Successions

Successions by Michaela Di Cesare

WORLD PREMIERE

Centaur Theatre

SUCCESSIONS

April 10 to May 6, 2018

By MICHAELA DI CESARE

Directed by TAMARA BROWN

A bright new comedy from a fresh Italian-Canadian voice

From the award-winning creator of the hit comedy 8 Ways My Mother Was Conceived, and Wildside Festival favourite In Search of Mrs. Pirandello, comes a new family saga about two second generation Italian-Canadian brothers: an uptight, upwardly mobile lawyer running for office and his kid brother, who’d rather party than work. After the sudden death of their parents, they must decide whether to hold on to the family home, a rundown relic stuffed to the gills with memories, secrets and a lifetime of worthless junk. To move forward, they need to let go but at what cost to their relationship?

Michaela Di Cesare

Actor - Writer - Performer

Michaela Di Cesare completed her Master’s Degree at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and is a recipient of a MECCA award for Best Text (along with a Best Actress and Revelation nomination) and the Launchpad Award for Emerging Artists. Most recently, she played Anaar Bailey in a staged reading of Andrea Scott's Eating Pomegranates Naked while being an artist-in-residence at Black Theatre Workshop. At the Saputo Theatre, she played Rosa in Tennesse Williams’ The Rose Tattoo. Michaela has been performing her one-woman show 8 Ways my Mother was Conceived in Toronto, Montreal and New York City. Its next stops will be in Hudson, Ottawa and then back to Montreal at Leonardo Da Vinci Centre. Some of her roles include Saura in Titus Andronicus, Jaya Patel in The Arrangement, Mariedl in Werner Schwab’s Holy Mothers and the Young Woman in Mike Bartlett’s My Child. Feature film credits include Beatrice in Blame it on Obama (2012) and Joni’s Agent in Too Tall (2013). TV credits include Psych Out, Fatal Vows and A Stranger in my Home.