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November 2019
Bang Bang by Kat Sandler
Lila is a Black former police officer whose career ended after she shot an unarmed Black youth. Her story is fictionalized by Tim, a white playwright whose play about the shooting takes liberties with the facts. Now there’s talk of…
Find out more »Belle Darling Klondike Queen by Natalie Frijia
What a time it was! The Klondike 1898, and the dream of gold was in every heart. Among the dreamers, vaudevillian queen Kate Rockwell, alias Belle Darling, alias Klondike Kate — grifter, pickpocket, and occasional lifesaver in a lawless land.…
Find out more »Tapwewin- Her Inquiry by Maria Campbell, Yvette Nolan, Marilyn Poitras, & Cheryl Troupe
A response to the ongoing, frustrating MMIWG inquiry, Tapwewin opens the inquiry to the voices who are not being heard: the teenager who was taken by North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in the 1800’s to service the man; the midwife who was vilified…
Find out more »Jake’s Gift by Julia MacKay
Honouring the legacy of remembrance. Produced by Juno Productions Multi-award-winning Jake’s Gift returns to Presentation House Theatre with a special Remembrance Day performance on Monday, November 11 at 2:00 pm. Described by playwright, Julia Mackey as a “love letter of thanks to…
Find out more »Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan
Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe playwright Frances Koncan combines humour with satire and history to deliver a poignant insight into the Canadian fur trade. As part of Animikiig Creators Unit, she has been working with mentors Jessica Carmichael and Lindsay Lachance for the past two years…
Find out more »Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice Adapted by Janet Munsil
The Resident Theatre produces family-friendly, professional-caliber shows in our community, engaging and inspiring young people as performers and theatre-goers. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Janet Munsil, opens November 8th. Purchase tickets here!
Find out more »Good Night Desdemona by Ann Marie MacDonald
Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a beloved feminist revisioning of two of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Othello and Romeo & Juliet. Written by Canadian playwright Ann Marie MacDonald, the play explores the hypothetical question: what if Shakespeare’s tragedies were actually intended…
Find out more »Alice’s Gift: The Life and Music of Alice Herz-Sommer by Elisabeth Wagner
“Music was our food.” Meet Alice Herz-Sommer, Jewish pianist from Prague who lived through WWII playing piano recitals in the Theresienstadt ghetto and who, at the time of her death in 2014 at 110 years of age, was the world’s…
Find out more »If the Shoe Fits by Genevieve Adam
Once upon time, there lived a brave knight who wasn’t aging well. Bored with domestic drudgery, he accepts an impossible commission from his Prince: find the mysterious woman who fits into the glass slipper. In his search for this reluctant…
Find out more »Persephone Bound by Léda Davies, Jed Tomlinson, & Michaela Jeffery
A co-production with Imago Theatre in association with Screaming Goats Collective Created by Léda Davies and Jed Tomlinson With additional text creation by Michaela Jeffery Developed in partnership with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal Directed by Micheline Chevrier “I am determined to…
Find out more »Portia’s Julius Caesar by Kaitlyn Riordan
Through the eyes of a Roman wife, Portia’s Julius Caesar uses a mix of new words and the rich poetry from over 20 of Shakespeare’s works to explore the role of women in classic story-telling, ancient Roman society and politics. Tickets
Find out more »December 2019
The December Man by Colleen Murphy
A performance, in partnership with the Dawson Peace Centre, to commemorate lives lost in the École Polytechnique shooting, and a fundraiser for Chez Doris, an organization supporting women survivors of gender-based violence. Tickets
Find out more »Every Day She Rose by Andrea Scott and Nick Green
The personal becomes political in this collaboratively created new work from playwrights Andrea Scott and Nick Green. When racial and queer politics collide at the 2016 Toronto Pride parade, two best friends discover that the things that brought them together…
Find out more »FADO – The Saddest Music in the World by Elaine Avila
By Elaine Avila, FADO is a tale of love and ghosts told through the saddest music in the world, Portuguese FADO. When Luisa goes to Portugal she discovers her mother’s favorite fado is fascist and when she meets her long…
Find out more »The Listening Room by Michaela Jeffery
At the heart of a forgotten society calling itself The Earie, young dissidents use radio telescopes to salvage fragments of earlier civilizations still ricocheting between stars. These 'Listeners' fight against growing pressure from the governing central Council, whose hold over…
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