TFS Production of ‘Those Who Are Lost’ Brings Pinter’s Provocative Plays to Papermill Theatre

Those Who Are Lost

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.

Those Who Are Lost
Poster designed by Camryn Anderson

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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 Mills67 Pottery Rd. Tickets are free and available at the door.

 

The Creative Team Behind Those Who Are Lost:

Jordie Foumbue Ngassa

Jordie Foumbue Ngassa as Young Woman / Terry

Barkai Ben Yakar

Barkai Ben Yakar as Elderly Woman / Melissa

Tanna Corbeil

Tanna Corbeil as Sergeant / Jimmy

Dhaarna Anand

Dhaarna Anand as Officer / Pamela

Camryn Anderson

Camryn Anderson as Guard / Charlotte

Jesse Mifsud

Jesse Mifsud as Prisoner / Harlow

Jake Stewart

Jake Stewart as Blindfolded Man / Fred

Jaikub Bidewell

Jaikub Bidewell as Second Guard / Sam / Journalist 1

Ange Tamdem Ange Tamdem as Des / Emily

Clea Elfy Anaya

Clea Elfy Anaya as Lionel / Suki

Hanno Peyper Hanno Peyper as Gavin / Minister

Boe Kwon

Boe Kwon as Dusty

Denisse Ponce

Denisse Ponce as Liz / Journalist 2

Allen ValloBajar

Allen ValloBajar as Douglas

Aidan Vadala

Aidan Vadala as Waiter

Aaron Willis

Aaron Willis – Director

Denanh Tran – Stage Manager

Denanh Tran – Stage Manager

Cynthia Reason

Cynthia Reason (she/her) is a former newspaper journalist turned communications professional who currently works as Toronto Film School’s Manager of Communications. Prior to joining TFS, she spent 13 years working as a reporter for Torstar/Metroland Media Toronto, writing for publications including Toronto.com, the Etobicoke Guardian, and the Toronto Star, among others. Her byline has also appeared in the National Post. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Guelph and Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Humber College.

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