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WEDNESDAY,
June 12th, 2002
NECESSARY
ANGEL THEATRE COMPANY TO SEEK
NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Toronto, June 12, 2002 -- Necessary Angel Theatre Company
congratulates its founding director, Richard Rose, on his
appointment as the Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre and
announces that a new artistic director for Necessary Angel
will be in place by year's end.“In Richard, Tarragon
has inherited one of the country’s most creative and
accomplished theatre directors,” said Lynne Patterson,
President of Necessary Angel's Board of Directors. “While
we are reluctant to see Richard go, we couldn’t be more
thrilled for him.”
Rose founded
Necessary Angel Theatre Company in 1978. The Company works
with some of Canada's finest writers, actors and designers,
in the production of bold, risk-taking Canadian plays. Rose
will continue as Associate Artistic Director through the upcoming
2002/2003 season, directing the Company’s productions
of Kathleen Oliver’s Swollen Tongues (Factory Theatre,
October 23rd to November 10th) and Michael Lewis MacLennan’s
Last Romantics (Canadian Stage, Berkeley Street Theatre, February
27th to March 22nd, 2003).
The search
for a new artistic director, to lead the company into its
25th anniversary season in 2003/2004, will begin immediately.
"Necessary
Angel welcomes this opportunity to launch its next twenty-five
years as an innovative, provocative force in Canadian theatre,"
said Patterson. "The company has a strong organizational
base, good financial health, and a devoted core of corporate
and foundation supporters and individual friends."
"Necessary
Angel occupies a unique and necessary place in Canadian theatre
ecology," said Richard Rose. "Over the past twenty-five
years, we have created a body of work that has earned accolades
across Canada and we continue to see the plays we’ve
created travel the world. No theatre company in the country
of our size and duration has been this successful."
Necessary
Angel's award-winning productions include John Krizanc’s
Tamara, Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter,
an adaptation of Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the
Voyage, Jason Sherman’s 3 in the Back, 2 in the Head
and It’s All True, David Young’s Glenn and Inexpressible
Island and, most recently, Colleen Murphy’s The Piper.
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