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4 unusual facts about Judith Thompson


Judith Thompson

She is also the sister of Bill Thompson, a Professor of Psychology who composed the music for a number of Judith's radio and stage plays.

She studied drama at Queen's and then studied acting at the National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) in Montreal.

While in a mask class at NTS, Thompson had developed the character Theresa, a mildly mentally-handicapped Aboriginal woman based on people she had met while working as an assistant social worker during the summers in Kingston, Ontario.

Productions of the play have been held in a wide variety of North American locations, including: Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Vancouver, but also Łódź, Poland.


Bryden MacDonald

MacDonald is also a theatre director, most noted for his productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie.

Tarragon Theatre

It has championed the work of Canadian playwrights David French, Michel Tremblay, Judith Thompson, Jason Sherman, Michael Healey and others, as well as productions of plays by canonical playwrights such as Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg.


see also

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.