Toronto CAMP – Branch Out Theatre CAMP, written and composed by Naomi Tessler, is a powerful, award-winning play that juxtaposes two 15 year old girls' experiences—Lila at Jewish sleepover camp in Canada and Greta- in Auschwitz- a concentration camp. This research and me-search informed play explores themes of womanhood, intergenerational trauma, sisterhood and resilience. Though…
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons – Theatre Aurinko The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we’re forced to say less. It’s about what we say and how we…
“Thank you for calling the New Bosford Question Centre. My name is Irving Irving...” Every call starts the same. But one day, Irving gets a query which will change the course of his life forever. Eric Woolfe’s latest creepy creation, Call Centre of Cthulhu pays homage to Lovecraft’s work while giving it the Eldritch treatment:…
Welcome Brothers! You have entered the hallowed halls of a Spanish Benedictine monastery where two of your fellow Brothers await you. They have a lovely day planned for you; it’s not every day they receive visitors, you know! Created and performed by Annie Luján and Veronica Hortigüela, MONKS is a journey into the chaotic, filled…
Prophetess – Tarragon Theatre Margaret, the Chair of her English Department — and the Queen of Etymology — snaps awake, haunted by a nightmare of spiders. As she confides in her love, Henry, over breakfast, that very same spider from her dream manifests — speaking, growling, and cursing her. And so begins the first day…
Dancer (A Musical In Ten Furlongs) - Oh What A Ride! Productions Dancer (A Musical In Ten Furlongs) is the story of Northern Dancer, the “horse nobody wanted” — the too-small, too-ungainly, too-willful thoroughbred who overcame doubt, injury and history to become the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1964, and capture…
O, thou well-skilled in curses, stay awhile, And teach me how to curse mine enemies. Margaret Anjou has spent her life learning about words: where they’ve come from, how they’ve transformed, and why they hold so much power. But when words are used against her, what can she do to stop their destructive power. Ho…
It begins with a bang. The sounds of gunshots and shouting ring out through the theatre as Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness starts its journey. It’s 1964, and this is one of the worst riots Harlem has ever seen. An artist sits alone in his studio, observing the chaos outside his window. But when…
Have you seen the ads for the new Meta AI “Muse”? I’ve been bombarded with them lately. “It’ll help sort out your inbox and clear your schedule” the ads claim, “it’ll shop for you!” Hang on, shop for me? Like Aye Caesar? Yes, just like Carolyn Fe’s existential thriller, a fiction no longer. Truly a…
Who are you drawn to? Is it people who look like you, or think like you? What about someone who’s charming or vivacious? Or maybe you’re drawn to those you think you can fix, those with “natural deficiencies”? Erin Shields’s To A Flame looks at the perils of being drawn in by someone who might…
