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19 de jun. de 2024 · Mengesha sits down with Q's Tom Power to talk about the changes she made to A Streetcar Named Desire, its legacy and why the play still matters today.
19 de jun. de 2024 · Director Weyni Mengesha and actor Amy Rutherford talk about the Soulpepper remount of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire.
21 de jun. de 2024 · Soulpepper director Weyni Mengesha seems to have taken her cue from this line for the revival of her award-winning — and, yes, magical — 2019 production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece.
Hace 2 días · As directed by Soulpepper’s Artistic Director Weyni Menghesa, this inspired interpretation is full of fresh angles on a play that is programmed with such frequency by theatre companies and high-school English classes that it has become weighted with audience preconceptions.
Hace 2 días · 3Sis x Canada. July 1, 2024. by Inua Ellams. I have only won one award for my work in theatre. It was for The 14th Tale, 15 years ago. I know awards don’t really matter - I don’t write for them - but something alchemical happens when you win something, when the industry seems to say ‘I see you, I see what you have done, keep doing it.’.
Hace 3 días · Soulpepper’s 2024-25 season pairs Canadian classics with thrilling premieres and gorgeous music “The stories that we’re putting on stage are to [allow] people to feel reflected in their city, and to make them feel like they have agency,” says artistic director Weyni Mengesha.
19 de jun. de 2024 · Weyni Mengesha is an award-winning Canadian theatre maker and the artistic director of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company. Five years ago, she reworked Tennessee Williams’s historic play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which was a resounding hit for Canadian theatre.
