New Ideas Festival 2017

March 8 - 26, 2017

29th ANNUAL NEW IDEAS FESTIVAL
March 8 - 26, 2017 
Venue: All performances take place in the Studio at Alumnae Theatre 

​New Ideas Festival 2017 features 15 new plays.

This years' plays include a wonderful mix of characters: three inept call centre employees, a 19th 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. 

Show times: Wednesday to Saturday, 8 pm                     
Saturday and Sunday matinées, 2:30 pm (talkback after the Saturday show)
Readings will be at 12 noon on each Saturday, followed by a talkback.
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Please join us for a rich theatrical experience. The New Ideas Festival 2017 plays are outlined below.  

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WEEK 1  
March 8 to 12, 2017

Call
      by Rosemary Doyle 
      directed by Rebecca Ostroff

Or Not to Be 
      by Andrew Batten
      directed by Julia Haist

Teach Her My Name
      by Michael Kras
      directed by Paige Foskett

D Cup
      by Alicia Payne
      directed by Eilish Waller

Reading (March 11, 2017):
Riverkeeper 
     by Katherine Koller
     directed by Rebecca Grace 

go to Week 1

WEEK 2 
March 15 to 19, 2017

The Red Lacquered Box 
      by  Burke Campbell
      directed by Lynn Weintraub*

Parallax
     by Michelle Glennie
     directed by Ara Glenn-Johanson

Y
      by Rosemary Doyle 
      directed by Sandra Cardinal

Professionally Ethnic
      by Bobby Del Rio
      directed by Rouvan Silogix

Reading (March 18, 2017): 
Who You Callin Black, Eh? 
      by Rita Shelton Deverell
      directed by Donald Molnar

go to Week 2

WEEK 3 
March 22 to 26, 2017

Beat 
       by Dale Sheldrake
       directed by Josh Downing

The Ballad of Sadie Wong
      by Andrew Lee
      directed by Cassidy Sadler

Who Knocks?
      by Connie Guccione
      directed by David Suszek

The Hungriest Woman in the World
      by Shannon Bramer
      directed by Claren Grosz

Reading (March 25, 2017): 
Thistlepatch 
      by Catherine Frid
​      directed by Kelsey Laine Jacobson

go to Week 3

* With the permission of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association