“a show you simply have to see” – Janine Marley, A View from the Box
Actors of 2023 Ontario summer tour Corporate Finch. From Left: Rainbow Kester as Corporate Finch and Matthew Ivanoff as Jacob Snider. (GG photo)
It’s midnight in St. Jacobs, Ontario, and two local teenagers are breaking into an old abandoned factory. Will both of them make it out alive? Better come see for yourself! This critically acclaimed new one act thriller was one of three winners of Flush Ink Production’s 22 hour horror playwrighting contest.
Human Voices Wake Us is an operatic romp of sparkling new works from Taylor Marie Graham, Kevin Andrew Heslop and Publius Fraxineus Tego, and illustrations by Andrés Garzon Espitia.
This publication includes Corporate Finch!
From play excerpts to poetic monologues and dialogues, this anthology surveys wrestling with the disarranged landscape of sleep from which one is suddenly fastened open and expected to act, or may drown otherwise. Title from T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
“CORPORATE FINCH is a dark, weird little play, by turns psychological, theological, and ornithological” – Louis Train, Our Theatre Voice
“A moody, twisty drama from playwright Taylor Marie Graham that plays beautifully with space, light, and sound, Corporate Finch was the highlight of our first day at Fringe. It’s as moving as it is scary, anchored by two excellent performances” – Kelly Bedard, My Entertainment World
Actors of Corporate Finch on stage at Here For Now Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, in 2024. From Left: Matthew Ivanoff as Jacob Snider and Rainbow Kester as Corporate Finch. (Sarah Lappano photo)
“Corporate Finch gives us an intriguingly oddball psychological thriller . . . strong performances . . . keep us guessing as to who’s the monster . . . genuine creepiness.” – Ilana Lucas, Broadway World
Actors of Corporate Finch Edmonton Fringe Production. From Left: Lucy Sanci as Corporate Finch and Emmet Logue as Jacob Snider. (GG photos)
“Taylor Marie Graham has written a dramatic tale that slowly evolves and grips us on the way . . . steadily spooky” – Lynn Slotkin, Slotkin Letter
Actors of Corporate Finch on stage at Here For Now Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, in 2024. From Left: Matthew Ivanoff as Jacob Snider and Rainbow Kester as Corporate Finch. (Sarah Lappano photo)
“brilliance in the simplicity . . . If you’re into eerily suspenseful plays about teenage misdeeds in small town, Ontario, then I think you’ll find that Corporate Finch is just the ticket” – Quinton, CJRU 1280
“This grisly two-hander by playwright Taylor Marie Graham is well-performed and well-directed . . . “Corporate Finch” follows Jacob (Matthew Ivanoff) and Finch (Rainbow Kester), two best friends (or so it seems) who break into an abandoned factory in rural Ontario. As written by Graham, the characters are complex and enigmatic, toying with the audience to gain its trust“ – Joshua Chong, Toronto Star
Actors of Corporate Finch Edmonton Fringe Production. From Left: Lucy Sanci as Corporate Finch and Emmet Logue as Jacob Snider. (GG photos)
“Graham’s script and the persuasive performances meander gently through a subtly haunting interaction. We’re drawn inexorably into the sweet, awful and outright traumatic accumulation of events leading to where they are now . . . Who is in control and how is always in flux. Just as we settle into an understanding of their situation, the nature of it shifts . . . had me on the edge of my seat. This is a tender, disturbing mediation on youthful connection and the precarious phenomenon of trust.” – Istvan Dugalin, Istvan Reviews
Actors of Corporate Finch on stage at the Schneider House Historic Site at MT Space’s IMPACT’23 Festival in Kitchener, Ontario, in 2024. From Left: Lucy Sanci as Corporate Finch and Matthew Ivanoff as Jacob Snider. (GG photos)
“CORPORATE FINCH is a dark, weird little play, by turns psychological, theological, and ornithological . . . nods to horror classics like Stephen King’s MISERY and newer works like Emerald Fennell’s thrilling 2020 film PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN . . . CORPORATE FINCH is a fine show, a solid exemplar of an under-explored theatrical sub-genre that shines a flickering, ‘warehousey’ light on two fabulously talented young actors.”
– Louis Train, Our Theatre Voice
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Enormous thanks Flush Ink Performing Arts and the Waterloo Regional Arts Fund for getting this piece of the ground December 2022 and to the Ontario Arts Council for your continued support recommended by Blyth Festival Theatre and Theatre Gargantua.
TAYLOR MARIE GRAHAM 