Lab Facilitator Peter Hinton was the National Arts Centre’s Artistic Director of English Theatre from 2005 to 2012. In 2007, Mr. Hinton welcomed Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company to the NAC, with whom the NAC English Theatre partnered to produce the world premiere of Margaret Atwood’s stage adaptation of her novel, The Penelopiad. His selected directing credits for the NAC include Marie Clements’ Copper Thunderbird, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Michel Tremblay’s Saint Carmen of The Main and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child. He was an associate artist at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for seven seasons, directing The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Universe, The Odyssey, The Duchess of Malfi, Into the Woods, and all three parts of his own verse trilogy entitled The Swanne. He spent five years as the Dramaturge in Residence at Playwrights Workshop Montreal and has been Associate Artistic Director at both The Canadian Stage Company and Theatre Passe Muraille. Mr. Hinton was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009.

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Rumble Theatre was handed these Obstructions by our peers with the challenge of building a show around them:

1. You may not use any set blocking or seminal text from previously published plays or other forms of literature
2. The piece must be an original collaborative creation with the text drawn from the group and must be in the form of a romantic comedy using an all-female cast
3. You may not use any ideas that are formulated outside of official rehearsal hours

On Saturday, June 8, 2013 at PL1422, Rumble presented:

DON’T DO DICK!

An original. all-female estrogen-infused rom-com

Hazel works at Gangbuy, a company aspiring to be the next Groupon. She dreams of something bigger and better, full of love and opportunities. When a promotion becomes available, she comes head-to-head with her office nemesis, Robin. Pretty soon sparks fly, insults are slung and desks get wet. See what happens when Hazel discovers what she really wants.

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From the creative team that brought you The Last Days of Judas Iscariot comes the Canadian premiere of Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s riveting, savage and wildly funny take on the classic Greek myth.

“Penelope kicks off The Cultch’s 40th anniversary season as a surefire hit” – Jerry Wasserman, The Province

“All very off-the-wall and surreal….The writing is gorgeous: beautiful and sad and bleak”  – Jo Ledingham

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