Neworld Theatre
Neworld Theatre’s motto is ‘plays well with others’; the stories they tell focus on sites of real contention yet their creative practice is one of collaboration and working across difference. Over their 25-year history, Neworld has produced, presented and toured 5-8 works annually at festivals and theatres in over 40 cities and 10 countries worldwide. Major projects have included the internationaltouring hit Winners and Losers, the canonical war-on-terror satire, Ali and Ali and the axes of Evil, and the radically inclusive and assumption-puncturing, King Arthur’s Night.
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Clean/Espejos
Developed during her time as the Urjo Kareda Resident Artist at Tarragon Theatre, Clean/Espejos is a stunning, shocking, and surprisingly funny new work by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Playwright Christine Quintana. The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Adriana, a hotel floor manager reeling from a family loss, has a chance encounter with Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest with a long-held traumatic secret—when their worlds collide on a fateful rainy night, both women are forced to face their past and all that they’ve tried to keep hidden.
Clean/Espejos intimately explores different perspectives of female solidarity, secrets, and survival across two languages. Clean/Espejos is a fully bilingual production performed in Spanish and English with dynamic surtitles throughout.
"pure, potent storytelling at it's best" - Gail Johnson, STIR
"You're not going to see better performances onstage this year" - Colin Thomas
Format: Live in person or online
Photo by Sewari Campillo
The Boy in the Moon
Written by Emil Sher, and based on Canadian journalist Ian Brown’s memoir of life with his son, The Boy in the Moon tells a deeply moving story about a family raising a child with a severe disability. Ian and Johanna Schneller’s son, Walker, was born with a rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome. It made him unable to talk, eat properly, or take care of himself. The family must face complex issues most of us do our very best to avoid. The Boy in the Moon is a story of pain and beauty that asks vital questions about family, frailty, and the values we ascribe to human lives—our own, and those around us.
In Partnership with the Rare Disease Foundation.
Format: Live in person
Photo by Matt Reznek
Awkward and Embarrassing
Conversations
Awkward and Embarrassing Conversations is part performance and part participatory workshop. Sarah Garton Stanley (Associate Artistic Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre English Theatre) and Marcus Youssef (one of Canada’s leading contemporary playwrights) invite self-identified groups to investigate the assumptions that bind them together, and to ask questions and confront internalized taboos that may normally feel too risky to raise.
Format: Live in person
Photo by John Lauener