This is a repeating eventJanuary 28, 2025 7:30 pm
Event Details
In association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada, Ruby Slippers Theatre presents The Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage. Five Staged Readings
Event Details
In association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada, Ruby Slippers Theatre presents The Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage. Five Staged Readings over Five Days.
Hair Hair Everywhere
Monday, January 27, 7:30pm, Studio 103 Recital Hall
Welcome to Hair Hair everywhere, where we meet Shabnam’s head hair, armpit hair and leg hair! Through shadow puppetry, sound scores, spoken word in Farsi and English, this experimental comedic play tries to question the beauty standards, the roots of anti-body hair culture, and ways we can embrace Persian Femme bodies. Should Shabnam shave or not?
Rougarou
Tuesday, January 28, 7:30pm, Studio 103 Recital Hall
Based on the Métis legend that originated on Turtle Island centuries ago, Renee is plagued by memories of their missing and potentially murdered sister along the roads of Highway 16. Renee has never stopped looking for his beloved sister since the day she was taken, but now a menacing figure at the edge of the wood stalks Renee… watching…waiting. Will Renee find his missing sister or will they fall victim to the same fate? Sometimes family can find you even in the darkest of times.
From This Side of the End
Wednesday, January 29, 7:30pm, Studio 103 Recital Hall
From this Side of the End is a collaboratively-created play about four young people making their way across the Canadian landscape and facing almost every apocalyptic event possible (floods, fires, earthquakes, acid rain, zombies, etc) on their way to safety. The piece asks incisive questions about the world that they have left behind, and offers imaginings for what we can all seek to create in our future world together. It is a sobering, candid, and hopeful look at starting again, especially the way in which community love plays a necessary part in the rebirth of our societies.
Baking Show Show: The Play
Thursday, January 30, 7:30pm, Studio 103 Recital Hall
Sugar. Salt. Sabotage. Grace lives the perfect life, but something is missing. When her first attempt to claim the title of Great Canadian Baker fails, she spirals into obsession. Soon enough, she’s trapped in a pit of her own deception and turns to the one thing she has left…sabotage. This satirical story examines what it is to have a ‘white whale’ in the era of social media and reality TV. It explores the price we pay for chasing idyllic dreams into obsession, and the harsh reality that the hardest worker is not always successful.
The Consent Club
Friday, January 31, 7:30pm, Studio 103 Recital Hall
Join us for a reading of the play “The Consent Club”, an adaptation of Moliere’s The Learned Ladies. Set on a North American university campus, this satire about zealotry, hypocritical Puritanism, and sexual paranoia follows our horny heroine Anita as she tries to get laid at the height of the #MeToo movement. Told from the lens of a Latina socialist feminist who is a refugee and a survivor of childhood rape, this controversial and hilarious play takes on the essentialization of women as victims and men as predators.
Time
January 27, 2025 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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