Zoning Out















A single mother from Iran immigrates to Canada with her child. She faces the challenges met by many newcomers in a new country. But her story goes in an unexpected direction when she learns that her child is on the Autism spectrum.
Produced by: Blackout Theater
Playwright & Directed by: Amir N. Hosseini
Stage: Presentation House Theatre
No Child












Provocative and insightful, No Child… transports the audience to the underfunded Malcolm X High School in the Bronx, where an intrepid substitute drama teacher refuses to give up on a group of at-risk students—despite their hardened attitudes and tough-talking attempts to push her away.
Produced by: The Arts Club Theatre Company
Directed by: Omari Newton
Stage: Newmont Stage at The BMO Theatre
The Crucible

















The Crucible is a timeless parable of morality, a scorching indictment of intolerance, and a central work in the canon of American drama
Photos by: Javier Sotres
Directed by: Jessica Nelson
Stage: The Frederic Wood Theatre
Far Away












Far Away is a 2000 play by British playwright Caryl Churchill. The play has four characters, Harper, Young Joan, Joan, and Todd, and is based on the premise of a world in which everything in nature is at war
Directed by: Lauren Taylor
Stage: The Frederic Wood Theatre
The Turn of the Screw








The Turn of The Screw is a smart, tense, suspenseful play by Jeffrey Hatcher that was adapted from the famous, provocative 19thcentury novel by Henry James
Produced by: Aenigma Theatre
Photos by: Harika Xu
Directed by: Tanya Mathivanan
Stage: Studio 16
The Glass Menagerie






The play is a ‘memory play’ narrated by character Tom, based on his memories of his mother Amanda and mentally fragile sister Laura. It is set in their old St. Louis apartment
Stage: The Frederic Wood Theatre
Great Slave Lake







One-act unusual mystery. Two women, Gretchen and Margaret, sit on their next door front porches in a small Ohio town in the autumn of 1938 and talk about their husbands, both named Clyde, each a brother of the other woman, who have mysteriously disappeared on a fishing trip to Canada a few months earlier
Photos by: Erika Champion
Directed by: Michelle Thorne
Stage: Dorothy Somerset Stage
The Shallow End





One act play about the relationship between three teenage girls
Photos by: Erika Champion
Directed by: Jenny Larson
Stage: Dorothy Somerset Stage
Burqa Boutique





In the midst of war, a multi-generational group of women take refuge inside a burqa boutique that’s free from political allegiances
Produced by: Revolver Festival
Photos by: Jayda Paige Photography
Directed by: Gavan Cheema and Jamie King
Stage: The Cultch – The Greenhouse stage
The Way You Carry On






Two estranged sisters reunite in an East Van backyard: one queer and poly-amorous, the other monogamous and on the run from motherhood
Produced by: Revolver Festival
Photo credit: Jayda Paige Photography
Directed by: Mika Laulainen
Stage: The Cultch – Greenhouse Stage
Fireflies





A multimedia exploration of body autonomy and non-binary identity in a dystopian future Japan
Photos by: Jayda Paige Photography
Directed by: Patricia Trinh
Stage: The Cultch – Greenhouse Stage
The Time Machine







The Time Machine, is a science fiction classic written by H.G. Wells, in the Victorian Era. Tracey Power and the Acting C ensemble have updated this story to jump 1000 years in time and discovers what the world may look like if we pay no attention to climate change and the voices of young people.
Produced by: Gateway Theatre
Directed by Raugi Yu and Eileen Barrett
Stage: Richmond Gateway Theatre Studio Stage
Seussical JR.







Transporting audiences from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus, the Cat in the Hat narrates the story of Horton the Elephant, who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny people called the Whos.
Produced by: Gateway Theatre
Directed by: Christina Cuglietta and Abbey Dutton
Stage: Richmond Gateway Theatre Studio Stage