Welcome to the productions in the Victor Mitchell Theatre!

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Performance Series: FEAST

Location: Pumphouse – Victor Mitchell Theatre

Our performance series is full of scrumptious art!

In this Feast of work, we have:

Improv: The Rovers

Ready to explore the depths of life, love, and laughs, The Rovers come to you for a set of fully improvised theatre. With split second in the moment decisions, nothing is guaranteed, except failure.

Dance: Everything, Nothing

by Cindy Ansah

Everything, Nothing is a seminal dance work that was first performed as a solo in Triple Bill Weekends in April 2019, taking its cue from Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. The dance piece analyses the way material objects attract our attention and call us in, enabling us to respond, interact and connect to inanimate objects. Considering instances such as window shopping, hoarding, and littering, the piece disrupts the perception of “it” and “things” as separate from and irrelevant to “us” and “beings.” Everything, Nothing encourages a collective questioning of habitual thinking by embracing, not only how you move objects but how objects move you.

Please select a performance

Wed, Jun 12th, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Thu, Jun 13th, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Sat, Jun 15th, 2019 at 9:30 pm

Performance Series: POTLUCK

Location: Pumphouse – Victor Mitchell Theatre

Our performance series is full of scrumptious art!

In this Potluck arrangement, we have:

Improv: Push Button

A duo of female improvisers creating a mono-scene from suggestions given by the audience using an app from our phone.

Dance: Stripped

by Sarah Mitchell

Stripped focuses on the physical and psychological impacts overuse, oversexualization and improper training can have on youth populations. Utilizing text, humour, and pop culture references, Sarah Mitchell shares her research and lived experience with the harmful aftereffects of competitive dance pedagogy.

Dance: Tunnel Vision

by Elizabeth Ferns

Tunnel Vision explores the notion of being stuck in a continuous loop on the thoughts that haunt us in the back of our minds. “I remained so much inside my head and ended up losing my mind” – Edgar Allen Poe

Please select a performance

Wed, Jun 12th, 2019 at 8:15 pm

Thu, Jun 13th, 2019 at 9:30 pm

Fri, Jun 14th, 2019 at 8:15 pm

Performance Series: TAPAS

Location: Pumphouse – Victor Mitchell Theatre

Our performance series is full of scrumptious art!

In this arrangement of Tapas, we have:

Theatre: Remaining Anonymous

by Jelena Minshall

This production investigates the pressures society has placed on individuals to search for permanence and label relationships in search of security. These themes are explored by six characters as they grapple with the vulnerability and insecurity of enduring aspects of undefined relationships. The playwright designed this story to be as inclusive as possible to spectrums of gender and sexuality.

Dance: Imperfect Perfection

by Sasha Wilde

Obsession with perfection. Why and how do imperfect creatures strive for the unattainable? What trials and tribulations do humans put themselves through in order to achieve this standard? IMPERFECT PERFECTION explores image; the juxtaposition between inward and outward perfection – being perfect vs appearing perfect. Is perfection a façade?

Dance: Martha and her Sister Mary

by Abby Scott

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Wed, Jun 12th, 2019 at 9:30 pm

Fri, Jun 14th, 2019 at 9:30 pm

Sat, Jun 15th, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Theatre Series: We Will Tune It To A Whisper

Location: Pumphouse – Victor Mitchell Theatre

A wild, interactive, and playful look at the ways technology has impacted our lives, for better and for worse

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Thu, Jun 13th, 2019 at 8:15 pm

Fri, Jun 14th, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Sat, Jun 15th, 2019 at 8:15 am

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