Two Minutes To Midnight Review – Theatre on the Ridge
“Ontario Visited Festival Nomad & Scoop kept glancing at each other… “Could this be us?” Two Minutes to Midnight
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Under the charming 🎪 big top tent on the scenic grounds of the Scugog Shores Museum, this captivating performance will pull you in and keep you guessing! Don’t miss it!
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Live Theatre Production offers TONS of expressions, laughter, thought provoking! (Two Minutes to Midnight)
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Directors’ notes
“How much more time…?”
I honestly can’t say how I would want to spend my last few minutes on earth in the face of global annihilation. I don’t know if anyone really could. Some people may think they know, but until confronted with the immensity of the reality of the situation, would any of us really know ourselves well enough. Who can say?
Two Minutes to Midnight explores this ultimate “what if” in the face of our social culture’s ever-growing distraction and distance from each other and ourselves, and at the heart of the play asks the question “How much more time are we gonna waste pretending everything’s okay?” For Jack and Tracy, truths are revealed and ignored as they strive for personal connection and oscillate between radical honesty and the perfect vacation. They take us on a very human roller coaster ride that is funny, sad and surprisingly hopeful.
In the early fall of 2024, I chose Two Minutes to Midnight for this season as a funny, sharp, satirical, but hypothetical, cautionary tale, an unlikely “what if” scenario. Today, I hope we can take a lesson from Jack and Tracy to stop pretending everything’s okay, to keep trying to connect through the distraction of our lives and still have a smile on our face. (Two Minutes to Midnight)
Carey Nicholson
Mission Statement
Theatre on the Ridge believes in the power of theatre as a universal language and medium of entertainment, self-expression, and communication to broaden understanding and empathy between individuals and communities. Their mission is to commit to telling their individual and collective stories through high-calibre productions, the creation of new plays, and the development of new artists. Theatre on the Ridge tells these stories in live and digital formats, is adaptive and attentive to the impact of heritage and change, and increases accessibility to theatre, thereby contributing to their community’s sense of well-being and connection.
Show Synopsis
TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT by Michael Ross Albert Directed by Carey Nicholson
Jack and Tracy really need a vacation, but everything at their all-inclusive tropical getaway has been a disappointment. It’s rained the entire trip, their social media influence hasn’t translated to real revenue yet, and an inbound nuclear missile might be about to annihilate them and everyone nearby. With the world– and their relationship– on the brink of collapse, the bickering couple stares down oblivion together, confronting the illusions that kept them together, and finding hope for their future in the chaos of imminent destruction.
Cast Bios
Karly Friesen
Karly is a Toronto based multidisciplinary actor from Sudbury Ontario.
She is a 2021 graduate of the Theatre Performance program at George Brown College where she was lucky to have the opportunity to work with such brilliant theatre artists and creatives. Karly is an Arts Educator for The Harbourfront Centre, where she teaches dance and theatre fundamentals to students from all over the GTA. Chosen previous fight direction credits: August Osage County (Oshawa Little Theatre),If We Were
Birds, Better Living(Alumnae Theatre), The Complete Work of Shakespeare Abridged (Revised) (Again)(Theatre on the Ridge). Chosen previous acting credits: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (STC/YES
Theatre) Innocence Lost, Punch Up, The Living End: Madame Winnifred’s
Circus of Wonders (Theatre on the Ridge), Boom Baby, Nested (Alumnae Theatre), Three Sisters & Co., The Corsican Complaint, Love and
Information (George Brown Theatre School). Upcoming: Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (STC/YES Theatre). Instagram is @karlyfriesen. Enjoy the show!
Adrian Marchesano
Adrian Marchesano is a Toronto-based artist hailing from Oakville, Ontario. He is a George Brown Theatre School graduate and an alumnus of Brock University, where he studied Theatre Arts and Performance. Adrian is thrilled to return to Theatre on the Ridge for his third summer.
Selected credits include: Tales of the Grotesque (White Mills Theatre Co.),
Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Innocence Lost, The Living End (Theatre on The Ridge), Paradise Lost (George Brown), Panatalone’s Palace (Brock University).
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