Coal Mine Theatre’s “Fulfillment Centre”

How do you find fulfillment? It’s different for everyone: some find it through their job, kids, passion projects, hobbies. But what happens when you can’t find that thing that fills you up? Or what used to give you that sense of fulfillment no longer does? The characters in Abe Koogler’s Fulfillment Centre are desperately trying…

Tarragon Theatre and Obsidian Theatre Company’s “a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)”

Have you ever overheard two people in a heated argument? And you know you shouldn’t listen, yet you can’t help but take sides based on what you’re hearing. debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, is a glorious ninety minutes of doing just this: observing three…

Theatre Gargantua’s “Dissonant Species”

On the largest scales, black hole mergers pluck notes on the fabric of spacetime itself, while vast pressure waves span galaxies over aeons. On the smallest, molecules and atoms vibrate trillions of times per second. And sitting squarely in between the gargantuan and the microscopic is humanity. Us. Why should we not suspect that sound…

Icarus Theatre’s “DNA”

“Like dead, dead?” “Yes.” “Proper dead, not living dead?” “Not living dead, yes.” “Are you sure?” How can they be sure? Did anyone see him, or was the vodka playing tricks with their eyes? Dennis Kelly’s disturbing and haunting DNA, directed by Erik Richards, is a story of a group of young people facing a…

Soulpepper Theatre Company’s “The Comeuppance”

Have you ever had that eerie impulse to look beyond the veil? To see what awaits for us on the other side? Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ The Comeuppance, directed by Frank Cox-O’Connell, allows audiences to do just that: to get a glimpse of what awaits five friends as they celebrate their 20th High School Reunion. Hauntingly accurate…

An Ex Machina Production, presented by Canadian Stage “The Far Side of the Moon”

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” – Carl Sagan “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Design: Robert Lepage, Costume Design: Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt Assistant Set Design: Marie-Claude Pelletier, Assistant Lighting Design: Bernard White, Puppet Design: Pierre Robitaille…