Creation and Innovation at Nextfest 2024
Check out progress showings and readings lineup below.
Want more Theatre? Here’s our Theatre Mainstage lineup.
THEATRE PROGRESS SHOWINGS
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Good Boi Productions presents
That One DnD Play
by Kate Couture
directed by Asia Weinkauf-Bowman
Friday, June 7, 2024 at 4:00 pm (performance will be followed by an audience talkback)
Lorne Cardinal Theatre
“That One DnD Play” is a new show about Dungeons and Dragons! A group of adventurers go on a campaign to resurrect their beloved friend/companion. Join Vos (Necromancer Cleric), Ruben (Orc Ranger), and Nadia (Elf Barbarian) as they try to save their beloved friend and brother. A new play where no one knows what the outcome will be because the dice rolls do matter.
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Orpheum Productions presents
The Bells
music, lyrics and book by Emi Gusdal and Cassie Hyman
directed by Kaden Wilson
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm (performance will be followed by an audience talkback)
Nancy Power Theatre
Centred around the lives of the Brontë siblings, The Bells is a folk musical that follows Branwell, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne as they overcome tragedy and familial tension, while securing their legacy as literary phenomenons.
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READINGS
Workshop readings are free events. Please show up 15 minutes in advance to go to the performance.
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READINGS One
Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 11:00 am
Roxy Rehearsal Hall
The Woeful Fae presents
The Witches Truth
by Veronica Hall
featuring Bean, Veronica Hall, and Scott Muyser
Love Fairy Tales? What about the witches in each one? Are they truly the villain or is there more to the story? Hear the witch’s defense to retell these stories manipulated once upon a time. The truth has been a one sided telling, new voices and perspectives reveals a new tale.
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READINGS Two
Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 11:00 am
Roxy Rehearsal Hall
17 Degrees presents
Post(AL) Prophet
by D’orjay (30 minutes)
featuring Mustafa Rafiq and Moe Ahmed
“Post(al) Prophecy” is a post-apocalyptic musical play that follows the journey of a AL, an indentured mail carrier who is secretly clairvoyant living in a world where communication is tightly controlled. Set against a backdrop of dystopian oppression, our hero embarks on a daring quest to liberate the sharing of information and ultimately humanity itself.
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READINGS Three
Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Roxy Rehearsal Hall
18+ event, audience is advised to check content warnings
The Pagans
by Daisy Brazil (20 minutes)
The leader of one of the most powerful witch covens is left a scorned lover after a paramour attempts to usurp her power. When her ex-lover returns years later, they are both forced to reckon with the secrets they keep from the world, themselves, and what it really means to wield power. 18+ event, audience is advised to check content warnings
Sukkar
by Jasmine Hopfe (20 minutes)
After avoiding her for some time, Huda reconnects with her mother Ruya over flour and spices and sweets. Ruya begins revealing her roots in a way Huda has never seen, opening Huda’s eyes to a whole different side of her mom, herself, and all those who have come before her. Sukkar (“sugar” in Arabic) explores the isolation, heartache, and forced forgetting woven into the diaspora, the feeling of coming home when one remembers where they come from, and how food can live at the centre of it all. IMAGE ATTACHED
From Prague to the Prairies
by Gabrielle Elizabeth (20 minutes)
featuring Miracle Mopera, Gabi Stachniak, Isabella Murasko, and Daniel Medema.
Following the defence of her nightmare thesis and amid a devastating breakup in Prague, a young woman returns to Edmonton, Alberta where she reconnects with an old friend and confronts a few fears.
Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, emotional abuse, homophobia, misogyny.
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READINGS Four
Sunday June 9, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Roxy Rehearsal Hall
18+ event, audience is advised to check content warnings
Between Friends…
by Katherine O’Connor (20 minutes)
A wild night turns into a quiet one as Lacy makes her way home from her bachelorette party with her two best friends, Jamie and Cynthia, on the 221 bus. That is, until a human-sized bump in the road forces the bride-to-be to reveal her true feelings about the big day. It takes the power of three to get to the bottom of this mystery, and convince Lacy to tell her fiancé the truth before it is too late.
We’re All Mad Here
by Anthony Hunchak (20 minutes)
In this queer horror reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, a young trans man finds himself lost in a fantastical world he remembers from childhood. Wonderland seems to have grown curiouser and curiouser with age. Is it just the mushrooms making him paranoid, or is there something sinister lurking behind those familiar grins?
Clown MacBeth presents
I am happy to say
by Dylan Thomas (20 minutes)
A rumination of the last thirty years. A soul stands within a tempest of reflection. Static, noise, and familiar ghosts surround him. Sorting between what is real and false reality to find the clear path to “the answer.” Audience is advised to check content warnings