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Gordon McCall has programmed a diverse and entertaining season for the Centaur, building on what he calls Maurice Podbrey's legacy of "...one of the best selected repertoires in the country in terms of a regional theatre." McCall indicates that the upcoming season involves "very well-written plays with major ideas, strong conflicts...and issues".
Gordon McCall was born in Dorchester, a small community just east of London, Ontario. After attending the University of Western Ontario, Queens and the University of British Columbia, McCall embarked on an acting/directing career with an emphasis on the works of Shakespeare. McCall has written that Shakespeare's great stories, unforgettable characters and amazing language are a trampoline to launch the imagination through time and space, across time zones and generations.
Opportunity did not knock at the Stratford Festival, however, and McCall returned to western Canada, becoming the first artistic director of Winnipeg's Prairie Theatre Exchange. He later found himself in Saskatoon, and after years of performing improv theatre in a thing called The Saskatoon Soaps, McCall's drive and independence led him to...