Talk Is Free Theatre
(Theatres)
As an artist-driven company, our mandate is to support the emerging artistic community by producing a wide range of ensemble-based, off-centre, inventive and rare programming.
(Theatres)
TIFT was formed in Toronto in 2001 by Arkady Spivak, its current Artistic Producer and four other founding members as an artist-driven theatre company. As a reaction to the prevailing theatre practice in Canada, our plans were to follow the European repertory theatre tradition. We wanted to program repertoire with the goal of challenging a predetermined ensemble of actors, rather than producing work strictly on the merits of the script. Our producing approach was not to explore one given style, form or issue, but to focus primarily on a creative ensemble capable of tackling anything from experimental drama to musical comedy.
