TFS Production of ‘Those Who Are Lost’ Brings Pinter’s Provocative Plays to Papermill Theatre
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Toronto Film School students will tackle a play inspired by the works of Nobel Prize-winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter this month when their production of Those Who Are Lost hits the stage at the Papermill Theatre.
Conceived and directed by Aaron Willis, the 75-minute play will see a company of fifth term Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre students bring to life four short plays that Pinter wrote from the late 1980s to the early 2000s – after he’d skyrocketed to fame on the strength of a series of major works including The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal.
“These later plays demonstrate Pinter’s growing conviction that, as a writer, he had dual responsibilities, both as a private citizen and a public figure, with a moral imperative to explore issues of conscience in his work,” Willis explains.
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The plays, Willis notes, grew out of a profound anger and disgust with a political system that supported and condoned events like the oppression of the Kurds in Turkey, the rise to power of dictators like Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and the bombastic, jingoistic militarism of the two Gulf Wars.”
“Pinter explores how the seductive pull authoritarianism and fascism has on us, and to what extent people embrace, resist, or submit to these forces when they are exerted upon society,” he adds.
“These four plays together, along with some of Pinter’s poetry, present an alternate world where a new and terrifying regime has gradually taken over a society much like our own.”
Those Who Are Lost, which is stage managed by Denanh Tran, will take to the stage at the Papermill Theatre for a three-performance run on September 19, 20 and 21 as follows:
- Thursday, September 19 at 7 p.m.
- Friday, September 20 at 9 p.m.
- Saturday, September 21 at 5 p.m.
The Papermill Theatre is located at Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Rd. Tickets are free and available at the door.
The Creative Team Behind Those Who Are Lost:
Jordie Foumbue Ngassa as Young Woman / Terry
Barkai Ben Yakar as Elderly Woman / Melissa
Tanna Corbeil as Sergeant / Jimmy
Dhaarna Anand as Officer / Pamela
Camryn Anderson as Guard / Charlotte
Jesse Mifsud as Prisoner / Harlow
Jake Stewart as Blindfolded Man / Fred
Jaikub Bidewell as Second Guard / Sam / Journalist 1
Ange Tamdem as Des / Emily
Clea Elfy Anaya as Lionel / Suki
Hanno Peyper as Gavin / Minister
Boe Kwon as Dusty
Denisse Ponce as Liz / Journalist 2
Allen ValloBajar as Douglas
Aidan Vadala as Waiter
Aaron Willis – Director
Denanh Tran – Stage Manager
