Infinitheatre
Infinithéâtre is an anglophone theatre in Montreal. Located in the Mile End area of Montreal, and most of their productions play at Le Bain St-Michel, a converted bath house. Founded in 1988 by Marianne Ackerman and Clare Schapiro as Théâtre 1774, the name changed to Infinithéâtre in 1997, when Artistic Director Guy Sprung took over. Known as an alternative English language theatre in Montreal, one-time referred to as the "risk theatre", they focus on developing and presenting new plays by Quebec writers. Under the belief that "Theatre is a collective experience that must be both an entertainment and a reflection of and on significant social and political issues". In this regard, they organize an annual playwriting contest entitled Qrite-On-Q. The prize is $1000 and an opportunity to have the play publicly read at Pipeline, Infinitheatre's reading series destined to allow the audience to contribute to the theatre's future programming.
1995 Sliding In All Directions, a mosaic written by four separate playwrights and directed by Guy Sprung wins the Masque (the all-Québec Theatre Awards) for best English production of the year.
1997/98 To showcase the depth and quality of Montréal's small English theatre companies Infinithéâtre stages three festivals of new plays: November to Remember (1997), May To Play (1998), and the Infinite Festival (1998).
October 1999 Infinithéâtre transforms the immense, abandoned Darling Foundry in Old Montréal into a performance venue and presents a unique bilingual version of Samuel Beckett's Endgame/Fin de partie. Despite little heating and below zero temperatures, the production was a major critical and audience success and the run had to be extended.
2000 In co-production with the Francophone theatre company OMNIBUS, Michael Mackenzie's bilingual play Farce is mounted as an official Heritage Canada Millennium event at Espace Libre.
January 2001 Byron Ayanoglu's play Food/Bouffe, staged at the Lion d'Or, is a sold out featured event of the 2001 Montréal Highlights Festival.
September 2001Infinithéâtre is Québec and Canada's first representation at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre with its bilingual production of Beckett's Endgame/Fin de partie.
June/July 2002 Jacob Richmond's Small Returns and Trevor Ferguson's Long, Long, Short, Long are mounted at the Monument National. Mr. Ferguson's play is subsequently nominated as Best New Québec Text at the 2002 Soirée des Masques.
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