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OUR MANDATE:
KICK Theatre is devoted to producing catalytic, dynamic theatre that reintroduces audiences to the cathartic power of the stage. We reignite controversial classical works by examining them through a contemporary lens and infusing them with a parallel dynamic that resonates with our generation. We are committed to developing new works that investigate current and critical issues and to the promotion of theatre as a bold and aggressive tool for self-expression and change.
OUR VISION:
Quite simply, we want to create the sort of theatre that we like to see as audience members - theatre that is brave and daring and that has the power to change our frame of reference. Theatre that isn't comfortable and safe but provocative and affecting. A night at the theatre should be an enriching and transformational experience and it is KICK's aim to provide that for its audiences with each and every endeavour.
OUR HISTORY:
KICK was formed by Melee Hutton and Christine Horne in 2006.
MELEE HUTTON - Artistic Director
 Melee was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating with the James Bridie Medal and the Citizen's Theatre Award. Selected acting credits in the UK include Our Country's Good, Popcorn, Gibraltar Straight, Weldon Rising, Disappeared (London's West End), Juno and the Paycock, ON, Lady Betty (The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain), and Julie Johnson (London New Play Festival Best Actress Award). Canadian credits include The Doll House (DVxT), Pericles (Festival of Classics), Mom's Favourite Jesus (Buddies), Straight as a Line (Summerworks), The Seagull (Wordsmyth), Shakuntala (Pleides Theatre, dir. Charles Roy), and Creon (Stone Circle Project, dir. Vikki Anderson). Melee has also worked extensively in film and television, including Beautiful People, which won Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and the upcoming Love and Savagery. She holds an MFA in Acting from York University and a Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Acting, also from York. Upcoming directing: Miss Julie for KICK and The Menaechmi for The Stone Circle Project. Melee also teaches at The Professional Actors Lab in Toronto and for York University.
CHRISTINE HORNE - Artistic Producer
 Christine is a Toronto-based actor, producer, and occasional director. As Artistic Co-Director of The Thistle Project, she co-created and performed in Gorey Story which received four 2007 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production. Stage credits include Twelfth Night (Resurgence Theatre Co.), Bluebeard (Toronto Fringe), The Seagull and Julius Caeser (Wordsmyth), Summit Conference (Umbrella), Where's My Money? and Absolution (Column 13) and Interior (Summerworks). She directed Nelly Boy at the 2007 Summerworks Festival. Christine made her feature film debut in The Stone Angel, for which she was nominated for a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award (Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film) and the Geraldine Page Best Actress Award (Method Fest, California). She was also recently seen and heard as Desdemona in Othello for CBC Television and Radio One. Christine holds a BFA in Acting from York University. |
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