Written and Performed by Kristen Thomson
Directed by Chris Abraham
This award winning Canadian gem maps the raw, but beautiful interior life of a misfit adolescent. Claudia, age twelve-and-three-quarters, finds herself suffering from the triple afflictions of puberty, unpopularity, and her parents’ divorce. Using four astonishingly expressive masks Kristen Thomson evokes the anguished Claudia, her grandfather, her dad’s new girlfriend, and the school janitor. Both heartbreakingly sad and wrenchingly funny, I, Claudia casts a spell of rare power in the theatre.
I, Claudia was first developed, and premiered with a sold-out run, at Toronto’s Tarragon
Theatre in 2001. Winning 2 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Best New Play and Best
Performance, it has since been developed into an award-winning film (also starring Kristen Thomson and directed by Chris Abraham), which received two Gemini Awards, an ACTRA award, two Canadian Comedy Awards, and was named by the Toronto International Film Festival Group as “one of the 10 best films of 2004.”
