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Assassinating
Thomson

Royal MTC
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​February 14, 2023 

7:00 pm.

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Link TO Bruce Horak Website
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      In ASSASSINATING THOMSON, critically acclaimed Legally Blind Performer/Creator Bruce Horak paints a 
portrait of the entire audience while interweaving his own story and the tale of celebrated 
Canadian painter Tom Thomson's unsolved murder. Art, politics, grief, comedy, triumph, ambition, 
love and murder are intertwined in a one-man tour-de-force as Horak tells his own fantastically 
inspiring tale and reveals the unique way he sees the world. Following the performance, the unique 
painting created during the show will be auctioned. Proceeds from the live auction will be donated 
to Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.

     Having lost over 90% of his eyesight to a childhood Cancer, Horak has navigated the world of the 
fully­ sighted his entire life. Bilateral Retinoblastoma is a cancer which appears on the retina of 
the eyes, the treatment of which left Horak completely blind in one eye, with extreme 
tunnel-vision, light sensitivity, floaters, and a cataract in the remaining eye. For the past 25 
years, Horak has pursued a career in the performing arts and has won numerous awards for his 
performance, writing, direction and creation. He has performed across Canada, the United States and 
Europe and became Star Trek's first blind actor when he played Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New 
Worlds first season in 2022.

  
  



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