HOWL-O-WEEN Dance Party Fundraiser
It’s been a little while since we hosted our first impromptu Halloween gathering on Howland Avenue. For those of you who weren’t around during the heady days of 2015… let’s just say it was quite the evening. Fun was had, friendships were made, promises were broken and red wine was spilled on a stair runner.
Well this year we are levelling up with a huge “Howl-o-Ween” celebration at Toronto’s Avling Brewery in Leslieville. There will be awards for best costume, great raffle prizes, excellent discount Avling brew, and lots and lots of dancing.
When: Tuesday October 29th from 9pm ’til Late!
Where: Avling Brewery, 1042 Queen Street East
Tickets: $10 at the door and proceeds will be going towards The Howland Company’s 2020 production of Casimir and Caroline at Crow’s Theatre.
Wear a costume if you have one. If not, we’ll have some options awaiting you at the door, if you dare to wear them! Otherwise, no costume is totally fine as well. Just come to dance the night away with us!
Let’s make Tuesday October 29, 2019 another one for the memory books. Hope to see you there!
Find out more about the event here!
Casimir and Caroline
Photo by Dahlia Katz
Casimir and Caroline
by Ödön von Horváth
A New Adaptation by Paolo Santalucia, Holger Syme and The Howland Company
Based on an original translation by Holger Syme
January 14 – February 9, 2020
Directed by Paolo Santalucia
Starring members of The Howland Company and more! (to be announced)
Crow’s Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest
Scotiabank Community Studio
345 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto
The Reading Group Schedule:
We can’t wait to read a play with you!
Up Next: Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa
When: Monday October 28th at 7pm
Location: The Gladstone Hotel in the Melody Bar, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
RSVP by emailing us at howlandcompanytheatre@gmail.com
Howland Company Workshops:
We’ve had the pleasure of working with some fantastic Toronto theatre professionals over the last few years. We explored actor/director Ker Well‘s powerful movement-based performance methods, Second City’s Katherine Ashby led us through a side-splitting day of actor’s improv, and we worked as script developer lab-rats with director and performance creator Philip McKee as well as with Toronto playwright Susanna Fournier.
Over the past few years, we have been joined by Holger Schott Syme: Chair – Department of English and Drama, at the University of Toronto Mississauga, working on an exciting new translation of Ödön von Horváth’s Casimir and Caroline which culminated in a staged workshop presentation last Fall at the University of Toronto’s Luella Massey Studio Theatre. We have since developed the script further with company member Paolo Santalucia and will be producing a full production in 2020. There was also a reading with The Howland Company of the new performance text in development by Fournier, take rimbaud. We workshopped the piece as part of our RBC Emerging Theatre Company Residency at Canadian Stage with a public showing.
