Girls & Boys
By Dennis Kelly Running at Crow’s Theatre in Toronto from January 26th - February 12th.
GIRLS & BOYS HAS BEEN EXTENDED! MUST CLOSE FEB 19th!
“A one woman monologic shocker about marriage, careers, kids and jealousy...contains a riveting and gut wrenching performance by Fiona Mongillo.” Chicago Tribune
Fiona Mongillo gives a superb performance that simply could not be bettered.…a breathtaking feat of acting.…an enlightening play and a brilliant performance.…one of the most emotionally and intellectually gripping plays I’ve seen all year.” ★★★★★, Stage-Door
An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family.
But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn.
Note: Girls & Boys is intended for a mature audience and contains graphic descriptions of violence.
Cast and Creative
Written by: Dennis Kelly
Directed by: Lucy Jane Atkinson
Cast: Fiona Mongillo
Lighting and Sound Design: Stephen Degenstein
Costume and Set Design: Bonnie Deakin
A special thank you to Phil Mongillo, The Falstaff Centre, and the Stratford Festival for their time, generosity and use of property.
Lucy Jane Atkinson
Lucy is an experienced and award-winning director and dramaturg. She trained on LAMDA’s postgraduate directing course and the National Theatre Directors’ Course. Her work focuses on new writing, and in 2018 she was named number 1 on The Stage’s Top Talents To Watch.
For Here For Now: WHACK (2019), The One (rehearsed reading, 2018) Recent credits include A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW by Tatty Hennessy, (VAULT Festival, UK tour, Trafalgar Studios (winner: Outstanding New Work, VAULT 2018; Winner: Off West-End Award for Best Actress; Nominated: Off West-End Awards for Best Director, Most Promising Playwright, & Best New Play), VESPERTILIO by Barry McStay, (VAULT Festival, Dublin Fringe; winner: Show of the Week VAULT 2019), and MEAT, by Gillian Greer, (Theatre 503). As Assistant Director: MIDDLE by David Eldridge, (National Theatre, 2022). Her first filmed piece, TESTAMENT, garnered 13 nominations and 5 wins at the 2022 BroadwayWorld awards, including Best Director, and Best Streaming Play.
Fiona Mongillo
Fiona is the Artistic Director of Here For Now Theatre Company and this season is performing in the Canadian Premiere of Girls & Boys. Selected Theatre Credits: Angelina in Whack! (Here For Now), Senta von Schrader in Framed (Lighthouse/ HFN), Louise in The Enchantment (HERE Arts, NYC); Bessie in The Young Ladies of Baddeck (Theatre Baddeck); Rose in Eigengrau, Summer in A Fountain Troubled, Elisabeth in Laundry and Bourbon (Here For Now); title role in Hamlet, Flaminia in The Double Inconstancy, Lady Fancifull in The Provok'd Wife (LAMDA); Hilde in The Master Builder (Yorick Theatre/ UBC). Selected Film Credits: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). Directing: Post Alice (Here For Now). Training: BFA in Acting, UBC; MA in Classical Acting, LAMDA
Dennis Kelly
Work for theatre includes Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End, Love and Money, Taking Care of Baby, DNA, Orphans, The Gods Weep, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Girls and Boys and The Regression. For television, he has written and created Utopia, Pulling (co-written, co-created), The Third Day (co-created) and Together, and for film he wrote the screenplay for Black Sea. He also wrote the book for the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Matilda: The Musical and in 2010 DNA became a set text on the GCSE English Literature syllabus.
Stephen Degenstein
Stephen is thrilled to be on board with Here For Now Theatre as lighting and sound designer. Stephen has more than 600 production credits across Canada over the past 35 years; his theatre design credits include Stratford Festival, Drayton Entertainment, National Arts Centre, Native Earth Performing Arts and Neptune Theatre. Credits in Stratford include resident lighting designer for INNERchamber, set and lighting designer for Alternative Theatre Works where credits include lighting for The Wind in the Willows, set and lighting for The Bear, Yalta Game, Afterplay, Jewel, and A Tender Thing. In addition to creating multiple set designs for Off The Wall at Factory 163, Stephen has been the technical director for SpringWorks over the past 10 years and was the designer/technical director for The International Children’s Festival held in Stratford in 2016. Stephen has taught in various technical theatre programmes including The Performing Arts Prep Program at Sheridan College, Humber College and Fanshawe College. Stephen resides in Stratford with his wife, singer/songwriter Pamela Jane Gerrand.
Bonnie Deakin
Bonnie is very happy to be working and designing with Here For Now. Bonnie spent many years in the Design Department at The Stratford Festival and is grateful for all she learned working with some of the world’s greatest designers. She has designed many productions including “Hedda Gabler”, “Man of La Mancha”, “Mamma Mia!”, “Oklahoma”, “Les Miserables”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, and “Elf, the Musical” . She recently designed (pre pandemic) “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” for Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, after designing many of their mainstage shows. She has designed for Neptune Theatre, The Charlottetown Festival, Theatre Northwest, and The Globe Theatre, to name a few. Bonnie lives in Stratford with her actor husband, Ian Deakin and son Robin.