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Post National by Deborah Pearson, Ross Manson and Kate Alton

a new work devised by students under the mentorship of an international collaboration between UK- based artist Deborah Pearson, and the remarkable Volcano, Toronto’s world renown boundary pushing theatre company. Post National is an innovative exploration of Canadian identity and citizenship in an increasingly populist world. In keeping with our mission to examine a significant …

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Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley

Here, Findley imagines an intimate meeting between a group of players and Queen Elizabeth I, who has ordered a command performance of Much Ado About Nothing as she awaits the execution of a former lover, the Earl of Essex. With wit and poetry, Findley explores the entanglement of love, desire, and gender identity.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), a beloved feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo & Juliet. What if Shakespeare’s tragedies were supposed to be comedies? This is the compelling question Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald invites audiences to consider in her 1988 Governor General’s Award-winning drama – a question that continues to intrigue thirty + years …

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Rochdale by David Yee

Rochdale is a historical fiction set in 1969, based on Toronto’s infamous experiment in co-operative housing and alternative education that was Rochdale College. Described as a “hippie haven” by the media of the time, Rochdale started as an idyllic sanctuary from capitalist institutions, but quickly devolved into a den of scandal, drugs and violence. The …

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