Fifteen Dogs

Two years later, Fifteen Dogs is still paw-some. (Sorry.) But at Toronto’s CAA Theatre, Farsi’s production feels more poignant, more efficient and more raw.

Aisling Murphy
The Globe and Mail

As stirring as it is hilarious, Fifteen Dogs is one of the most deceptively profound shows of the theatre season — a moving exploration, through a canine lens, of what it means to be human.

Joshua Chong
Toronto Star

The talented artist who brought such haunting intensity to Crow’s Theatre’s production of Ghost Quartet four years ago has adapted – for the same company – André Alexis’s 2015 Giller Prize-winning novel Fifteen Dogs with whimsy, imagination and profundity.

Glenn Sumi
The Globe and Mail

Director/adaptor Marie Farsi has managed the impossible in bringing this Canadian literary masterpiece to the stage.
With Fifteen Dogs, she confirms my belief in her brilliance as a true original — a theatre craftsperson who creates her own conventions and rules.

Paula Citron

It’s ever faithful to the book, maintaining Alexis’s charming tone, and the production is so very smart in its design — Farsi’s chosen an in-the-round configuration, in which the audience sits on all sides of the theatre, peering down at the “dogs.” A clever choice for a play largely about predestination versus free will.

Aisling Murphy
Toronto Star