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 ...

Agnieska et Sumana partagent une soirée ensemble après s'être rencontrées dans un bar. La nuit, aussi intime soit-elle, a des significations très différentes pour chaque femme. Tandis que Sumana déborde de l'excitation d'une première chance amoureuse, Agnieska est hantée par les souvenirs de son passé amoureux.

The next morning, Agnieska wakes early and admires her new lover Sumana as sh...

Avertissement de contenu : langage explicite, violence sexuelle, contenu sexuel, alcool, consommation d'alcool pendant un black-out

Hook Up tells the story of three friends who have made it to university, each with their own unique desires and inner conflicts. Mindy is just excited to keep her high school friend circle together and finally get some privacy with her boyfriend. T...

An opera for all ages. Sydney, an Asian elephant poached at a young age from the jungles of Indonesia, recalls her remarkable life in captivity, far from home, as her keeper of 22 years leads her on a journey towards sanctuary in the hills of Tennessee. A dynamic weaving of opera and dance unearths friendships lost and found and restores a stole...

Avertissement de contenu : mort, meurtre, violence

This opera explores the interior realm of a woman’s response to a crisis. The Laurels plays with audience assumptions and expectations; it is well into the piece before we realize the stranger is not the person he appears to be. While it is important that Laurel’s understanding of the Stranger is consi...

Avertissement de contenu : mort, guerre

Pendant une guerre, deux femmes se parlent au téléphone. Elles paniquent en regardant l'aîné de la ville défiler dans la rue, télégramme en main. Le message porte toujours une nouvelle horrible : la mort d'un fils. Les deux femmes espèrent presque à contrecœur qu'une autre famille recevra le télégramme. N'importe qui, sauf elles.

En vérité, le télégra...

Avertissement de contenu : maladie, décès

Rocking Horse Winner primarily explores the relationship between Paul, a young adult, and his emotionally distant mother, Ava.

Paul is driven to bridge the relationship with his mother, but Ava sees Paul’s attempts to engage as fussy and considers motherhood an obligation. She remains distant, trapped in a m...

À travers huit brèves vignettes, des couples vivent de petits moments de frustration, de mauvaise communication et d’attirance.

Content warning: gun violence, strong language, terminal illness, attempted assisted suicide

A father and son argue in a dark alley.  The father, sick with a tumour "the size of a fig" in his brain, begs his son to end his life.  When the gun they're using fails and the son panics, the father offers comfort and encouragement in the form of a ...

"Détestez vos stupides boucles d'oreilles, détestez vos chaussures laides." Stéphanie se prépare à sortir avec un rendez-vous, mais elle commence à s'effondrer lorsqu'elle se regarde dans le miroir. Les voix qu’elle entend dans sa tête sont des variations de sa propre voix critique. Elle se voit comme elle imagine que son rendez-vous la verra. Rien ne va – tout va mal. C'est un...

Glimmer attempts to address the urgent matters and seemingly irreconcilable coexisting realities at the core of queer existence through multiple frames and lenses. Taking full advantage of an all-queer cast of performers, with whom the piece was developed organically through a series of discussions and workshops, this work intertwines the autobi...

Svadba explores a "wedding theme, especially the night before the ceremony, when we are privy to private and ancient rituals between the bride and her girlfriends. The text is taken from original Serbian poetry but given a new context for our contemporary culture... A wedding is an important turning point in every woman’s life, usually steeped i...