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August 2019
Lunenburg by Norm Foster
When Iris Oulette inherits a house that she didn’t even know existed, she and her close friend, Natalie Whitaker, travel to the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to have a look at her new property. What follows is a series…
Find out more »The Russian Play by Hannah Moscovitch
A small-town flower girl falls for a gravedigger in Stalinist Russia. What can go wrong? Well, it’s a Russian play, so: everything. This edgy, wildly original homage to the plays of the great Russian playwrights will first make you laugh,…
Find out more »The Boy in the Moon by Emily Sher
A FATHER'S SEARCH FOR HIS DISABLED SON Based on the award-winning memoir by Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon illuminates the journey of a couple raising a child with disabilities caused by a rare genetic…
Find out more »Boy Trouble by Mac Brock
Meet me in Mayview Park. Mayview is where Kay has plenty of firsts. Tonight, it's where he's waiting. Boy Trouble is a sharp and surprising story exploring queer coming-of-age through secret texts, anonymous sex, and the questions of what makes…
Find out more »Buying the Farm by Shelley Hoffman & Stephen Sparks
Magnus Bjornson, an old bachelor farmer, finds himself with mounting debt and suburban neighborhoods encroaching from every direction. Brad, a young real estate agent arrives at the farm determined to succeed where others have failed. But chores, skunks and ants…
Find out more »September 2019
The Trophy Hunt by Trina Davies
An exploration of who eats who. Parker has waited his whole life for this trip. Jan follows this same path and makes this same trip every day – there is still some enjoyment in nature. Soraya wishes they’d all leave…
Find out more »The Last Wife by Kate Hennig
A spirited and powerful examination of patriarchy, sexual politics and women’s rights. A complicated marriage, a secret relationship and one woman’s fight for education and equal rights of her husband’s daughters puts her life on the line. The complex union…
Find out more »Fling by Melody Anderson
Lynnie and Barb, two sisters in their 60s, arrive at their childhood home to sort through the belongings of their recently deceased mother. As details about their family history are peeled away, increasingly startling discoveries are made, and cracks in…
Find out more »Broken Branches by Lorene Stanwick
Siblings. They are our friends, our role models and rivals. They define who we are, perhaps more than our parents. We grow up together. They get inside our heads. What happens when we can’t get them out …? Rachel runs…
Find out more »FemFest 2019 – Leaping off the Page
FemFest 2019 celebrates 17 years with a special closing event featuring festival guest artist Yvette Nolan (Algonquin). Nolan is a celebrated playwright, director, and dramaturg. She will read from her work alongside local Winnipeg playwrights who will have spent an…
Find out more »Leaping Off the Page By Yvette Nolan
FemFest 2019 celebrates 17 years with a special closing event featuring festival guest artist Yvette Nolan (Algonquin). Nolan is a celebrated playwright, director, and dramaturg. She will read from her work alongside local Winnipeg playwrights who will have spent an…
Find out more »Frog Song: An Opera for Children By Taylor Marie Graham & William Rowson
An Opera for Children, Frog Song follows Navdeep and Wyatt as they chart their way through the loss of a parent, peer-pressure, and female empowerment — all toward finding their true voice. A giant wall of frogs and a mythic skeletal bird…
Find out more »October 2019
Theory by Norman Yeung – American Premiere
"Theory" by Norman Yeung makes its American Premiere with Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C., directed by Victoria Murray Baatin. The Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize-winning play had its World Premiere in October, 2018, produced by Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.…
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