Lawyer Show 2012
Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Christine Brubaker, Michelle Alexander and Kelly Thornton
Starring a Cast of 35 Lawyers!
“Some lawyers kill with arrows, some with traps.”
– adapted from Much Ado About Nothing
The legal event of the year, The Lawyer Show is Nightwood Theatre’s annual fundraiser. This important event raises vital funds that go towards enhancing Nightwood’s productions and training programs. Each season Nightwood auditions and casts over 30 local lawyers and legal professionals and works with them for over 2 months rehearsing lines, dissecting text, choreographing dance sequences, blocking moves – all with the goal of having fun, entertaining our audiences and raising money!
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. Benedick and Beatrice are engaged in a “merry war”; they proclaim their scorn for love, marriage, and each other. In contrast, Claudio and Hero are sweet young people who are rendered practically speechless by their love for one another. By means of gossip, rumour, and overhearing, Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar. However, Dogberry, a Constable, discovers the evil trickery of the villain, the bastard Don John. In the end, Don John is captured and everyone else joins in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples.
THE LAWYER SHOW 2012 CAST of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING:
Anna Abbott, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Anusha Aruliah, Department of Justice Canada
Ashley Waye, Bales Beall LLP
Barbara Gordon, Kleinman Gordon | Family Law
Brent Vickar, Longley and Vickar LLP
Bronwyn Martin, Moodie Mair Walker LLP
Catherine Wiley, Direct Energy Marketing Limited
Charles Beall, Bales Beall LLP
Clare Barclay, United Steelworkers Local 1998
Diane Mason, Mitchell, Bardyn and Zalucky LLP
Doug Watters, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Eve Schwarz , Schwarz Family Law
Fredrick Schumann, Stockwoods LLP
Gavin Magrath, Magrath O’Connor
Heather Paterson, Shibley Righton LLP
Jay Nathwani, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Joyce Tam, Thomas Gold Pettingill LLP
Katie Wylde, Osgoode Hall Law School
Keri Bennett, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Llana Nakonechny, Dickson MacGregor Appell LLP
Luiz Arthur (Tuca) Bihari, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Margaret Cowtan, Law Society of Upper Canada
Michael Kleinman, Kleinman Gordon | Family Law
Nathan Higgins, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
Paul Bryant, RBC Capital Markets
Peter Hamiwka, Hrycyna Pothemont
Randall Telford, Randall D. Telford Barrister & Solicitor
Richard Lebkowski, Krylov & Company Barristers
Ryan Campbell, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Sabrina A Bandali, Heenan Blaikie LLP
Saroja Kuruganty, Kramer Barristers
Satinder Besrai, Ministry of the Attorney General
Shannon Seitz, McMillan LLP
Sheetal Rawal, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Shelley Hobbs, Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee
