Sciences Participating with Arts & Culture in Education

Lion in the Streets

Director Barbara Kelly, along with the Dawson theatre, students have contrived to recreate the eerie, dreamlike theatrical experience of Judith Thompson’s surrealist play Lion in the Streets.

Lion in the Streets centers itself on the nightmarish tale of Isobel, a nine-year-old Portuguese immigrant in Toronto trapped in a purgatorial ghost-like state after having been savagely raped and murdered 17 years earlier. The play comprises a number of interconnected, graphic, and ultimately tragic plotlines bound together by Isobel’s attempts to reconcile the inexplicable suffering and evil she perceives in the various characters’ lives as well as her own life.

Barbara Kelly’s production of the play truly captures the subtle and complex collision of our ultra-modern sensibilities with the ambiguities associated with morality and justice.

This Dawson theatre production promises to be an exciting and emotional journey through the chaotic world of the varying characters of the play.

(Lion in the Streets plays January 27th to February 8th at Dawson’s Theatre : for more info visitdawsoncollege.qc.ca/theatre-... or call 514-931-5000)