PuSh Blog

Same Difference

November 14, 2023

A wide shot of a stage bathed in purple and pink lights. A man’s face is projected onto screens facing each other.

Immerse yourself in a world of mirrors, projections and digital performances with this fascinating mixed-media performance installation led by David Mesiha. We are plunged into ever shifting cognitive and spatial perspectives as we step into […]

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Returns

November 14, 2023

A person standing in an uneven stance with one leg far behind the other. The person is wearing a shirt that is pulled over their head and torso, and red socks with holes in them.

Note: This installation is open to the public from Jan 7–Feb 3. Visitors are free to come and go during the installation’s opening hours.  An imaginative convergence of dance, labour and garment fabrication, Returns is […]

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Dear Laila

November 14, 2023

A woman smiling and curiously sniffing a jar full of herbs. She appears to be looking at an ornate box containing letters, a stack of cards, a small diorama of a building, a tabletop cactus, and a tiny jar.

“Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” The seeds of this […]

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asses.masses

November 14, 2023

A wideshot of a person facing a projection on a stage. The projection is a glowing blue square pattern. There are light blue shards floating out from the square. The person is standing in the front row, with their arms slightly lifted on their sides.

The unemployed donkeys have one demand: the humans must surrender their machines and give all donkeys their jobs back. But revolution is never easy! asses.masses is a custom-made video game about labour, technophobia and sharing […]

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The Café

November 04, 2022

Different choices of tea and coffee

Here is an invitation to be a voyeur, to eavesdrop on private conversations, to witness intimate relationships up close and personal. The Café invites audiences to explore seven vignettes by nine playwrights of various ethnicities, […]

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Gardens Speak

November 24, 2019

Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury Performance

“Extraordinary, and emotionally wrenching.” —The New York Times In today’s Syria, oppression and violence are so far-reaching that even burial and mourning have become subversive acts. In this immersive sound installation, artist Tania El Khoury […]

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Monday Nights

November 24, 2019

Richard Lee and Darrel Gamotin in Monday Nights

PRESENTED WITH ANVIL CENTRE “If you want to find a new way to channel your We The North spirit, check out Monday Nights.” —The Globe and Mail Who you are on the court reveals who […]

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The Fever

November 24, 2019

The Fever performance people standing with arms raised

“A lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection … A poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken––and un-called upon––dependence on one another.” —The New York Times How much can we trust other people? How do […]

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