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 topic each year through the choice of our
plays and symposiums, we have taken on the timely exploration of Worlds of Exile, a season of
plays exploring longing, belonging and displacement. With Worlds of Exile, we are reflecting on
aspects of the varied experience of persons who, either by choice or as a result of imposition, are
living outside their home of origin, are othered by virtue of colonial exile practices, who have
returned home only to find it unrecognizable, or who, as the children or grandchildren of exiles,
are living in two worlds.
More than 108 young people – a new group of 12 for each of our nine performances – are involved
in Post National as guest performers.