A Fight Against…

“Look. In the middle of the inferno…a community.”

Kabul Goes Pop

‘Today in Afghanistan there are many important issues that we are facing in our country, and I want us to look at some of these issues. So I am asking you, the audience, to help answer a very important question. Britney or Shakira?’

Rare Earth Mettle

“You don’t tell an American to turn off their light; you build them a better light bulb.”

Disconnect

‘Do you ever stop to think you are part of something historic? What you do is of utmost importance to the world economy. By saving True Blue, you may be saving America. If America is robust, India is robust, the world is robust.’

Arcadia

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.”

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970. He is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, producer and director. His first six plays, separated into two trilogies all take place in County Galway which is where he spent his holidays as a child. His first non-Irish play was called The Pillowman, which premiered at […]

Niqabi Ninja

May 19, 2022 ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT  Sara Shaarawi is a playwright, translator, producer and performer from Cairo who is based in Glasgow. In 2021, NIQABI NINJA was produced as part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Independent Arts Projects/Lyceum and national tour); the play, which explores themes of sexual violence against women, has been performed in Cape […]

Chimerica

February 17th & March 17th, 2022     Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been performed across the UK and beyond, including the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, the West End and Broadway. Some of her critically acclaimed works include, The Children, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First […]

Harlem Duet

January 20th, 2022 ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Djanet Sears is an acclaimed African-Canadian playwright, actor and director. Djanet Sears was born in 1959 in England. In 1974 she moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and then settled in Oakville, Ontario in 1975. Sears wrote Afrika Solo in 1987, the first stage play to be written by a African-Canadian woman. […]

Arabian Nights

December 16 2021 ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Roland Schimmelpfennig is a German theatre director, dramaturg, and playwright. He was born in Gottingen in Germany. He began his career as a journalist, but in studied at Otto Flackenberg School of the Performing Arts to become a theatre director. He is one of Germany’s most celebrated playwrights, and his […]