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Location: Videofag
Suburban Beast proudly presents the world premiere of All Our Happy Days Are Stupid by internationally celebrated Canadian writer Sheila Heti. All Our Happy Days are Stupid A play by Sheila Heti with songs by Dan Bejar Directed by Jordan Tannahill October 24 – November 3 (no performance October 28), 8pm Videofag 187 Augusta Ave, Toronto ON Featuring: Erin Brubacher, Alexander Carson, Henri Faberge, Nick Hune-Brown, Kayla Lorette, Becky Johnson, Jon McCurley, Michael McManus, Meghan Swaby, Naomi Skwarna, Anne Wessels, Carl Wilson, Lorna Wright. Suburban Beast is producing the long-anticpated world premiere of novelist Sheila Heti’s debut play All Our Happy Days Are Stupid. The show will run from October 24 – November 3 at Videofag, director Jordan Tannahill’s intimate Kensington Market storefront theatre. Featuring songs by acclaimed musician Dan Bejar (Destroyer), Set Designs by Rae Powell, and a cast of Sheila and Jordan’s friends, this uproariously unwieldy new play is an irreverent and gut-punching critique of the pursuit of happiness. The play’s surreal narrative follows The Oddis and the Sings, two families on vacation in Paris, France. But far from the blissful respite they seek, their holidays become their undoing. Heti’s struggle to write this infamously ‘unproduceable’ play over the past ten years is one of the central plot-lines in her internationally heralded novel How Should a Person Be?, which David Haglund of the New York Times called “Funny…odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable…unlike any novel I can think of.” After years of the script being passed over by established theatres, largely on account of it’s unusual form and massive cast, Sheila and Jordan decided to gather together a group of their friends for a reading of it in a friend’s backyard. As Sheila said in a November 2012 Globe and Mail article, at the backyard reading ‘the things that just never worked, somehow they worked.” It is in this spirit of gathering friends together to do the impossible that the piece will have it’s birth at Videofag this fall. Tickets: $25/adults, $20/students and seniors Sunday October 27 is Pay-What-You-Can at the door, one hour before show time. Online: http://allourhappydaysarestupid.eventbrite.ca SOLD OUT Media: For Pictures, Interviews or to attend a performance*, please contact: Renna Reddie, Producer, renna.reddie@gmail.com *Please note that seating is extremely limited and requests for media will receive one complementary ticket. We appreciate your understanding in this matter. For Images of Sheila Heti please download them from her official Google Folder here: http://www.sheilaheti.net/formedia.html
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