RMTC plans 'reimagined season' for January: artistic director

Like most theatre companies across the country, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre has had to adapt in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier in June, that adaptation included shutting down the first two significant shows of its season,NetworkandThe Sound of Music.

But where many Canadian companies have jettisoned the 2020-21 season altogether, RMTC is still going ahead with a lineup of shows artistic director Kelly Thornton is calling a "reimagined season,"starting in January.

Even so, the scaled-down season does not include some previously announced shows, including playwrightPamela Mala Sinha'sNew, an examination of Sinha's own roots in its story of a group of immigrants coming from India to Winnipeg in 1970, and the Warehouse showThe Runner,about an Israelimedic who saves the life of a Palestinian suicide bomber instead of a soldier.

Most painful for Thornton is the cancellation of the musicalChildren of God,which was to be the keystonepresentationin Thornton's The Bridge program, a "festival of ideas" that was to replace the Master Playwright's Festival. The Bridge has also collapsed for now.

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