Sandy Rustin, the writer behind The Cottage, is one of America’s most-produced playwrights, with a particular gift for reducing perfectly respectable audiences to helpless laughter. Her stage adaptation of Clue has enjoyed more than 5,000 productions worldwide, and she made her Broadway debut with The Cottage, named one of Entertainment Weekly’s best Broadway shows of 2023.
Now, to celebrate The Cottage’s Professional Canadian Premiere, Sandy herself is coming to Edmonton! We’re thrilled to welcome her to Teatro Live! for opening weekend, giving you the chance to meet the person behind the play, ask your burning questions and learn about the craft behind the comedy.
On Saturday, November 14, you’ll have two opportunities to spend some time in her company:
Writing Comedy for the Stage | 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Join Sandy for an intensive 2-hour class in the art of writing comedy for the stage.The Writer’s Room: A Conversation with Sandy Rustin | 6:00 p.m.
This season, we’re putting our wonderful playwrights in the spotlight with The Writer’s Room, a new series of audience Q&As celebrating the writers behind our productions. It’s your chance to hear how their plays take shape, discover what inspires them and ask a few questions of your own. Join us for the very first conversation with Sandy Rustin, the playwright of The Cottage!
“I am delighted for The Cottage to make its Professional Canadian Premiere at Teatro Live!, a theatre that has built its reputation around comedy. This play emulates the style and tone of Noël Coward’s frothy bedroom comedies of the ‘20s & ‘30s, but infuses a contemporary, feminist perspective, creating a new genre: feminist farce. I’m so grateful to Teatro Live! for programming female-centric, female-driven, female-written comedies and count myself lucky to have my work produced at a theatre that celebrates the evolution of comedic writing in all its forms.”
