the idiot

June 2008

James Fagan Tait and Joelysa Pankanea, the award-winning team behind Crime and Punishment and A Christmas Carol, bring you an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's epic The Idiot.

Developed in association with the Playwrights Theatre Centre

ali and ali vii

Written by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai

The boys are back, or rather, stuck awaiting deportation. The team that examined U.S. foreign policy bring the same no-holds-barred vision home to Canada, examining our nation's security certificates and detention policies. Satire in the age of Maher Arar.

mixie and the halfbreeds

Written by Julie Tamiko Manning and Adrienne Wong

Two estranged neighbours are not as far apart as they think. Eggs. Bananas. An aversion to rice. Oh, and a talking plant. Developed in association with Playwrights Workshop Montreal.

are we there yet?

coming in the 2008/09 season
A fun and highly interactive play and workshop which assists teens to develop healthy sexual relationships. The project is a five-year, interdisciplinary, nationally focused initiative involving 4 theatre companies from across Canada, the two playwrights, 5 health organizations, and social science and drama researchers from 3 universities.  For more information on the Are We There Yet? CURA project, click here.

Are We There Yet partners: Concrete Theatre Society, Guysborough Youth Health and Services Centre, Jane Heather (Playwright), Kenneth Williams (co – playwright), Mulgrave Road Theatre, Native Counselling Services of Alberta, neworldtheatre, Planned Parenthood Association of Edmonton, Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, University of Alberta, University of BC, University of Guelph.