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          • If the Shoe Fits
        • The Trip to Bountiful
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Alumnae's 2016 - 2017 Season


​2016 - 2017 Season Overview · The Plays:

2016 - 2017 Season of Alumnae Theatre: This, The Gut Girls, The Clean House, FireWorks Festival 2016, New Ideas Festival 2017
THIS - Alumnae Theatre
THIS
​by Melissa James Gibson
Directed by Rebecca Ballarin
September 16 - October 1, 2016 
on the Mainstage


​Four friends since college struggle with questions of marriage, loss, love, and loyalty. Sitting on the edge between comedic and painful, THIS dives into the anxieties and insecurities of five messy, imperfect--real--people. The New York Times called this 2010 play by Canadian-born Melissa James Gibson a “tart, melancholy comedy about a group of close friends entering the choppy waters of middle age.” ​ 
Read more about the play, THIS
THE GUT GIRLS - Alumnae Theatre
The Gut Girls
​by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Maya Rabinovitch
January 20 - February 4, 2017
​on the Mainstage


Surprisingly funny and hard-hitting, this beautifully written piece follows the fortunes of the brash and proud working-class gut girls. When the gutting sheds are shut and their way of life disappears,
the girls must try and find a place in the new world order of late Victorian London.
Read more about, The Gut Girls
THE CLEAN HOUSE - Alumnae Theatre
The Clean House
​​by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ali Joy Richardson
April 7 - 22, 2017
​on the Mainstage


After the unusual death of her parents, aspiring comedian Matilde
moves from Brazil to Connecticut to clean the house of married doctors.
When the husband falls in love with a patient, the household is thrown
into a messy (and sometimes magical) whirlwind of hilarity and heartache.  

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Clean House is a fearlessly honest
and wildly funny look at class, comedy, and the nature of love.
Read more about, The Clean House
FIREWORKS FESTIVAL 2016 -  Alumnae Theatre
FireWorks Festival 2016
November 9 - 27, 2016
in the Studio Theatre
​
​AROUND THE WORLD IN THREE WEEKS!
​Sri Lankan immigrants with political baggage,
a Toronto tattoo artist with a sassy goth-girl apprentice,
an Armenian musician with a smothering mother - 
​
all featured in the 4th annual FireWorks Festival of new full-length plays developed at Alumnae.
Read more about FireWorks Festival 2016
​
THE CREASES IN MY SARI by Sindhuri Nandhakumar  Nov. 9 - 13
​
Two young Sri Lankan immigrants from warring factions fall in love, but growing political turmoil  and their own cultural baggage threaten to drive them apart, even in Toronto. Shadows of the past and secrets abound, and radicalism erupts as the violence in Sri Lanka escalates.

INKED HEART by D.J. Sylvis  Nov. 16 - 20
A Toronto tattoo artist aspires to become a successful painter while struggling with the breakup of his marriage and tangling with his mouthy goth-girl apprentice, who has her own story. A plot full of twists and hidden agendas, with surprising insights into the complexities of human nature - and the art of the tattoo.

MOTHERLAND by Kristine Greenaway  Nov. 23 - 27
A young Armenian actor-musician strives to make a life for himself as an artist in his economically depressed country and to break free of his smothering mother. A free-spirited young Frenchwoman does battle with his mother for Davit's future, pitting progress against tradition as the action reaches a climax that is both horrific and inevitable.
NEW IDEAS FESTIVAL 2017
New Ideas Festival 2017
March 8 to 26, 2017
in the Studio Theatre


​New Ideas Festival is an annual, 3-week, juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress and experimental theatre, with a different program of plays each week and staged readings on Saturdays at noon. The 2017 festival takes place in the Studio at Alumnae Theatre and runs from March 8 to 26, 2017.

This year’s festival
 features 15 new works, ranging in length from 10 to 60 minutes. The plays’ eclectic mix of characters includes three inept call centre employees, a nineteenth century lady’s maid with a secret, a young black woman confronting shadism, a physicist on her way to outer space, a troubled child psychologist, a lovelorn detective, an environmentalist who wants to save a river, and a dancing octopus. Come, enjoy three evenings of original plays and three Saturday readings, and give the playwrights your feedback.
​Read more about New Ideas Festival 2017
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  • HOME
  • MEMBERSHIP
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  • RENTALS
  • ❤ SUPPORT US
    • Our Supporters
    • Make a Gift
    • Donate by Shopping
  • INFORMATION
    • Contact Us
    • Board of Directors
    • About Us
    • Anti-Racism Statement
    • Safe & Respectful
    • Accessibility
    • News & Media
    • Open House
    • CURRENT SEASON >
      • Female of the Species 2022
      • Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike 2023
      • String of Pearls 2023
      • FireWorks Festival 2022
      • New Ideas Festival 2023
    • PREVIOUS SEASONS >
      • 2021/22 SEASON >
        • Albertine in Five Times
        • Nested
        • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
        • New Ideas Festival 2022 >
          • NIF 2022 Master Classes
          • NIF 2022 Talks
          • NIF 2022 Short Plays >
            • B to Z
            • Joule's Odyssey
            • Cancel Culture
            • The Do-Gooders
          • NIF 2022 Workshops
      • 2020/21 Season >
        • New Ideas Festival >
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2021 WEEK 2
      • 2019/20 Season >
        • The Heidi Chronicles
        • FireWorks Festival >
          • Belle Darling Klondike Queen
          • Grief Circus
          • If the Shoe Fits
        • The Trip to Bountiful
        • New Ideas Festival 2020
        • New Ideas Festival 2020 WEEK 1
      • 2018/19 Season >
        • The Importance of Being Earnest
        • Fireworks Festival 2018 >
          • The Pigeon
          • Moving On
          • Animal
        • Top Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2019 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2019 Week 3
        • Impressionism
        • News - 100 Year Open House 2018
      • 100th Anniversary 2017/18 Season >
        • Thirteen Hands
        • FireWorks Festival 2017 >
          • This Will Be Our Last Transmission
          • Surrender, Dorothy
          • GASH
        • Omission
        • New Ideas Festival 2018 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2018 Week 3
          • 2018 Reading Series
        • Queen Marie
      • 2016/17 Season >
        • THIS
        • FireWorks Festival 2016 >
          • Inked Heart
          • Motherland
        • The Gut Girls
        • New Ideas Festival 2017 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2017 Week 3
        • The Clean House >
          • The Creases In My Sari
      • 2015/16 Season >
        • Antigone
        • FireWorks Festival 2015 >
          • Divine Wrecks
          • Cottage Radio
          • Radical
          • Playwright Intensive 2015
        • Stepping Out
        • New Ideas Festival 2016 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 1
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 2
          • New Ideas Festival 2016 Week 3
        • August: Osage County
      • 2014/15 Season >
        • Escape From Happiness
        • FireWorks Festival 2014 >
          • Burying Toni
          • You Have To Earn It
          • Playwright Intensive 2014
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 1
        • Blood Relations
        • New Ideas Festival 2015 >
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 2
          • I am Marguerite
          • New Ideas Festival 2015 Week 3
    • Blog