Tom at the Farm (2015)
Produced by
Playwright: Michel Marc Bouchard
Director: Eda Holmes
Translator: Linda Gaboriau
Venue
The Alexander Street Chamber Theatre
Run
April 11th, 2015 – May 10th, 2015
Awards & Nominations
2015 Dora Award Winner (General Theatre Division) – Outstanding Direction (Eda Holmes)
2015 Dora Award Nominee (General Theatre Division) – Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performance – Male (Jeff Irving), Outstanding Performance – Male (Jeff Lillico), Outstanding Performance – Female (Rosemary Dunsmore), Outstanding Scenic Design (Camellia Koo), Outstanding Lighting Design (Rebecca Picherack), Outstanding Sound Design/Composition (John Gzowski)
2015 Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winner – Best New Canadian Play (Michael Marc Bouchard)
Synopsis
When Tom travels to the country for his lover’s funeral, he is seduced into a family’s savage game of desire, secrets, and fantasy. Unable to reveal his true relationship with the deceased Tom is caught between comforting his lover’s distraught mother and appeasing his violent brother. In their grief and frustration, Tom discovers an elaborately woven fantasy life created to cope with the darkness of their family history. As he is drawn deeper into their dysfunctional torment, the lines between truth and fiction become indistinguishable and lust and brutality merge. (buddiesinbadtimes.com)
Cast
| Rosemary Dunsmore | Agathe |
| Christine Horne | Sara |
| Jeff Irving | Francis |
| Jeff Lillico | Tom |
Creative Team
| Michel Marc Bouchard | Playwright |
| Eda Holmes | Director |
| Linda Gaboriau | Translator |
| Camellia Koo | Set Designer |
| Michael Gianfrancesco | Costume Designer |
| Rebecca Picherack | Lighting Designer |
| John Gzowski | Sound Designer |
| April Nicolle | Fight Director |
| Justen Bennett | Assistant Director |
Production
| Kate Porter | Stage Manager |
| Charissa Wilcox | Production Manager |
| Jenny So | Props |
| Tom Comet | Rigging |
| Diana Lopez Soto | Scenic Artist |
| Georgia Priestley-Brown | Apprentice Stage Manager |
| Ming Wong | Costume Assistant |
| Matt Armour | Crew |
| Paula Burrows | Crew |
| Luke Dobson | Crew |
| Kyle Fair | Crew |
| Jazz Kamal | Crew |
| Shane MacKinnon | Crew |
| Eric Read | Crew |
| Bill Stahl | Crew |
| Graeme Scott | Crew |
| Will Sutton | Crew |
Staff
| Suzie Balogh | Chamber Technician |
| Charissa Wilcox | Head of Production |
| Adrien Whan | Technical Director |
