Bad Acting Teachers
by Sky Gilbert
A young actor in search of
good training visits three teachers who advertise private acting lessons
– a Canadian B-Movie actor, a new age therapist, and a gay agent.
Seeing each of the teachers separately, he is progressively assaulted,
insulted, and molested. Not since Ionesco’s The Lesson has
being a student been quite so fraught with terror. A meditation on the
sadism that so often accompanies power.
“The best sustained feat
of comic writing, acting, and direction to appear in Toronto in ages.”
—Robert Cushman,
National Post
“Playwright Sky Gilbert has
tapped into a motherlode of tragicomic potential—the perilous, egomaniacal
snake-and-dagger-filled world of dramatic instruction—for his latest
play, Bad Acting Teachers.”
—Mary Dickie,
Toronto Sun
“Bad Acting Teachers
develops an interesting parallel between the anonymous actor’s frustrating
quest for a coach that isn’t completely crazy and the similar search
for a suitable sexual identity.”
—J.S. EYE
Magazine
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