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You Can't Get There From Here

Factory Theatre

You Can’t Get There From Here is an audio drama series presented by Toronto’s Factory Theatre. A limited series featuring five commissioned audio theatrical works from some of our country’s most creative minds. This season we're pleased to present audio dramas from award-winning playwrights Marjorie Chan, Ins Choi, Amy Lee Lavoie & Omari Newton, Kat Sandler, and Guillermo Verdecchia.You Can’t Get There From Here presents listeners with fresh perspectives on familiar Toronto landmarks and neighbourhoods and glimpses into the micro-dramas occurring each day around us, hidden in plain sight. Each episode offers a new, self-contained story and a vivid audio experience from each of our five playwrights and features the work of over 20 artists and arts workers. Audiences can choose to listen from the comforts of their own homes, or if you're a Toronto local, you can take a journey across the city – either way, you're sure to see the land on which we live and work anew.
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Casting

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03/08/22 • 25 min

A look into the world of T.V. casting, the discussions that happen, the decisions that are made, and the lack of opportunity given to those who have not been represented before. Ins Choi’s new audio drama takes audiences through a journey of understanding the challenging and uniquely flawed decision making of those who hold the most power in an industry that’s meant to represent the audience who watches.
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Written by Ins Choi, Directed by Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster
Featuring: Shawn Ahmed, Laura Condlln, and Janet Porter
Sound Design & Composition by Mikael Bensimon

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The Artists

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03/08/22 • 35 min

Love sees no barriers – at least that is what young jazz musician Nicky hopes her judgemental mother Thea will believe when she is introduced to Nicky’s much older boyfriend.

Nicky has been lying to her mother about her relationship with a much older man, a man she is in love with, a man she sees a long future with and man who is adamant to be introduced to her family. When they show up to Thea’s house for a birthday dinner, things go awry as past memories are brought up and old connections brought forward.

Kat Sandler’s The Artists is a comedic picture into complicated relationships, especially the one between mothers and their daughters.
CREDITS
Written and Directed by Kat Sandler
Featuring: HRH Anand Rajaram, Pamela Sinha, and Caroline Toal
Sound Design & Composition by Debashis Sinha
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  • McCarthy, Joe and Monaco, James V., "You Made Me Love You" (1913). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1248.
    Special thanks to Andrew Seok and Jeff Ho for assisting in the production of this musical number.
  • The The below are licensed via Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. No material changes were made to the tracks.
    1. Ketsa - Big Love, from the album Vitality
    https://ketsa.uk
    2. Humbug by Crowander
    https://crowander.com
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Doubletree

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03/08/22 • 34 min

Sydney and Tara are a couple in love, who have recently inherited an apartment in Toronto – in today’s market better than winning the lottery. But was this apartment the start to their happy life together or the path to their destruction? Crime podcaster Dom Maxwell is determined to find out the truth.

A horror story not for the faint of heart. From playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton, Doubletree brings an unsettling story about a couple’s demise and the death of their love.
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Written by Amy Lee Lavoie & Omari Newton, Directed by Mike Payette
Featuring: Chala Hunter, Andrew Kushnir, and Andre Sills
Sound Design & Composition by Mikael Bensimon

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A Good Place

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03/08/22 • 22 min

Set in Toronto – considered a multicultural mosaic, a welcoming place for immigrants, and those who are searching for a better life. But can it become ‘home’ for everyone?

Jorge misses’ home and his mother, and is trying his best to make a life for himself in this new city away from Mexico. John, a man of God, just wants to help him settle into this new life, but as Jorge struggles to find meaning, good work and fights to stay clean – can John really promise him a better life here?

From award-winning playwright, Guillermo Verdecchia, A Good Place delves into the hardships of leaving home behind in the hopes of a better life.
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Written by Guillermo Verdecchia, Directed by Matt McGeachy
Featuring: Matthew Edison, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, and Michael Scholar, Jr.
Sound Design & Composition by Debashis Sinha

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The Standard Sing

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03/08/22 • 34 min

From the corner of Spadina and Dundas in the heart of Toronto’s Chinatown, two friends, Helen and Justin, find themselves led to an old and abandoned theatre after receiving a cryptic note. Known as The Standard in the early 1920s, during the height of Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act, this venue had a history of renting its space to Cantonese Opera performers. Once inside, Helen and Justin run into the theatre’s mysterious and charismatic caretaker, Mr. Sing, who muses enthusiastically about the theatre’s history of Cantonese Opera performance.

A gripping thriller from award-winning playwright Marjorie Chan, The Standard Sing shines an honest light on the history of the Chinese Canadian experience in Toronto and brings the echoes of this experience to the forefront...suggesting that they may not be at rest...
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Written by Marjorie Chan, Directed by Aaron Jan
Featuring: Derek Kwan, Richard Lam, and April Leung
Sound Design & Composition by Debashis Sinha

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02/23/22 • 4 min

Five brand-new audio dramas dropping March 8, 2022!
Following a highly acclaimed first season, Toronto's Factory Theatre is proud to be returning to headphones across the globe with You Can’t Get There From Here Vol. 2 - featuring five brand new audio dramas from some of Canada's most creative minds. You Can’t Get There From Here offers listeners fresh perspectives on familiar Toronto landmarks and neighbourhoods and glimpses into the micro-dramas occurring each day around us, hidden in plain sight.
In this introductory episode, Factory Artistic Director Nina Lee Aquino shares a bit of background as to how this series came to be, what you can expect from Volume 2 of the series, and what we hope you'll be able to take away from each new audio theatrical work.
For more information, please visit: https://www.factorytheatre.ca/shows/you-cant-get-there-from-here-vol-2/

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