The year is 2419. Earth’s third planetary colony is still recovering from the Interstellar Wars, while the blood feud between Tysius and Yarro clans threatens to upset its delicate balance. Song of Chrysanthemums chronicles the heroic journey of Fabian Tysius, his torrid love affair with Elsa Yarro, and the unspeakable secret which threatens to tear …
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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), 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 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 …
Shadowed by war, Dido, Queen of Carthage is the original tragic love story with its hero Aeneas, the exiled prince of Troy, compelled by Fate to leave his beloved Dido, Queen of Carthage to fulfil a political destiny. Aeneas, the son of Venus, is one of the Trojans who escapes from the city after it is destroyed. …
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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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