Rose, 65, announced his impending retirement just days after Tarragon become the first major theatre in Toronto to say it wouldn’t be producing a live theatre season in 2020-2021
Richard Rose Rose will officially depart at the end of a rethought Tarragon Acoustic season that will mostly involve audio recordings of plays from the company’s history.Tarragon Theatre’s original plan was for artistic director Richard Rose to unveil a bursting-at-the-seams 50th anniversary season of new Canadian plays back in March – and then, shortly thereafter, announce that he was retiring.
Nestled in the Annex neighbourhood, Tarragon has been a place of modest renovations, rather than eye-catching capital campaigns – and Rose and his managing directors have focused on sustainability rather than growth. His seasons mixed together Canadian works by emerging playwrights with veterans to whom he is loyal – occasionally with a classic or contemporary international hit thrown in.In an exclusive exit interview this week, Rose cited a trio of shows staged from 2006 to 2007 as highlights of his tenure – a selection with which no theatre critic would disagree.
When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, Tarragon felt effects on its attendance – and the theatre went through years that seemed perhaps a little more miss than hit artistically. But it has been on an upswing again in audience and acclaim.
In the 2015-2016 season, while Canadian Stage’s then artistic director Matthew Jocelyn was being criticized with the hashtag #CanStageSoWhite, Tarragon actually had an even less inclusive line-up of directors and playwrights, but Rose was not called out by the theatre community in the same way.
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