GLASTONBURY WEST in association with Naked in the Wings present
THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL
Written by Arthur Schnitzler • Translated by Harley Granville-Baker
Directed by Sue Miner • Starring John O'Callaghan

Glastonbury West Artistic Director Carroll Bishop is proud to announce that a new production of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant play cycle, THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL, will premiere at Artword Theatre in September.

Seven individual plays, THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL follow a rich Viennese playboy searching for love from seven different women.   Anatol’s (John O'Callaghan) evasions when his ladies become too real speak in familiar tones to our own intimate issues of trust and fear, love and power. His best friend and confidant MAX is on hand to bind Anatol's wounds or turn them into a joke. 
 
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) is one of Austria’s leading modernist playwrights with a body of work which includes plays, fiction, and poetry.  His outspoken criticism of bourgeois hypocrisy and sexual double standards, not to mention his own capacious sexual appetite (which he documented from the age of 17) made him notorious.
 
North Americans first came into contact with Schnitzler's plays in 1912, when John Barrymore mounted  the production of Anatol on Broadway. Tom Stoppard has adapted two Schnitzler plays (Liebelei – Dalliance,Undiscovered Country); David Hare's The Blue Room and Max Ophuls' film adaptation La Ronde is based on Reigen; and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut was inspired by Schnitzler's Rhapsody: A Dream Novel.
 
John O’Callaghan has performed in Canada, Ireland and the USA.  He is currently appearing in Howie the Rookie at the Irish Arts Centre in NYC, directed by the Emmy Award Winner Nancy Malone. Most recently he appeared in Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West at The Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles) and has starred in the North American Premiere of Conor McPherson’s Rum And Vodka.
 
Dora-nominated director Sue Miner is co-artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with Mark Brownell. She has directed James O’Reilly’s Work, Big Head Goes to Bed (Night Kitchen), Titus Andronicus  (Shakespeare in the Rough) and Ann-Marie Macdonald and Beverly Cooper's Nancy Drew Without a Clue.  Sue's work with the Pea Green Theatre Group include Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman, The Blue Wall and Orchidelerium, with Theatre Voce.
 
THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL features seven strong, sexy women – Marie-Beath Badian, Kim Kuhteubl, Lindsay McMahon, Stacie Mistysyn (DeGrassi High), Tara Samuel (Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye), Darlene Spencer and Kathryn Winslow (This is Wonderland).  And James Murray as MAX, a loyal friend to Anatol,
 
GLASTONBURY WEST In association with Naked in the Wings present
THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL

Written by Arthur Schnitzler • Translated by Harley Granville-Baker
Directed by Sue Miner • Starring John O'Callaghan
Artword Theatre, 75 Portland Street, Toronto

Dates and Times:
Opens September 15th to October 9th.
Previews Thursday Sept. 15 and Friday Sept. 16 at 8 pm
and Saturday the 17th at 2:30 pm.

We have three previews before the official opening.
They will be $16. The official opening is
Saturday night, September 17 at 8 pm.

Prices:
ALL EVENING PERFORMANCES AND ALL
SATURDAY MATINEES are $31.
SUNDAY MATINEES only are $16.

Group rates are available. Call 416-923-4183

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