June 5th, 7:00 pm at the Joyce Doolittle Theatre

Worry - Day Chase (she/they)
Part of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary series

Have you ever had an imaginary friend? Good thing you’re here, because this scientist is conducting research on imaginary friends, and asking all the important questions. What are their favourite colors? Why are they so tall? How come some are quiet and others so loud? But, are all imaginary friends filled with sparkles and sweet things? Not quite. When the scientist meets Worry from the basement, they begin to feel more nervous than ever before! Intended for young audiences, this project blends theatre with animation, and aims to create a unique performance centered around anxiety and friendship.

Truth and Tales From All Over - Jason Cabuenõs (he/him)
Part of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary series

Truth and Tales From All Over is an original table top card game, similar to Dungeons and Dragons, where what unfolds in the narrative of the evolving game is acted out by improvisors while also integrating audience involvement in unique ways. The goal of the game is to acquire story beats that follow the arc of familiar cultural and/or mythic narratives, and we witness how these stories change in the telling.

June 6th at 7:00pm at the Joyce Doolittle Theatre

Tomboy (Chłopczyca) - Anais West (they/he)
Winner of the 2023/2024 Wildfire National Playwriting Competition

Tomboy (Chłopczyca) is a dance-theatre performance using contemporary movement and Polish folklore to investigate gender and memory. In the play, a non-binary university student learns that a boy from their Polish immigrant community committed a disturbing act of violence. This revelation forces them to re-examine their shared adolescence in an insular and tradition-bound culture. But with each remembering, the sequence of events becomes more ambiguous, the choreography of memory more complex, unravelling the narrative they’ve constructed of themself, their gender and the boy's culpability. Were his actions his own, or was he cursed by a monstrous and mythic inheritance? By reclaiming traditions, including folk dance, Tomboy seeks to be both an unflinching autopsy of masculinity, as well as a vision of queer metamorphosis.

Skinhead - Shyanne Duquette (they/them)
Part of the Wildfire Playwriting series

Skinhead follows a group of friends navigating the challenges of growing up and joining groups that prove to be much more insidious than initially expected.

GRINGAS - Mercedes Isaza Clunie (she/her)
Runner up of the 2023/2024 Wildfire National Playwriting Competition

GRINGAS tells the story of 7 Latina-Canadian teenagers who are forced by their mothers to attend a Spanish-only summer camp. Within the confines of shared bunks, they confront their disappearing youth, through dreams, dance, and cigarettes, and tackle the intricacies of the looming shadow of their 'gringa-ness'.