ATLAS Stage Productions Canada presents the North American premiere of:

Love Thy Saviour by J.Lutowski

Translated by Prof. Kevin Windle

January 10, 2010 – Mirek Polatynski, the Founding Artistic Director of ATLAS Stage Productions Canada, announced today the company’s production and North American Premiere of Love Thy Saviour by J.Lutowski on February 26, 2010, 8pm, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario, Canada. The show is 1h55min. long including one intermission.

Opening night: Feb. 26 at 8pm

Feb. 27 at 2pm and 8pm

Feb 28 at 2pm

Mirek Polatynski directs Julia Lefebvre as Rachel, Colin Murphy as Abraham/Old Fellow, Adam Kolozsvari as Alonso / Lebon / Ex, Heather Couch as Beetje, and Andrew Fleming as Peter Cloos. See our Photo Gallery at http://www.atlasstage.com/gallery/

Set and Costume Design, Joanna Dabrowski; Light Director, Bogdan Paszkiewicz; Photos and visual media, Peter Bacler;  Sound Effects,Alcatrax Studios.

Synopsis: The three acts have widely differing historical, cultural and geographical settings, and a varying cast of characters when produced as a unified work. 

Act I: Seville, Spain, 1493. At the height of the Spanish inquisition, a Jewish girl renounces her background and religion to marry the Christian grandee (Saviour) whom she loves. He, Alonso, is thus “rescuing” her from Jewry, and also saving her father’s life by smuggling him out of Spain.

Act II:  Holland, 1793.  A saddler and his wife have to accommodate two French soldiers (Saviours) of the “liberating” Napoleon Bonaparte army, bringing their notion of liberty, equality and fraternity into an area where these are neither welcomed nor understood. It is a mix of brilliant and sophisticated humor with surprised consequences.

Act III: Poland, 1953, time of “Stalinism”. The hallucinations  of  a  state-security interrogator (Saviour), involving a visit  from his  mentor who  operated   in  the  days when  ”ideals” meant something,  and there were  still  ”real”  enemies  to be  sought out.

Thank you to the Toronto Arts Council and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto for their kind patronage.

Evening shows will be performed with simultaneous Polish translation.