My first attempt to find a venue began with the Al Green Theatre at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (JCC). I had produced Lost Daughter there during the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival and had a wonderful experience. Director Jocelyn Wickett and I already knew that we wanted to produce Harriet’s House during the Toronto Pride Festival and because the play featured a Jewish same-sex family, we thought that the Al Green Theatre would be an ideal theatre to approach. Although the cultural programmers at the JCC liked the play and wanted to discuss a partnership with us, the Al Green Theatre was not affordable for a small independent theatre company like Gailey Road. We had to look somewhere else.
I work at the University of Toronto as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and decided to talk to Louise Cowin, the Warden of Hart House. Hart House is the Student Centre for the St. George Campus at the University of Toronto and a place that welcomes U of T faculty, staff and alumni as well as students. Hart House is also the home of Hart House Theatre, which is a focal point for the performing arts at the University of Toronto. Over a thousand students participate each year in its extra-curricular season of drama, dance, music and film.
Louise was pleased to discuss a partnership between Hart House and Gailey Road theatre and I am thrilled to announce that Harriet’s House, will take place at Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto on Thursday June 24, Friday June 25, and Saturday June 26, 2010. I am currently working with the General Manager of the Hart House Theatre, Doug Floyd, on setting up a contract. In my next blog, I will tell you a little bit about Hart House Theatre and its history.
All the best,
Tara
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