The Master Plan (2024)
Produced by
Crow’s Theatre and Soulpepper Theatre Company
Playwright: Michael Healey
Director: Chris Abraham
Venue
Run
November 26th, 2024 – January 5th, 2025
Synopsis
“We looked all over the world for the perfect place to bring this vision to life, and we found it here in Toronto.”
A biting satire about the stunning failure to build a smart city in Toronto. Adapted from award-winning writer and The Globe and Mail journalist Josh O’Kane’s best-selling book Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, the play takes us behind closed doors and reveals the corporate drama, epic personalities, and iconic Canadian figures involved in the messy affair between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto.
In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development (just on the other side of Lakeshore Blvd from where Soulpepper sits), Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. But the project quickly started to fall apart from uneasy partnerships, rigid local politics, and an overwhelmingly negative public response.
The Master Plan exposes the hubris of big tech, the feebleness of government, and the dangers of public consultation with sharp wit and insightful commentary. (soulpepper.ca)
Cast
| Christopher Allen | Cam Malagaam and Others |
| Ben Carlson | Will Fleissig and Others |
| Philippa Domville | Meg Davis and Others |
| Tanja Jacobs | Helen Burstyn & Others |
| Michael Healey | Tree & Others |
| Rose Napoli | Kristina Verner and Others |
| Mike Shara | Dan Doctoroff and Others |
Creative Team
| Michael Healey | Playwright |
| Chris Abraham | Director |
| Joshua Quinlan | Set Designer |
| Joshua Quinlan | Prop Designer |
| Josh O’Kane | Author |
| Ming Wong | Costume Designer |
| Kimberly Purtell | Lighting Designer |
| Thomas Ryder Payne | Sound Designer |
| Amelia Scott | Video Designer |
Production
| Jennifer Parr | Stage Manager |
| Delaney Small | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Lisa Nighswander | Head of Properties |
| Kathleen Johnston | Head of Wardrobe |
| Gunes Agduk | Lighting Operator |
| Jason Shindle | Sound Operator |
| Alex Edwards | Dresser |
| Edmond Chan | Video Operator |
Staff
| Jonathan Heppner | Executive Producer |
| Robyn Hoja | Producer |
| Julia Carrano | Associate Producer |
| Jasmine Knox | Senior Production Manager |
| Patricia Vinluan | Production Manager |
| Leslie Hernandez | Technical Director |
| Nicholas Beardsley | Assistant Technical Director |
| Rhett Costin | Assistant Technical Director |
| Andy DeVries | Head Carpenter |
| Paul Boddum | Head Scenic Artist |
