KISS by Guillermo Calderón
Two couples meet for dinner to take their minds off the war raging around them. An unexpected profession of love, an untimely proposal, and one kiss later, one of the foursome lies dead on the floor. Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón’s newest play breaks open cultural barriers as a group of western actors interpreting a Syrian play slowly realize the limits of their own understanding, and the suffocating effect of an oppressive, omnipresent regime. For its second year in residency at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Theatre Smash (2015’s Das Ding (The Thing)) joins forces with ARC and Canadian Stage to present a work essential to our time.
29 March–16 April 2017
ARC proudly presents the North American premiere of Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss, in collaboration with Theatre Smash and Canadian Stage
DIRECTED by Ashlie CORCORAN
ASSOCATE DIRECTED by Christopher STANTON
PERFORMED by Liza BALKAN, Nicola CORREIA-DAMUDE, Greg GALE, Andre SILLS, Naomi WRIGHT and Bahareh YARAGHI
SET DESIGNED by Jung-Hye KIM
LIGHTING DESIGNED by Rebecca PICHERACK
PROJECTION by Denise KARN
COSTUMES by Jackie CHAU
MUSIC and SOUND by Christopher STANTON
STAGE MANAGED by Natasha BEAN-SMITH
KISS was first commissioned by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Spring 2014).