The festival, which is NB’s only 2SLGBTQIA+ theatre festival features staged readings of this years winners on Thursday November 17th, 2022 at 7:30PM in the Ted Daigle Theatre (dramaturged by the lovely Santiago Guzman) and main-stage productions of last years winners on Friday November 18th, 2022 at 7:30PM. All tickets are PWYC and can be reserved by emailing theatre@stu.ca.
November 1, 2022
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7:30 pm
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November 6, 2022
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9:30 pm
Bluebirds is set in Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital. Through it all, the three women find friendship, independence, power, and influence in a place where men, once again, are trying to destroy the world.
Queens, Clowns and Fools is an introduction to pathways for new work creation that address, invokes, or involves an audience’s presence directly into performance.
As taught by multi-award-winning drag clown Justin Miller (aka Pearle Harbour), this class aims to equip its participants with the skills to tear down (or at least peek around) the fourth wall, tap into their impulse and imagination, and open themselves up to the risk, surprise, and love that can arise when performers authentically listen to their audience, and respond urgently to hug the calamity in the room.
Using tenants of Pochinko clown, bouffon, direct address, cabaret, commedia dell’arte, butoh, and contemporary drag, participants will tap into a presentational form that is both ancient and entirely in the moment.
This class is ideal for actors, drag queens, comedians, clowns, storytellers, solo- and interdisciplinary-performers, lecturers, anyone who has the courage to stand in front of someone else and entertain with both their wits and their heart.
When: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 , 6:30PM – 9:30PM
Location: Black Box Theatre, James Dunn Hall, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB
November 11, 2022
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7:30 am
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November 12, 2022
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9:00 pm
November 11-12, 2022
TICKETS: $25 adult | $15 student SERIES: Studio Series LOCATION: BMO Studio Theatre, 112 Princess St, Saint John, NB PERFORMANCE TIMES: 7:30 PM
A personal journal of colonialism brought to life.
Text & Performance: Mbene Mwambene; Concept & Direction: Ntando Cele, Mbene Mwambene; Light & Sound: Bharathi M. Franaszek & Valerio Rodelli. Premiere: Schlachthaus Theater Bern, 2019. Produced by Insaka Arts.
The Whispers is a solo physical performance, that brings a personal journey of colonialism to life. It’s a response to both the colonial and current perspective of being black using storytelling, poetry, sarcasm, music, and body movement. Mbene Mwambene traces his family history, asking is a modern Black man free to choose who he becomes? What does it mean to decolonize oneself when living in Europe? What does it mean to have a name?
The Whispers has been performed at Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Konstanz University, Theater Konstanz, Schwankhalle in Bremen, Theater am Lend Graz, Lichthoft Theater Hamburg und Stadthaus Ulm. The German version “Das Flüstern” was presented at LurUPina – Zirkusfestival Hamburg and at the Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebeck.
September 22, 2022
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7:00 pm
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September 24, 2022
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9:00 pm
Real friends can be hard to come by, especially ones like Harvey!
Harvey is a six-foot-tall rabbit invisible to everyone, except Mr Elwood P Dowd.
In order to save the family’s social reputation, Elwood’s sister, Vita, decides to bring an end to Harvey and have Elwood committed but the tables turn when the doctors mistakenly commit the anxiety-ridden Vita instead.
Elwood—and Harvey—slip out of the hospital unbothered, setting off a hilarious whirlwind of confusion and chaos as everyone in town tries to catch a man and his invisible rabbit friend.
**Please note: in order to keep our cast and crew safe, masking will be required at this performance. **This show is rated PG-13 for mild language and historical approaches to mental health concerns
The Village of New Maryland and Frantically Atlantic proudly present the Wetmore-Street Duel and Trial. September 22, 2022. 7pm (rain or shine).
FREE! New Maryland Centre, 754 New Maryland Highway. There will be a reception to follow with light refreshments and a Q & A with a research historian.
The Wetmore Street Pub and Eatery (530 New Maryland Highway) will remain open September 22 until 10pm. Meet the actors and raise a pint.
Special thanks to our sponsors New Brunswick, Town of New Maryland, Wetmore Street Pub and Eatery, and Covey Digital Print.
We miss you! We appreciate you! We can’t wait to see you! It has been a long few years, let’s get together and catch up.Grab a friend and join us for a complimentary bar-b-que in the big white tent in our backyard on Horsfield Street!
In this brilliant, jubilant Massey Lecture, one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators provides spectacular insights into the glory and anguish of life. Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humor, and death. An exhilarating tour through Christian, classical, and Cree mythologies reveals their contributions to Western thought, life, and culture—and how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems.
Will Shakespeare needs a new play for the Queen – in less than a week. Desperately he puts together bits and pieces of plays he’s been working on but has yet to produce. The result is a show with many of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, speaking some of his most famous lines – out of order, to the wrong character, and sometimes confused with other lines! The outcome is a humorous smorgasbord of love lost, love found, lust, dramatic tension, and absurdity with love, sleeping, and death potions! All of this, and music to boot.
Dinner is available from 6 pm to 7:30 pm for those interested, and bar service is also available.
Tickets: $20 for show/ $55 for show and buffet dinner
Staged readings of five of the winning short plays on a maritime theme from Old Sow Theatre Festival’s
5 Minute Play in a Week Playwriting Competition plus a reading of M.A.D. about Van Horne Grace Helen Mowat’s Music, Art and Drama Society attempting to mount a play about the railroad magnate.
Minister’s Island – outdoors or in the tent depending on the weather
Freewill donation at the door (non-M.I. members will be required to purchase access to the Island).
