Alumnae’s 2014 - 2015 Season
2014 - 2015 Season Overview · The Plays:
Escape From Happiness
by George F. Walker September 26-October 11, 2014 A bizarre event in a dysfunctional family prompts an incident of brutality in this intensely dark ORIGINAL Canadian comedy. Part of Walker’s East End Trilogy, this play explores the most tender moments at the most violent times. Read More... > |
FireWorks Festival 2014
November 12-30, 2014 After last year’s explosive success, FireWorks is back with two more ORIGINAL, full-length plays developed at Alumnae Theatre. A festival of creativity, FireWorks will also feature discussion panels, playwright talkbacks and a writing intensive led by a well-known playwright. Read More... > |
Blood Relations
by Sharon Pollock January 23-February 7, 2015 In this Governor General’s Award–winning play, Sharon Pollock’s ORIGINAL perspective takes us on a psychological journey, bringing the past to life in a search for a possible answer, a motive. The only suspect, the real Lizzie Borden, was acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother, but in Blood Relations, the chilling question still repeats. Read More... > |
New Ideas Festival 2015
March 11-29, 2015 Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival is a three-week, juried celebration of new writing, works-in- progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays each week and staged readings on Saturdays at noon. New Ideas is a crucible for ORIGINAL plays, some of which have gone on to full productions elsewhere. As such, they are must-sees for avant-garde Toronto theatre-goers. Read More... > |
I Am Marguerite
by Shirley Barrie April 10-25, 2015 1542: For choosing love over duty, Marguerite de Roberval was banished to the Isle of Demons off the north coast of Newfoundland. After two years on the desolate island and driven half mad by loneliness, hardship and memories, she now has a chance of rescue. Join us for the world première of this ORIGINAL play based on a true story in Canadian history. Read More... > |