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King Gilgamesh

by Jesse LaVercombe, Seth Bockley, & Ahmed Moneka
Directed by Seth Bockley
A Soulpepper & TRIA Theatre Co-Production 

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September 13 - October 5
Run Time: 90 minutes (no intermission)

King Gilgamesh

Two years after selling out its Canadian premiere, King Gilgamesh (And the Man of the Wild) returns to the Soulpepper stage for a limited, three-week engagement.
 
This raucous Dora-winning production weaves together the world's oldest epic with a modern Toronto bromance between an American Jew and Iraqi Muslim… all scored by Ahmed Moneka’s 2025 Juno-nominated six-piece Arabic-jazz band. 
 
Created and performed by Ahmed Moneka and Jesse LaVercombe and directed by NYC-based Seth Bockley, this show has sold out runs and received critical praise here in Toronto, as well as Minneapolis, Halifax, Chicago and NYC.
 
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Photo of Jesse LaVercombe & Ahmed Moneka. Photo by Dahlia Katz 

✭✭✭✭✭...a raucous, glorious celebration of what it means to be alive

- Glenn Sumi

...it blazes like a campfire piercing a sea of darkness

- NEXT Magazine

3.5/4 

- Toronto Star

...one of Soulpepper’s best pieces of programming of the past year... You’ll be grooving in your seats the whole time

- Intermission Magazine

Moneka and LaVercombe are flat-out superb

- Talkin' Broadway

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