Six Excellent Eda Holmes Plays
iPhoto caption: Jeff Lillico and Jay Turvey (Shaw Festival, 2004)
Eda Holmes has a ton of excellent shows under her belt in her distinguished career as a director. As associate director of the Shaw Festival, she’s directed two shows this season: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, by Shaw himself, and Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance.
But her career is diverse and vibrant outside of the Shaw Festival, too. She’s directed a large number of plays in Toronto, and won the 2015 Dora Award for Tom at the Farm. Eda often draws on her background as a dancer in her approach to her work, as she explains to Catherine Kustanczy in this month’s Spotlight feature.
Here are six of Eda Holmes’ most memorable plays.
Trout Stanley
Michelle Giroux and Gord Rand (Factory Theatre, 2005)
Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh
Tom at the Farm
Christine Horne and Jeff Lillico (Buddies in Bad Times, 2015)
Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh
Floyd Collins
Jeff Lillico and Jay Turvey (Shaw Festival, 2004)
Photo by David Cooper
Little Mercy's First Murder
Tony Nappo, Melody Johnson, Neil Barclay, Jeff Lillico, and Jane Johanson (Tarragon Theatre, 2003)
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
Gray Powell, Kelli Fox, Steven Sutcliffe, and Jim Mezon (Shaw Festival, 2015)
Photo by David Cooper
Music for Contortionist
Nora McLellan and Jinny J. Jacinto (Tarragon Theatre, 2000)
Photo courtesy of Tarragon Theatre
"I had a little break before Shaw rehearsals started, and so my husband and I went to France to do the Joan pilgrimage."
iPhoto caption: Eda Holmes
Eda Holmes takes a unique approach to storytelling that incorporates her interest in rarely told points of view as well as her background as a dancer.
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