She is the one who sold the idea of “The Extinction Therapist” to Theatre Aquarius as a world premiere because she read and adored the script by the aforementioned Clem Martini, celebrated Calgary playwright. She has directed more than 25 world premieres and written four original works. The woolly mammoth, played by Rebecca Northan, is not insecure, but she’s very randy, insatiably so, yet frustrated because you don’t meet a lot of woolly mammoths anymore, says Brubaker, the director, who is in Hamilton from Calgary for the show. Let’s just say, Stanton is not exactly wearing a Barney costume.īut the character is nonetheless a T-Rex, an insecure one, strangely given that T-Rex was an apex predator, but extinction looms and it’s that kind of play. “It’s like what a colleague called ‘stretched reality,’” says director Christine Brubaker, of the strange, part-fantastical, part-very-real world that the play inhabits. Dennis Marshall, who has issues of his own. The aforementioned characters in this play include a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a woolly mammoth, a short-eared shrew, smallpox virus and a human minister of the environment, all being counselled through their shock and grief by an “extinction therapist,” Dr. So it’s promising, despite the subject matter which, well, isn’t. People who saw the dress rehearsal recently were gasping for breath through their laughter, I’m told. What could be the good news after that? Well, they’re the stars of “The Extinction Therapist,” which will enjoy its world premiere in Hamilton on Jan.

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