{"id":422,"date":"2010-06-23T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=422"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:09:42","slug":"alabanza-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Alabanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/TCHGcmLpMLI\/AAAAAAAAA5k\/diH6D8h3vU8\/s1600\/tracy+wright.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" ru=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_T3kh_qPyRZY\/TCHGcmLpMLI\/AAAAAAAAA5k\/diH6D8h3vU8\/s320\/tracy+wright.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">tracy wright<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is with great sadness and a heavy heart tonight that I learned that the gifted and beloved actor of both stage and screen Tracy Wright passed away yesterday Tuesday June 22nd, 2010 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/2009\/05\/everything-works-on-paper-this-is-how.html\">I feel so blessed to have seen Ms. Wright perform in the remount of Daniel MacIvor\u2019s play <em>A Beautiful View<\/em> last Spring<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarragontheatre.com\/\">Tarragon Theatre<\/a>. She gave a performance that shone particularly bright for me as she infused her character, Liz, with so much contradiction, so much humour and so much heart. That was her last Toronto performance. She had planned to read the role of Galileo in the Small Wooden Shoe fundraiser for the Actor\u2019s Fund of Canada of Bertolt Brecht\u2019s play <em>Life of Galileo<\/em> on May 30th amid a dazzling cast of Canadian theatre superstars, but she was forced to withdraw from the project as she recovered from surgery. The evening\u2019s tone then shifted, <a href=\"http:\/\/praxistheatre.com\/2010\/05\/life-of-galileo-thanking-tracy-wright\/\">according to Praxis Theatre\u2019s Blog<\/a>, as a night to give thanks and to celebrate Tracy Wright. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Wright founded the Augusta House with Daniel Brooks and Don McKellar in 1989, which set the tone for Queen Street West\u2019s art\u2019s scene. She performed in various plays at the Theatre Centre, as well as touring productions outside of Ontario. <a href=\"http:\/\/theatrecentre.org\/wordpress\/?p=25\">Click here<\/a> to read an interesting interview Ms. Wright did with the incredibly articulate and wildly smart Laurel Green about her connection to the history of the Theatre Centre. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Wright was perhaps best known for her work in Canadian film, and especially for her long time collaboration with her husband Canadian filmmaking genius Don McKellar. She played cat-obsessed Dizelle on <em>Twitch City<\/em>, was in <em>Superstar, Bubbles Galore<\/em>, played a gallery curator who accidentally begins an online relationship with a small boy in <em>Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/em>, played opposite McKellar in <em>Monkey Warfare<\/em> and is easily the funniest and most captivating character in his film <em>Last Night<\/em> (which, if you haven\u2019t seen, you should because it is a lovely one.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CKc3LiLGKcg\">You can watch her in this infamous sketch from Kids in the Hall here. <\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Wright will be greatly missed by the Canadian theatre and film communities of which she played such an integral part, and I wish to send out much love and support to Don McKellar and their family and friends during this sad and difficult time. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tracy wright It is with great sadness and a heavy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4673],"tags":[6606,3744,4596,3274,3890,6607,3746,6339],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-augusta-house","tag-caroline-gillis","tag-daniel-brooks","tag-daniel-macivor","tag-don-mckellar","tag-laurel-green","tag-tarragon-theatre","tag-tracy-wright"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alabanza - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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