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Leaving
Content warning: mental illness

Simone has been battling undiagnosed postpartum depression, and is losing. She decides to leave, packing her bags, and her husband Marc begs her to explain. As their son sleeps in the next room, she leaves, and Marc doesn’t try to stop her.
Composer: Darren J
Librettist: Sharon Bajer

Leaving
See Saw
Content warning: suicidal thoughts

A comedy. Trish laments her breakup with Ralph. She is desolate and considers suicide. Gina scolds Trish for over-dramatization and urges her to move on in her life. She succeeds in getting Trish to agree to go out for a drink at a bar nearby. They are intercepted by Ralph (on his bicycle) carrying a box of ...
Composer: Andrew Staniland
Librettist: Anna Chatterton

See Saw
See Saw
She Sees Her Lover
Agnieska and Sumana share a night together after meeting in a bar. The night, however intimate, has vastly different meanings to each woman. While Sumana is brimming with the excitement of a first chance at love, Agnieska is haunted by memories of her romantic past.

The next morning, Agnieska wakes early and admires her new lover Sumana as sh...
Composer: Craig Galbraith
Librettist: Leanna Brodie

She Sees Her Lover
She Sees Her Lover
The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
Content warning: mental illness, alcohol use, incarceration due to mental illness

Is it the clothes that make a man, or is it something other than?

Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, The Overcoat centres on Akakiy Akakiyevich, a diligent man no one likes, who works the numbers best he can. But he can barely pay th...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: Morris Panych

The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
Unfamiliar
Content warning: black-out drinking

A night out celebrating midterms takes a turn when Jamie doesn't return.
Composer: Darren Fung
Librettist: Dave Deveau

Unfamiliar
Unfamiliar
Airline Icarus
A worker ruminates on the terrifying power of flight as he loads bags.   Three passengers board and discover they’re sitting beside each other.  During the pre-departure safety demonstration, a flight attendant longs for an escape from her mundane life and job.  The three passengers think of their own isolation and longing and fear.  The flight ...
Composer: Brian Current
Librettist: Anton Piatigorsky

Airline Icarus
10 Days in a Madhouse
Content warning: ableism, institutionalization, medical abuse, mental illness, sanism, sexual violence

10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera that plays with notions of madness, inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who in 1887 faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell’s Asylum for the Insane and report ...
Composer: Rene Orth
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

10 Days in a Madhouse
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Excerpts
Leaving – Leaving
A mother with postpartum depression leaves her husband and son.
Leaving – “I spend my days looking” (aria)
Simone describes her postpartum depression and wonders how it is that she cannot love her own child.
She Sees Her Lover – “So many ways” (aria)
Agnieska questions why all of her previous relationships have failed.
She Sees Her Lover – Scene 1 (duet)
Agnieska and Sumana share an intimate night together after meeting in a bar. Memories of past lovers almost make Agnieska give up on this new love, but Sumana convinces her to hold on to hope.
She Sees Her Lover – Scene 2
Waking early, Agnieska admires her new lover Sumana as she is sleeping. When Sumana wakes, the couple share an intimate conversation and eventually descend into fits of laughter.
The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring – Act 2, scene 6 and 7 (Finale)
After days of near catatonia in his cold apartment, the landlady asks Petrovich to repair Akakiy’s old coat, to no avail. Even his coworkers arrive to check in, but by then, Akakiy is unreachable. Akakiy is committed to a mental hospital. Once he arrives, the other residents encourage him to look at things a little differently. It turns out he h...
Unfamiliar – Workshop Version
A night out celebrating midterms takes a turn when one student doesn't return.
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