After a devastating fire, Coal Mine Theatre has come back blazing. As opening night for ‘Yerma’ approaches, Diana Bentley and Ted Dykstra couldn’t be more grateful for the Coal Mine community’s support for their new venue.
Great art and generous donors, what more could a growing theatre company want?
When we spoke just after the fire, Coal Mine co-founder Diana Bentley was optimistic about the future. “Magic can come out of destruction,”Now, just four months later, it’s time for the magic to begin at Coal Mine’s new home. Simon Stone’s “Yerma,” directed by Bentley and featuring film and TV star Sarah Gadon, opens on Sunday and the Coal Mine team couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome audiences back into one of Toronto’s most exciting theatre spaces.
“There were no water lines in the basement of the new space of any kind,” said Ted Dykstra, the other co-founder of Coal Mine and Bentley’s husband. “Now there’s three washrooms!” “I made a personal promise to Gary that none of that money would be used for capital improvements,” said Dykstra. “He was explicit about that. That money goes into marketing and into artists’ pockets … we were able to raise enough money to pay for all this and then the Slaight money can be perfectly placed elsewhere.“Yerma” marks a number of firsts for Coal Mine: the first show in the new space, for one. But it will also be Bentley’s directorial debut.
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