Art

Showtime

Saturday February 18, 2012 @ 8 pm
RBC Theatre
Tickets: $40 - $25

Tony Award winning theatrical tour de force!

by Yasmina Reza

Translated by: Christopher Hampton
Directed by: Pamela Keyes
Produced by: Paul Groulx & John O'Hara
Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatist Play Services Inc.
Cast: Vince Carlin; Chris Reid; Yo Mustafa

Three long-time friends find their solid friendship on shaky ground when Serge buys an expensive painting. The canvas is white, with a few white lines. Lines are drawn as they square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures.

Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes "art". Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them.

Serge is proud of his acquisition fully expecting the approval of his friends. Marc scornfully describes it as, but is it the painting that offends him, or the uncharacteristic independence-of-thought that the purchase reveals in Serge?

For the insecure Yvan, burdened by the problems of his impending doom (wedding) and his dissatisfaction at his job as a stationery salesman, their friendship is his sanctuary...but his attempts at peace-making backfire. Eager to please he laughs about the painting with Marc but tells Serge he likes it. Pulled into the disagreement, his vacillations fuel the blazing row.

Lines are drawn and they square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendship.

"Anyone looking for a play that is funny, sophisticated, stylish, stimulating and moving should go to Art." - Independent (London)

Language and content may offend

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