Strains
October 18 – 29, 1994
Set against the backdrop of the 20th Century, Strains investigates social and political morality in conflict with the human heart.
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TABS
December 6 – 9, 1995
The time is 1995 and the place is a waiting room near a hospital where one of their “own” has inexplicably lapsed into a coma. The action is ANGRY……
True Lies
September 9 – 17, 1995
Three men: one in a hotel room, working out of town; the second an actor preparing for an audition; and the third a photographer who no longer photographs.
Tattoos
March 21 – 24, 1996, April 3 – 4, 1996
Max Rose explores her relationship to some of the indelible human legacies that one generation bequeaths to the next.
Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D.
June 4 – 14, 1998
The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and maybe, just maybe, forgive.
Transmedia Forum
October 14, 1998
a one-day celebration and exploration of performing artists who have ventured from the stage into the use of other media.
Kaleidography Workshop
March 1 – 5, 1999
Newfoundland theatre artist Jillian Keiley conducted a five-day workshop on her creative process, kaleidography.
Other Women
September 10 – 18, 1999
Having cheated on her white husband with an Asian man, a half-Chinese woman flees to the vacant home of her grandparents Wong.
Restless Prayers
January, 1999
Artistic Associate Chris Gerrard-Pinker collaborates with performers Karen Bennedsen, Kairn Lechner and Daniel Wild and musicians Lori Freedman, Andreas Kahre and Tiina Kiik on a new work of dancetheatre. Restless Prayers is a fugue-like series of interconnected meditations on fate, sacrifice and innocence lost. A workshop presentation in collaboration with Toronto’s Theatre Centre.
War of the Worlds
November 26 to December 5
a multi-media spectacle which explores the circumstantial meeting of three characters
Blueprints for Disaster
a showcase of new work by recent grads of Studio 58
I Am Your Spy (a day in the life of Mordechai Vanunu)
April 2000
This one man show depicts Vanunu’s isolation and anguish, and his struggle between hope and pessimism, for himself, and for humankind.
Three in the Back, Two in the Head
November 2 – 18, 2000
The life – and death – of Canadian ballistics innovator Gerald Bull, inventor of the “supergun”.
Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera
January 25 – 29, 2000
Under Wraps, an original work by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, is, on the surface, a story of unrequited love between a gay man and his straight best friend. That’s on the surface. But what about the sixteen-person chorus under a huge sheet of parachute cloth? This shape-shifting chorus functions as set, musical accompaniment, and as … Read more Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera
Foreign Bodies
September 5 – 16, 2001
Fiction wrestles with history, sexuality collides with cultural politics, and nations struggle for power in the story of one couple’s jockeying for position on their west-coast futon.
Hotel
February 1, 2001
The House of Pootsie Plunket
February 20 – 24, 2001
“[a] fierce and angry play, a diatribe against the destruction of a nation.” – Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun Part Greek tragedy, part black (Canuck) comedy, Vancouverites readily appreciated an allegory of the struggle to preserve cultural identity from the onslaught of our neighbours to the South. Catalyst’s production won a prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First in … Read more The House of Pootsie Plunket
Burning Vision
April 23 – May 11, 2002
Both tragic and irreverent, Burning Vision weighs the burdens of our ancestors as they travel through time, across continents and in our genes to cast shadows on the present.
