Mon. April 7-13, 2025
Cock
By Mike Bartlett
Presented by Talk Is Free Theatre
At 388 Carlaw Ave. Artist Play Studio, Carlaw Industrial Complex.
Cock, the hit comedy by British playwright Mike Bartlett, is about John, a gay man, who has been in a relationship with his partner for seven years. But when he meets and falls in love with a woman, he is forced to contemplate the boundaries of his identity and decide what he really wants for his future.
This is a return engagement to Toronto with the play. It plays to May 2. There is no excuse to miss this thrilling production.
Tues. April 8- 20, 2025
Pochsy IV UnPlugged
At VideoCabaret, 10 Busy Street.
Written and performed by Karen Hines
Pochsy worked at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Now her employer has moved offshore, and Pochsy must grapple (in her eerily screwball way) with her industrial past and God’s broken promise of a five-star future.
Karen Hines is a fierce artist. She doesn’t play here often. You have been warned.
Tue. 8-26, 2025
Mahabharata Part I
At The Bluma Appel Theatre
Produced by Why Not Theatre at Canadian Stage
Adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes
Directed by Ravi Jain
Mahabharata is a contemporary take on a Sanskrit epic that is more than four thousand years old and foundational to South Asian culture. This gripping story of a family feud is an exploration of profound philosophical and spiritual ideas. A visually stunning spectacle presented in two parts, Mahabharata takes audiences on a journey through the past in order to write a thrilling new future.
Exploring themes of storytelling, ecocide, and dharma (empathy), Part 1 begins Mahabharata‘s epic journey that asks, “How can one end the spiral of revenge when everyone believes they are right and their opponents wrong?”
Fri. April 11-27
Mahabharta Part II
At the Bluma Appel Theatre
Produced by Why Not Theatre at Canadian Stage
Adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes
Directed by Ravi Jain
Continuing the story from Part 1, King Janamejaya is told of the war fought by his ancestors – the battle of Kurukshetra and its devastating destruction of the planet, the mass extinction that follows, and of the survivors left behind to rebuild.
In Mahabharata’s Part 2 (Dharma), the storytelling tools evolve into captivating projections, dynamic digital soundscapes, and poetic stage design. The stories delve simultaneously into philosophical and political ideas, and abstract and absolute truths. Interrogating the themes of justice and revenge, Part 2 includes a 15-minute Sanskrit opera adaptation of the Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God), which is the most famous chapter of the Mahabharata epic.
Wed. April 9-27, 2025
Feast
At Tarragon Theatre
Written by Guillermo Verdecchia
Directed by Soheil Parsa
A culinary tour, a global crisis, and yet, still always hungry.
Can one ever be truly full? Feast is a biting look at a world where some are movers and some are moved and how long we can last when your family is falling apart.
Mermaid or siren? Paradise or dystopia?
Wed. April 9-13. 2-25
David and Jonathan
By Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Fully Staged at Koerner Hall
Presented by Opera Atelier
The opera explores the explosive relationship between Saul, the King of Israel, his son Jonathan, and David, the young hero and slayer of Goliath.
The production will feature the Artists of Atelier Ballet and will be accompanied by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Opera Atelier Music Director David Fallis with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir.
Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg staged and choreographed David and Jonathan in 2022 in the Royal Chapel in Versailles.