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Join us for our 2024-25 season: an all-Canadian slate of powerful stories and characters as we explore what it is to be human… and inhuman…
FALL 2024
NEVER SWIM ALONE (comedy)
By Daniel MacIvor
Directed by Valmai Goggin
October 23rd - 26th, 2024 | 7:30pm
PWYC Preview Tuesday October 22
Running time: 50 minutes (one act)
Motyer-Fancy Theatre
Life is a sprint to the finish line. Just don’t look back. A hilarious and haunting play about toxic bromances, brutal rivalries, and the memories we can’t outswim.
THE DARK: a procession of music and light
(new work)
Created by Ian McFarlane and Kiera Galway
November 2nd – 3rd, 2024 | 7:30pm
Illuminated by lanterns and premiering an original choral composition, this open-air staging of a local poem takes us out into the night of the salt marshes to meditate on our emplacement and mortality. Join us for a series of public lantern building workshops followed by a procession through Sackville Waterfowl Park and ending in a performance of song and puppetry.
Featuring: music by Hope Salmonson, poem by Keagan Hawthorne and the Elliott Chorale.
Public lantern workshops: October 26th & 27th, 10am – 2pm at the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts.
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Performances times: November 2nd & 3rd, 7:30pm
Lantern procession: meet at Cranewood bakery
Rain venue: Motyer-Fancy Theatre
PWYC event
ALBERTINE IN FIVE TIMES (drama)
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Directed by Paul Griffin
December 4th – 7th, 2024 | 7:30pm
PWYC Preview Tuesday December 3
Running time: 70 minutes (one act)
Motyer-Fancy Theatre
Meet Albertine. She is 30. She is 40. She is 50. She is 60. She is 70. A moving play about time, family, and the capacity to persist.
WINTER 2025
VICTOR '25 (comedy)
Created by Alex Fancy and Tintamarre: Mount Allison’s bilingual theatre troupe
February 5th – 8th, 2025 | 7:30pm
PWYC Preview Tuesday February 4
Running time: 70 minutes (one act)
Motyer-Fancy Theatre
A monstrous and precocious child. Smug, bourgeois parents. It’s Victor’s 9th birthday. What could go wrong?
IF WE WERE BIRDS
By Erin Shields
Directed by Jay Whitehead
March 26th – 29th, 2025 | 7:30pm
PWYC Preview Tuesday March 25
Running time: 80 minutes (one act)
Motyer-Fancy Theatre
Women silenced through violence. Now is the time to not look away. This award-winning play is an unflinching commentary on contemporary war and its aftermath delivered through the lens of Greek Tragedy.
Tickets available through Eventbrite (click here for redirect).
