Tom McCamus (3/09 Three Sisters)
Excerpt from Torontoist 3/5/09: Tom McCamus
Tom Patterson Theatre
The Tom Patterson's intimate thrust-stage is no longer the festival's smallest theatre, but it does have a season of slightly less-obvious fare. Chekhov classic Three Sisters has a strong cast, including Irene Poole, Kelli Fox, and Tom McCamus.
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Excerpt from Playbill 5/8/09: Tom McCamus
Three Sisters, With Peacock, Poole and Badr, Begins at Ontario's Stratford Fest
By Kenneth Jones 08 May 2009
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Tom Patterson Theatre opens for the season in Stratford, Ontario, May 9 with the first preview of Susan Coyne's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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James Blendick plays Chebutykin, the doctor who has been the girls' surrogate father since before their mother died, and Tom McCamus (one of Henry's "sons" from Long Day's Journey Into Night on stage and film) as Vershinin, the married officer who falls in love with everyone he meets.
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Three Sisters runs until Oct. 3. Opening night is June 3.
For tickets, call the box office at (800) 567-1600 or visit www.stratfordshakespearefestival.com.
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Excerpt from The Toronto Star 6/4/09: Tom McCamus
One sister makes up for the rest
To cut to the heart of the matter, if everyone in the evening were as wonderful as Lucy Peacock's Masha and Tom McCamus's Vershinin, things would be glorious. These two deliver performances that are breathtaking in scope and heart-wrenching in depth. At first, Peacock seems like a bored housewife and McCamus a callow philanderer. But as their affair progresses, we are drawn deeper into their passion; their farewell scene, especially from Peacock, is unforgettable.
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There's much missed in this Three Sisters, but one is tempted to recommend it for the sheer, unforgettable passion of Peacock and McCamus. Acting of this superb intensity doesn't come along very often.
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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail 6/5/09: Tom McCamus
A sister act that's hard to beat
J. Kelly Nestruck Published on Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 4:26PM EDT
A year after her father's death, Masha is resurrected from the dead by the arrival in town of Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin, played by Tom McCamus at his most craggily charismatic. The two have chemistry like vinegar and baking soda - and when they make love with words from across a room, it is positively volcanic.
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Excerpt from Press Plus 1 6/9/09: Tom McCamus
THREE SISTERS - Stratford Shakespeare Festival Of Canada: REVIEWS - LIVE
Written by Kindah Mardam Bey Saturday, 06 June 2009 21:53
Production: Three Sisters
Playwright: Anton Chekhov
Director: Martha Henry
Principle Cast: Lucy Peacock, Tom McManus, Irene Poole, Dalal Badr
Company: Stratford Shakespeare Festival Of Canada
Venue: Tom Patterson Theatre
Run: June 3rd - October 3rd 2009
OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
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Capturing the softness of the moment when Vershinin (Tom McManus) confesses his love to Masha (Lucy Peacock) is sensual with the glow of the candles capturing each reaction. As I mentioned, the cast did a bevy of fabulous performances. Tom McManus as the charismatic Vershinin was as equally ensnaring to the audience as it was to two of the three sisters.
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Excerpt from WBEZ 8/24/09: Tom McCamus
Stratford Shakespeare Festival tops summer theater season
August 24, 2009
Tom McCamus gives a wonderfully balanced portrayal Vershinin, the married officer who toys with the sisters while pretending that he's helplessly trapped: whatever the character believes about himself at that moment, we believe right along with him.
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Excerpt from The Globe and Mail 12/29/09: Tom McCamus
My top 10 productions of the year (give or take a couple)
The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Dec. 29 2009, 4:21 PM EST
Three Sisters at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont. Why? That steamy scene between Tom McCamus as Vershinin and Lucy Peacock as Masha, where they make love with words from across a room. Whew!
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Excerpt from Windsor Star 3/5/14: Tom McCamus
Chekhov’s Three Sisters for everyone
Ted Shaw Mar 06, 2014 - 5:00 AM EDT
Warren, 59, is a 1978 graduate of the University of Windsor school of dramatic art. Among his fellow graduates were Stratford Festival leading actors Tom McCamus and Stephen Ouimette.
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Excerpt from Financial Post: Tom McCamus
Sisters doing it for -- and to-- themselves
Tom McCamus has played Vershinin as a man whose word-spinning, though it may originally have been born of conviction, also comes in very handy as an erotic weapon. He now uses it quite consciously as such, drawing off his boots as he talks about mankind's terrible present and glorious feature; Lucy Peacock's Masha, taking a conscious decision to be hypnotized, removes her own shoes and then her shawl. That's as far as it goes, but it's enough to detonate Masha's admission to her sisters -- who don't want to hear it -- that she loves Vershinin and her headlong departure, we assume, to his bed. As in any first-rate Chekhov production, everything has roots, everything has consequences. The aftermath for Masha and Vershinin is an enforced farewell that McCamus plays as the superficial mugged by the tragic, and Peacock, who these last few years has become a great actress, plays with a feral despair so abandoned -- in both senses -- that you can hardly believe you're watching it.
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Excerpt from University of Lethbridge Fall 2012: Tom McCamus
“The first time I put on a Maggie Smith ...”: The Role of Costuming in the Artistic Process of Actresses at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Sara Topham and Marlis Schweitzer
Lucy Peacock: I was in the warehouse the fall after The Three Sisters had closed and the costumes for Tom McCamus and me [as Vershinin and Masha] were going into archives, and they were hanging on a rack together, and I said, “Oh look, there’re our costumes,” and they said, “Yeah, we can’t separate them,” and they’re not going to. They’re actually going to put them into archives together because they couldn’t put them apart. Now that’s fantastic ...
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