Thursday, October 15 • Friday, October 16
6pm
Saturday, October 17
2pm
Victoria College Campus
Performance at the south entrance of Victoria College
Rain Locations
October 15 & 16: Victoria College 115
October 17: Emmanuel College 119
Banned in 1530 and never shown in its own time, Cornelis Everaert’s The Play of the Fluctuating Currency is a shockingly relevant early modern Dutch play presented in a brand new English translation by Charlotte Steenbrugge and Else Streitman. Join us to give this play new life atop one of PLS’s replica medieval pageant wagons!
The performance is free. (But you can learn more about supporting PLS here.)
Directed by Dylan Coley.
Where there’s profits to be made,
Here by lowering, there by raising rates,
There follows misery, to put it straight.
For merchants cheat to make their take.
PLS (Poculi Ludique Societas) sponsors productions of early plays, from the beginnings of medieval drama to as late as the middle of the seventeenth century. The group had its origins in 1964-65 in a seminar on medieval drama conducted at the University of Toronto. For more than forty years, PLS has been associated with the university’s Centre For Medieval Studies, offering a regular schedule of plays every year. Now, as part of the Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre, PLS operates in affiliation with the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. PLS has toured in Canada, the United States and Europe. PLS also collaborates with the theatre history research project Records of Early English Drama (REED) at the University of Toronto.
