Meet the Bride & Groom; Our Story; Ceremony; Welcome! Search this site. Thomson attended University of Toronto's theatre school for her undergraduate. Welcome to Kristen Thompson and Lucas Thompson's Wedding Website! CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices | About CBC News. Get all the wedding help you need: a registry, website, inspirations, vendors and more! The Wedding Party: A Play About the Awkwardness of Watching Other People Get Married January 23, 2017 | Sarah Sahagian Instead of focusing on the couple in love, the play goes deep on the reverberations their wedding day has for everyone else. Were the characters, or any aspects of the story, drawn from personal experience? Thank you to my sister Nicole for planning essentially all of this wedding! We hear about what goes on backstage during Kristen Thomson's play "The Wedding Party" playing now at the NAC. by Kristen Thomson. While attending a dinner party, playwright Kristen Thomson overhears the hostess telling a story about a worst-case-scenario wedding. Back by popular demand, and on the heels of Kristen Thomson’s Dora nomination for Best New Play, The Wedding Party returns! The Wedding Party. One of the biggest hits of winter 2017, The Wedding Party is a comedy about two families, a wedding, mistaken identities, and love, that invite the audience to take a seat ringside on the big day. Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. Location: Martha Cohen Theatre at Arts Commons (North Side), 215 - 8 Avenue SW, Calgary. Kristen Thomson is an actor/playwright and the recipient of four Dora Awards, two ACTRA Awards, two Canadian Comedy Awards, a Genie, a Gemini and a Leo. ATP until Sept. 29. I was at a dinner party where the hostess described a wedding she attended. Directed by Chris Abraham. Besides the humour there is a current of tension running through it. From the award-winning creators of the beloved play I, Claudia, Kristen Thomson and director Chris Abraham comes a new comedy about two families, a wedding, mistaken identities, and love, love, love! Kristen Thomson, Tom Rooney and Jason Cadieux take a selfie at The Wedding Party. Profile by Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof. 10:53. Kristen Thomson, Tom Rooney and Jason Cadieux in The Wedding Party, a comedy that takes place at the reception of a marriage. Between family feuds, mistaken identities, an $8,000 bottle of champagne and a mind-blowing, character-swapping cast playing dozens of roles, The Wedding Party will have you both cringing in recognition and laughing in delight. Based on the characters created with Trish Lindström, Tony Nappo, Moya O’Connell, Tom Rooney, and Bahia Watson What inspired you to write this play? Thank you to our bridal party for your hilarious, unforgettable speeches and to our friends and family for celebrating the day with us. Kristen Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario in the year 1966. Kristen Thomson has focused her keen, observant eye on every cliché about weddings that go wrong and turns them on its ear.