Directed by Weyni Mengesha
Presented by Tarragon Theatre
Written By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Featuring Claire Calnan, Sarah Dodd, Raquel Duffy, Rick Roberts, Nicole Underhay
Set & costume design: Astrid Janson
Lighting design: Bonnie Beecher
Composition & sound design: Thomas Ryder Payne
Dialect coach: Diane Pitblado
Stage manager: Marie Fewer
Won 2 Toronto Critics Awards including Best Direction
Nominated for 4 Dora Awards including Best Direction
The show sold out audiences and appeared top of the charts for best play of the year in four of the major newspapers.
“Weyni Mengesha’s production certainly shows her to be one of the more versatile directors in Toronto at the moment...’The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs’ is a little gem.”
The Globe and Mail
“Mengesha has staged it all with a sculptural beauty that manages to deliver the most out of Frechette’s script.”
Toronto Star
“The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs is a mini masterpiece...
Astonishingly good production...Mengesha has given the play a hypnotic L-shaped staging... There have been some great things in the Toronto theatre recently, but this is the best, the very best. ”
The National Post
