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January 2020
Launching Fiction Podcast: The Familiar by Maggie Sulc
The Familiar, a new anthology fiction podcast written/co-produced/co-directed by Maggie Sulc, launches its first season on January 6, 2020. A new episode will release each Monday through February 24, 2020. The podcast will be freely available wherever you listen to…
Find out more »Mother’s Daughter by Kate Hennig
Keep your enemies close, and your family closer. The Tudor throne is empty, and three would-be Queens contend for the crown. Sisters turn against each other in a deadly struggle that threatens to tear the country apart. With Hennig’s trademark style…
Find out more »Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes by Hannah Moscovitch
WORLD PREMIERE “Do you know you’re coming on to me?” An author and star professor, wracked with self-loathing after a third divorce, catches himself admiring a student – a girl in a red coat. Turns out the girl is a…
Find out more »The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius by Colleen Murphy
The Society for the Destitute Theatre Network is pleased to welcome The Society For The Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius. With their shockingly dark and deranged humour, this award-winning troupe is known to get audiences laughing so hard they lose their…
Find out more »This Was the World by Ellie Moon
World Premiere “I’m no longer sure what’s allowed.” John, a 60-something white professor of Constitutional Law and Indigenous Rights is unhappy with a new faculty hire. He seeks to draw a student into his conflict with the Dean’s office, which…
Find out more »Paradise Lost by Erin Shields
In the role of a lifetime written especially for her, Canadian stage icon Lucy Peacock is Satan … as we’ve never seen Satan before. Seductive in snakeskin and as slick as a hi-tech guru, she makes a case for her…
Find out more »Lady Sunrise by Marjorie Chan
A Factory production Money is ridiculous isn't it? It gets in the way of everything, it's everywhere. It can save a life, or ruin it all in the same breath. Set in Canada's condo and casino playground of Vancouver, this hard-hitting new…
Find out more »The Neverending Story by David S. Craig
Embark on the quest of a lifetime. Hiding in an attic to avoid school bullies, a strangely magical book falls into the hands of ten-year-old Bastian: the tale of a hero’s quest to save the world of Fantastica from the…
Find out more »This is How We Got Here by Keith Barker
Meet Lucille, Paul, Liset and Jim. Best friends, sisters, spouses – stumbling in the dark one year after a tragic loss. They struggle to find each other again, when a mysterious fox shows up with a curious gift. Simultaneously heartbreaking…
Find out more »Reasonable Doubt by Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
WORLD PREMIERE About our community. Spoken by our community. A controversial court decision rocks Saskatchewan, unleashing pent up mistrust, pain and anger. The need for us to speak our truth becomes undeniable in the aftermath of Colten Boushie’s tragic death.…
Find out more »February 2020
Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre
World Premiere A family. A border wall. A million memories and the quest for home. It’s 2020 at the US/Mexico border in Trump’s America. In 1979, a family drives back towards Chile from Canada. With past, present, and future encircling…
Find out more »Controlled Damage by Andrea Scott
Disrupting the status quo The world premiere of Controlled Damage explores the life of Viola Desmond, and how her act of bravery in a New Glasgow, NS movie theatre started a ripple effect throughout society. The play shines a light on how…
Find out more »Secret Life of a Mother by Hannah Moscovitch
A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood: a confessional piece about her own darkly funny and taboo-breaking truths. One of her real-life friends, an actress, performs this story, and through it her own motherhood secrets start to surface. These…
Find out more »Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story by Hannah Moscovitch
Humourously dark story-theatre with a high-energy concert, Old Stock debuted in Halifax and has become an international sensation, also enjoying a wildly popular seven-week run Off-Broadway. The play tells the true story of Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents, who landed on Pier 2 as…
Find out more »CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths
After 63 years, the Beacon Hill Body remains a Vancouver Island cold-case murder. Forensic toxicologist Grace Godard thinks her scientific expertise is leading her close to an answer, closer than anyone has come before. But when she meets Aqeel Saleemi,…
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