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Hello Friend,
Venus in Fur returns this week to Toronto for its final triumphant holiday run. There is your last opportunity to see the performance that won Carly Street a Dora award and a Toronto Theatre Critics Association award, in the show that won the Dora Award for People's Choice. The Toronto Star gave this electric, multifaceted showdown a glowing 4 star review calling it "sexy, sophisticated and sidesplittingly funny" while The Globe and Mail hailed it a “theatrical triumph."
13 shows only! Catch a matinee before the holidays.
This scintillating battle of the sexes will be played out in our intimate Berkeley Street Theatre. With four matinee performances scheduled before Christmas Day, you can easily fit this 90-minute show in-between your holiday shopping. Can't make it before Christmas? The show resumes on December 27 and 28 for its final performances, giving you dates that are perfect for a last-minute gift for friends and family.
Performances are filling up quickly - click below to get your tickets now.
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Shows run at 1 pm or 7 pm, December 18 to 28
We're again implementing an early curtain time with the 90-minute show on stage at 7 pm and 1 pm matinees. This gives you an opportunity to catch the show before seasonal parties or dinner with family, friends and colleagues. Venus in Fur tickets make a perfect holiday gift!
About the show
Venus in Fur, written by David Ives, tells the story of Vanda (Street) a young actress who is determined to land the lead in a new play based on the classic erotic novel, Venus in Furs. During her audition, she gets caught up in a provocative game of cat and mouse with the director (Miller), which blurs the line between fantasy and reality and tests the boundaries of dominance and submission. Click here to learn more.
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Playwright David Ives on the inspiration behind Venus in Fur
In an editorial for Broadway.com, Ives talks about the process of adapting a 19th century novel into this smash-hit play:
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I was led... to re-read Venus im Pelz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s notorious 1870 novelization of his own submissive erotic entanglement. Venus in Fur has never been considered a “great†novel (its prose is as Teutonically leaden as velvet sandbags) but it is enough of a milestone that Sacher-Masoch put the M in S&M, lending his name, because of the book, to the term “masochism.â€
Never mind the prose: I found myself electrified. Dramaturgically electrified, I mean, because the relationship between Severin and Vanda, the two lovers of the plot, seemed to dramatize itself without the intervention of a playwright’s hands. ... Venus in Fur sparks with the friction of two buttoned-up people in an erotic power play who challenge, resist and disagree with each other even while bound by mutual sexual attraction. That sure sounded dramatic to me.
By the way, for anyone wondering about the title (“Why Venus in Fur? Isn’t it Venus in FURS?â€) Venus in FUR has always sounded better, and more natural to me, than the uglier Venus in FURS. And these days, we don’t say that a woman is wearing furs, we say she’s wearing fur or a fur. Nuff, or muff, said.
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Seared scallops at Wine Bar
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