VIRGILIA GRIFFITH CALLED TO THE BAR AGAIN
Virgilia Griffith Unguarded in the Tarragon’s Guarded Girls By Stephen Weir In a city where there are scads more actors and actresses than there are roles to perform in, there is one person on stage who is very very different. The standout star is Toronto’s Virgilia Griffith, a young woman who has been constantly employed – plays, dance performances, and TV roles – since graduating from Ryerson’s Theatre Program some eight years ago. In the last year the Caribbean Camera has strongly praised her work in three different plays - Soulpepper’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Tarragon’s Harlem Duet, and Obsidian’s Other Side Of The Game. Now she winning standing O’s in Tarragon’s Extra Space co-starring in Guarded Girls, an all-women 90-minute play about the horrors of prison. It is a brand new work by Governor General’s Literary Award nominee Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman. It stars Griffith, Col...