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October 29th, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, Disgraced

Taking on Everest – Shawn Lall on playing Amir in ‘Disgraced’

Interview by Aliyah Mohamed

Entering its final week in the Martha Cohen Theatre this month is the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced, a “taut, engrossing and powerful” dinner party debate about race, privilege, politics and identity.

The second play of the 2019-20 season for Alberta Theatre Projects follows Amir Kapoor (Shawn Lall), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer living on the Upper East side of Manhattan. He has also turned his back on his Muslim heritage.

Amir Kapoor is an emotional, challenging role, with a boiling anger that explodes on stage. Luckily, actor Shawn Lall was more than up for the task.

October 23rd, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, Disgraced

Five questions with Hamed Dar of ‘Disgraced’

By Jamie Zachary

New to the Martha Cohen Theatre this month is the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced, a “taut, engrossing and powerful” dinner party debate about race, privilege, politics and identity.

The second play of the 2019-20 season for Alberta Theatre Projects follows Amir Kapoor (Shawn Lall), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer living on the Upper East side of Manhattan. He has also turned his back on his Muslim heritage.

October 21st, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, Disgraced

An Interview with Director Nigel Shawn Williams

An immediate focus on identity and racial politics has skyrocketed Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced to becoming one of the most produced plays in North America. Cultures clash during an ill-fated dinner party, during which the character of Amir sees his fear, resentment and hostility to his Muslim upbringing come spilling out.

Writer Aliyah Mohamed had the chance to explore the themes of the play deeper during an interview with Disgraced director Nigel Shawn Williams.

October 21st, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, Disgraced

Setting the Scene – Design Elements of Disgraced

By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

Alberta Theatre Projects’ new production of Ayad Akhtar’s 2013 play Disgraced is a thought-provoking and bitingly funny study of modern-day characters, with the entire show taking place within an apartment on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side, primarily over the course of an emotionally-charged dinner party.

September 23rd, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, The Wedding Party

Planning Your Outfit for The Wedding Party

By Tanisha Cherry

Regardless of how much planning goes in, weddings are the most unpredictable occasion one can attend!

The calling off of the wedding, a fight, or party crashers can all occur on someone’s big day. And because of FOMO, you just can’t turn down an invitation! So, if you like an entertaining evening of funny moments and drama, then you have to see Alberta Theatre Projects’ The Wedding Party.

The cabaret-style seated show encourages attendees to dress up as wedding guests.

Below are my suggestions on what to wear as a family member of either the bride or groom, an outrageous wedding guest or a regular attendee.

September 10th, 2019 | 2019-20 Season, The Wedding Party

All You Need to Know About ATP’s The Wedding Party

By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

We’ve all been at weddings where high drama has ensued, thanks to the antics of colourful guests and family members. When two families that barely know each other are thrown together for an emotionally charged (and perhaps alcohol-fueled) shindig, the results can feel positively theatre-worthy.

August 30th, 2019 | 2019-20 Season

Alberta Theatre Projects celebrates a season of firsts

Alberta Theatre Projects celebrates a season of firsts

2019-20 lineup features directorial debuts, world premieres and more

From Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas to classic children’s fantasies, Alberta Theatre Projects is bringing it all to the table for its 2019-20 season of world-class contemporary theatre.

August 9th, 2018 | ATP News

MEDIA STATEMENT: Changes to ATP’s 2018-19 Season

Thank you for your honest feedback regarding changes to our 2018-19 Season.
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June 15th, 2018 | 2018/19 Season, ATP News

Recognising women’s voices on the stage: The 2018 50/50 Applause Awards

This week Alberta Theatre Projects was recognized as one of 62 recipients of the 2018 International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) 50/50 Applause Award honouring theatres around the world that produce plays written in equal measure by women and men!
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June 7th, 2018 | 2018/19 Season

The Virgin Trial, an eagerly awaited sequel

The eagerly anticipated sequel to The Last Wife opens our 2018/19 season, and it’s proven to be even better than its predecessor. In The Virgin Trial, “Kate Hennig continues her Tudor Queens Trilogy by cleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women.”