Avertissement de contenu : maladie mentale, consommation d'alcool, incarcération pour cause de maladie mentale
Est-ce les vêtements qui font un homme, ou est-ce autre chose ?
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...
In the park of a small town in the Crowsnest Pass, family and friends celebrate the wedding of Filumena Costanzo to Charlie Lassandro. As festivities proceed, Filumena seems withdrawn, stunned by her new husband’s brusqueness. Charlie has given her a new “Canadian” name, Florence, which she clearly rejects. ...
Consisting of 18 scenes, the opera covers 16 years in the life of Manitoba school teacher and Métis hero Louis Riel, from the Red River Rebellion (1869–70) to the North-West Rebellion (1884–85), and his trial and hanging in Regina in 1885. It also dramatizes the political scheming in Ottawa that resulted from Riel’s actions, as well as several ...
Naomi’s Road, which details a young Japanese-Canadian girl’s experiences as her family is interned during World War II, is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the power of hope, cultural understanding and compassion. This compelling and emotional story is taken from one of our country’s most painful and complex social periods, a time that for ...
A multicultural retelling of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
"The jealous king Leontes’ wife, Hermione, is accused of committing adultery with his best friend, Polixenes, and Hermione is jailed. Soon after, Leontes and Hermione’s young son dies before she gives birth to a daughter Perdita who is smuggled out of the country after Hermione’s s...
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 ...
A young mother with her infant daughter is threatened by an armed military officer escorting prisoners. She wants to wait for her husband, but the officer tells her he is probably already dead. The woman sings a lament to her baby, then pleads with the officer to take her baby and raise her as his own.
The night before her birthday, an aging Queen Elizabeth I catches an intruder in her boudoir. It turns out to be none other than her arch-nemesis Grace O’Malley, Irish pirate and chieftain, come to reclaim her seized ship and her trampled rights. A comedic opera about power and politics, destiny and desire, and how hard it is to be a woman at th...
Avertissment de contenu: mort, emprisonnement, interrogatoire, suicide, torture
A translator at a secret prison for suspected terrorists witnesses extreme torture and death of detainees. She leaks the information to news broadcasters, but the government covers it up as a hoax. Her supervisor begs her to say nothing more about the things she has seen -...
Avertissement de contenu : violence sexuelle, incarcération, abus religieux, homophobie, thérapie de conversion
Through several vignettes, Forbidden examines the idea of rules and taboos. Do they protect people, or do they control them? Are they of any value, or do they simply exploit the powerless?
A young girl, punished with repetition of religious tex...
Avertissement de contenu : mort, meurtre, suicide, xénophobie
Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...
Une femme, désemparée, tente de signaler une agression sexuelle à un policier. Elle admet avoir bu de l'alcool. Au lieu de poursuivre la justice, le policier l'arrête pour possession illégale d'alcool. L'enfant observe la scène.
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...
L'enfant remet en question le rôle de tentateur de Lucifer, alors qu'il lui fait de la tentation avec une intensité croissante. Il réprimande l'enfant pour s'être plié à l'autorité. Elle se met en colère, pousse les livres de côté et sort de la cage.
Le colonel Crane, le superviseur d'Alessandra, lui dit laconiquement de perdre ce qu'elle perçoit comme son sens naïf de la moralité : « Nous sommes juste là pour gagner. »
2003 : Après avoir divulgué sur Internet des photos de torture, la traductrice de l'armée américaine Alessandra Jenson refuse de se taire et diffuse en direct son suicide en signe de protestation.
Lucifer fait cliqueter une clé envoûtante devant l'enfant et un jeune garçon. Cette clé promet d'ouvrir les portes du ciel, mais le garçon a ses propres doutes à ce sujet. Néanmoins, il remonte la fermeture éclair de sa veste...
La chef pirate irlandaise Grace O'Malley se faufile dans la chambre de la reine Elizabeth I d'Angleterre et convainc la reine de lui rendre son navire et de libérer son amant. En retour, Grace assistera à la célébration de l'anniversaire de la reine et fera sensation, ce qui ravira Liz.
On offre à l'enfant tout ce qu'il peut manger sur une table, à l'exception d'une chose. Elle demande ce que cela pourrait être et, dans une réponse kafkaïenne, on lui répond : « tu sais ».
L'enfant s'ennuie. Elle lit plusieurs livres pour apprendre tout ce qu'elle ne doit pas faire, dire, sentir ou voir. Lucifer lui demande simplement pourquoi, en essayant d'attirer son attention vers lui plutôt que vers les livres. Elle trouve un nom, Iblis, et se moque de lui.
Un interrogateur tourne son regard effrayant sur une militante emprisonnée. Faisant exprès pour malcomprendre ses mouvements comme étant séducteurs, il se convainc de quelque chose d'horrible.