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CUTLASS SPRING

November 24, 2019

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE “Michel’s entrancing and determined weirdness [is] engrossing… [Her] aptitude in using her body as metaphor, and in integrating objects into her world, is astonishing.” —Cult MTL Dana Michel gives us […]

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Anywhere But Here

November 24, 2019

Anywhere But Here performance

PRESENTED WITH ELECTRIC COMPANY THEATRE “A marvelous machine of creativity” —The Globe and Mail From North to South, a family reverses the refugee’s path in this darkly humorous vision of exile. The action is set […]

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A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling

November 22, 2019

A User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling performance man holding record player

“[T]he creator manages to bring the past to life, to question the present, and even to formulate some hopes for the future.”  —Le Devoir After 20 years with PME-ART, co-artistic director Jacob Wren felt he […]

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Cuckoo

November 21, 2019

Cuckoo performance

Please note: The curtain time for the performance on Wednesday, February 5th was incorrectly published in our program guide. All performances are at 8PM. Jaha Koo folds 20 years of South Korean history into this […]

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This is the Point

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE CULTCH This “play about love, sex, and disability” runs the gamut from joyous celebration to unflinching drama as it paints a collective portrait of real-life individuals whose lives have been touched by […]

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salt.

November 14, 2018

UPDATE JAN 27, 10AM:  We’re happy to confirm that this afternoon’s matinee performance of salt. is going ahead as scheduled! If you had a ticket to Friday or Saturday night’s performances that you have not […]

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Prince Hamlet

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH UBC THEATRE AND FILM IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Thursday Jan 24th performance of Prince Hamlet had to be cancelled due to the sudden illness of a performer. If you have not yet exchanged your […]

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Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH TOUCHSTONE THEATRE A concert, a conversation and a multimedia performance all in one, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is the meeting point for two people—Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry—and two […]

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