Vancouver, British Columbia—Late January 2016. Canada is in the throes of resettling the first wave of 25,000 Syrian refugees. As three frontline workers battle Vancouver’s housing crisis to move families out of an East Van hotel, their lives are brought together in ways that irreversibly shape them. Unscripted: The FrontlinersA…
Spiling is a trans woman with an affinity for postcards. She’s like REALLY into them. Spiling balancing attempts at old-school postal communication with her grandmother—who happens to be dead—with frantically completing her doctoral clinical training in counselling psychology. Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119, is an…
it lives in my bedroom is a heightened “art house horror” immersive theatre and multimedia experience, explores how survivors of sexualized violence with PTSD navigate subsequent relationships from a queer, gender diverse and trans survivor’s voice and perspective. The audience is led through a maze of rooms akin to a haunted…
Binary Star unfolds in two halves. In the first, Fátima, a Vancouver-based Brazilian-Canadian dancer-choreographer, traverses British Columbia in the fire-choked summer of 2003. Fátima takes an impromptu detour, only to find herself stranded on a lonesome backroad, surrounded by wilderness, and haunted by memories. The second half transpires over the course…
Engkanto tells of a family haunted through time and place that is both concrete and in the inbetween, by human, colonial and supernatural forces. A parent and his child come face to face with Philippine spirits called the engkanto to reunite their family and reckon with generational secrets, trauma, and stories both told…
Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical! is a two-act musical set in a Vancouver fried chicken franchise restaurant. The story centers around Antoinette (also named Toni), a young, queer Filipinx non-binary person who works at a Cruxes Chicken run by their older cousin, Kuya Pepe. They work hard with their best…
Mermaid Spring is a new work of interdisciplinary music theatre by Public Swoon, loosely inspired by Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida – a real-life natural attraction where since 1947, women have donned mermaid tails to perform underwater shows.
In 1979, a family drives back towards Chile from Canada. With past, present, and future encircling their journey, this profoundly poetic story is about the universal quest for home – in whatever form that takes.
Kuroko is a dark comedy about an agoraphobic daughter’s quest to find out the truth about her family.