wednesday, 1601, William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men receive an unexpected visitor to their humble lodgings. Unable to rest, the Queen herself has come to keep vigil on the eve of the execution of her former lover, the Earl of Essex. Her arrival provokes the rapier-sharp wit and keen insight of Ned Lowenscroft, the company's brilliant performer of women's roles, and sparks the imagination of the Bard. In the course of the long night and their often turbulent exchanges, the actor, the queen, and the playwright must confront the roles they have played and the lives they have lived, wresting with questions of identity, sexuality, and love, all the while asking: what makes a man a man, and a woman a woman?
Set in a timeless past with deep resonances for modern audiences, Elizabeth Rex is an imaginative 'tour de force'.
Tableau D'Hôte Theatre is an award-winning independent company based in Montreal. In its seven seasons of being "Montreal's home for Canadian theatre", TDHT is the winner of multiple awards and has worked with some of Montreal's finest and innovative artists.
Previous Tableau D'Hôte Theatre productions in the Segal Studio include the box-office record-breaking premiere Humans (2011) by Daniel MacIvor, acclaimed Montreal premiere A Line in the Sand (2010) by Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef, and the World premiere of Haunted House (2009) by Endre Farkas.
Set and Costume Design: Eo Sharp
Sound Design: Rob Denton
Props Design: Noémi Poulin
Design Assistant: Alex Smith
Billet: 18$
Production Tableau d'Hôte Theatre
