Frontmezzjunkies reports: Panoply Clowns Reading Shakespeare in Toronto Parks
Panoply Theatre Collective presents Clowns Reading Shakespeare
After a successful series of workshop productions in 2023-2024, Clowns Reading Shakespeare is back for a full production with the support of Animating Toronto Parks 2025.
What can clowns teach us about the themes of love, power, fate, free will, and ambition? Laugh along with our clowns as they work together to explore three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies – Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet (to the best of their ability)!
Presented free of charge and outdoors at Memorial Park and Kew Gardens, Clowns Reading Shakespeare is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Animating Toronto Parks program & Arts in the Park program, with funding made possible by the Toronto Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Foundation. This production is also supported by Community Centre 55, Bard in the Park, and Ovation! Performing Arts Academy.
Directed by Kenzia Dalie (Riot King’s Red) and featuring Panoply Co-Artistic Directors Alyssa Pothier (In Your Own Backyard, 2019 Robert Beardsley Award shortlist; Space Space Revolution’s Falling Sickness), Paige Madsen (Toronto Youth Theatre’s Mouse on the Move), and Sienna Singh (David Mirvish/The Company Theatre’s Things I Know to Be True), alongside Brendan Kinnon (Riot King’s Red; Playhouse Collective’s The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals) and Callan Forrester (The Leading Player Project, EveryBODY on Stage; Drag Heals, OUTtv).
“Panoply is thrilled to bring this family-friendly production to wider audiences this summer, thanks to the support of Animating Toronto Parks,” said Panoply Co-Artistic Director Paige Madsen. “We can’t wait to share this hilarious show with you all!”
Panoply Theatre Collective is a Canadian charitable non-profit theatre company that prioritizes collaborative creation of new and adapted works.
Clowns Reading Shakespeare
Presented at Memorial Park (22 Little Avenue) June 19-22 and Kew Gardens (2075 Queen St. East) June 25-29
June 19, 7PM (Memorial Park)
June 20, 7PM (Memorial Park)
June 21, 2PM & 7PM (Memorial Park)
June 22, 2PM & 7PM (Memorial Park)
June 25, 7PM (Kew Gardens)
June 26, 7PM (Kew Gardens)
June 27, 7PM (Kew Gardens)
June 28, 2PM & 7PM (Kew Gardens)
June 29, 2PM (Kew Gardens)
Created by Panoply Theatre Collective and Kenzia Dalie
Directed and Designed by Kenzia Dalie
Featuring Alyssa Pothier, Brendan Kinnon, Callan Forrester,
Paige Madsen, and Sienna Singh
Associate Producer Bonnie Duff
More information available online HERE
