PuSh Blog

Wayqeycuna

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.

Presenting Supporter: The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund Memory // Ancestry // Resistance Like a quipu—the intricate system of knotted cords used by Andean peoples to record memory and knowledge—Wayqeycuna traces Argentinean artist Tiziano Cruz’s path back […]

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Trouble Score

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers stand close to each other, eyes looking upward pensively between beams of blue light, filled with swirling haze. One reaches her fingers into the light, like dipping into another realm.

Magic Realism // Myth // Ritual Part ritual, part pop concert, Trouble Score is a hallucinatory portrait of family myth refracted through the lens of magic realism. Weaving multi-layered text, vocals, sound samples, and live […]

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TESTO

November 12, 2025

Image description: A trans-masculine drag artist stands on a dark stage, holding an LED-sign where the word "now" glows red. Their bald head is turned in profile, with a checkerboard smile painted across their face. They wear a billowing white coat made of luxuriously gauzy material, which hangs open, exposing a flat, muscular chest.

Mess // Desire // Becoming TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow […]

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SLUGS

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers with expressions of frozen panic crouch towards each other. Dressed in bold colours with bright eyeshadow and drawn-on moustahces, each one cups the other's face between their hands.

Anarchic // Absurdist // Cathartic It’s about nothing. We promise. From the award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger), this anarchic fever dream is a techno-punk concert, a play, a clown show, […]

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Le Beau Monde

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two men hold each other like teens at a highschool dance. They pucker their lips, but turn their heads away from eachother, towards the audience. Behind them, a third performer watches anxiously.

Ritual // Nostalgia // Absurdity In the future, theatre no longer exists. Neither do elections, football, or kissing. Or, at least not as it used to be. Three people stand before us—awkward, uncertain, sincere. They’ve […]

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Kiuryaq

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two figures are silouetted on a ridge against the bright background of the northern lights, which fills the sky with glowing greens and pinks.

Wed Jan 28 // 8PM7PM Pre-Show Artist Talk & Reception Light // Ancestry // Connection The Northern Lights have always carried stories—frightening, spiritual, epic, and playful. Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with […]

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Khalil Khalil

November 12, 2025

Image description: A young man stares out from stage with intensity holding a microphone. His eyes have no colour, giving him the appearance of being haunted. Warm light bathes his olive skin.

Memory // Inheritance // Individuality How does a name shape a destiny? Khalil Albatran was named for his brother, a martyr of the First Palestinian Intifada. In a family where the name carries both honour […]

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Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience

November 07, 2025

Image description: On a pitch black stage, three women's faces are illuminated from below with flashlights. Their shadowy expressions are serious, as though peering into an unknown darkness.

Empathy // Resilience // Fragility In Eight Short Compositions on the Lives of Ukrainians for a Western Audience, the political becomes profoundly personal.  Drawn from the words of Ukrainian playwright Anastasiia Kosodii, this delicate yet […]

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