The Jungle
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2023
- Subjects
- Canadian
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- May 2023
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Description
- Inspired by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle.
- This play paints a stark and realistic portrait of what it’s like to live in cities such as Toronto currently, especially as a young person battling late-stage capitalism.
- First produced by Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, in October 2019
About the authors
Anthony MacMahon is a Canadian playwright currently working in Toronto. His works include Animal Farm, The Voyager Concert, The Dead (Soulpepper), Trompe la Mort, and Wild Dogs on the Moscow Trains (SummerWorks). He was until recently a planning advisor to former city councillor Joe Cressy and is currently a project lead at the City of Toronto in Solid Waste Management. He’s honoured to be an alumni of the Soulpepper Academy, Concordia University, and the University of Saskatchewan.
Anthony MacMahon's profile page
Thomas McKechnie is a Toronto-based playwright and union organizer. They were a part of the 2013–2015 Soulpepper Academy as a writer. Writing credits include The Jungle (Tarragon Theatre, co-written with Anthony MacMahon), 12 Letters from Your Lover, Lost at Sea (with Hannah Kaya), Worm Moon (the Theatre Centre’s Residency Program), 4 1/2 (ig)noble truths (zeitpunktheatre/Why Not Theatre, presented in Toronto, Victoria, Vancouver and more), and Remembering the Winnipeg General (ziepunktheatre). They are a union organizer and a founding member of Artists for Climate and Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty.
Thomas McKechnie's profile page
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the globe. The author, or co-author, of, among other works, The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Daniel Brooks); Fronteras Americanas, The Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D., bloom; A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), and the controversial Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil (with Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef). He is a recipient of the Governor General’s AWard for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards, and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads, based on Fronteras Americanas and made with Ramiro Puerta.
He lives in Toronto with Tamsin Kelsey, his partner of many years, and their two children.
Awards and Recognition*
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1997) A Line the Sand with Marcus Youssef
Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, Community Recognition Award (1994)
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1994) Fronteras Americanas
Governor General’s Award for Drama (1993) Fronteras Americanas
Governor General’s Award for Drama, Finalist (1992) The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Daniel Brooks
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1992) The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Daniel Brooks
Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1990) i.d.
Editorial Reviews
“The Jungle is a boldly political new play, argumentative and direct and a bit radical. It is also a touchingly honest drama, brimming with humor and pathos.”
Louis Train, BroadwayWorld
“This play isn’t about Jack and Veronyka: their love story is the bait—well, let’s call it an invitation—for audiences to consider how it is that systems consistently fail decent people.”
Karen Fricker, Toronto Star
“A punch to the gut: very real and very much told with eyes wide open . . . It moved me and kept me thinking, long after curtain call.”
Isabella O’Brien, Mooney on Theatre
“[A] powerful political parable.”
Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine