"The Informer" and "The Sermon on the Mount", from The Private Life of the Master Race [Toronto, 1946]

"The Informer" and "The Sermon on the Mount", from The Private Life of the Master Race [Toronto, 1946]

theatre production / spectacle de théâtre

Village Players

"The Barn", 2600 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario

1946-06-25 to 1946-06-26 [performances]

Steffin, Margarete; author/auteur.

Tovell, Vincent; dir./metteur en scène

Belyea, Terry; costumes | Jones, Marian; costumes | McColl, Joan; costumes

Barnett, Victor; electrician | Brown, Charles; stage manager | Davies, Barbara; properties | Gibson, George; electrician | Mavor Moore, Dora; producer

Allen, Barbara; act. (role: The Maid in "The Informer") | Breen, Melwyn; act. (role: The Husband in "The Informer") | Cruchet, Jean; act. (role: The Wife in "The Sermon") | Gibson, George; act. (role: The Dying Man in "The Sermon") | Hargraves, Gordon; act. (role: The Son in "The Informer") | King, Charmion; act. (role: The Wife in "The Informer") | Plinge, Walter; act. (role: The Pastor in "The Sermon") | Walkley, Hal; act. (role: The Son in "The Sermon")

lang.: English / anglais

Brecht work(s)/oeuvre(s): Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches

The Village Players performed the two self-contained scenes from Brecht's montage play in a double bill with Federico Garcia Lorca's "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife" (directed by Frances Halpenny).

“Current Events.” Globe and Mail 22 June 1946, p. 19.
Dora Mavor Moore Papers, MS Coll. 207, Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, University of Toronto.
Macdonald, Rose. “ ‘Barn’ Theatre Presents Fine Stage Efforts.” Evening Telegram [Toronto], 27 June 1946.
McElheran, Brock. “Village Players Carry Art to Barn in Housing Crisis.” Globe and Mail, 26 June 1946, p. 10.

Catalog.: Joerg Esleben, University of Ottawa