Gander Euphoria: A Pretty Gay Goose Play
Created by The Lighter Touch Art Collective | Produced by The Lighter Touch Art Collective | Origin: Ottawa, Ontario
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From the creators of the 17x sold-out Fringe hit A Sexy Pigeon Show!
Experience the history of queer resistance like never before! Honk your heart out with three queer geese at the gay club and PrEP for a protest after it becomes illegal to touch grass.
Join the flock and learn about the notwithstanding clause, building community, and maybe even do a little arson.
Featuring your very own mayor: Bark Sutcliffe.
Showtimes
- ¹ Friday, June 19Sold Out
- ¹ Sunday, June 219:30pm
- ¹ Monday, June 229:00pm
- ¹ Wednesday, June 248:00pm
- ¹ ² Friday, June 2611:00pm
- ¹ ² Sunday, June 284:30pm
- ¹ Sunday, June 28 (BEST OF FEST)9:00pm
Directed by: Erik Karklins
Written by: Erik Karklins & Harley Wegner
Stage Managed by: Tamara Laplante
Performed by: Jeannie MacRae, Sarah Ivanco, Seona Henry, Zayira Bunzigiyie & Anne Hamels (Swing)
Lighting & Make-up Design: Harley Wegner
Sound Design: Erik Karklins
Costume Design: Sarah Ivanco
Rehearsals for this show are sponsored by Lett’s Paint : Hintonburg’s Local and Professional Painters
Big thank you to our opening night raffle sponsors: Maggie May Harder, Fairy Cowboy Tours, Fleish Church, Raven and Ram, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Little Jo Berry’s, Tricky Ricky Productions (NBR Ottawa & Moose Knuckle Boylesque), Atelier Denu, Empress Jewels, Bread By Us, and Alex Henkelman Photography.
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So many birds puns, got to honk loudly, what a hoot! Actors did a great job.
Highly recommend this play! The actors made (H)Ottawa infinitely cooler and the show has a beautiful message about resistance, joy, and building community. Go see it!
Wonderfully and joyfully subversive theatre! Congratulations on the gathering flocks to this latest production. You kept everyone (geese, not humans) involved before, through, and after the show
This was a hilarious show and one of the best of the 2026 fest! This show was such a silly yet pointed good time encouraging hope, community care and connection in a time where this can feel pointless / challenged. All the cast did INCREDIBLE but I would like to give a shout out to performance by the person playing the cop / bark sutcliffe – you’re a star and kudos for playing unlikable “characters” with such stupid accuracy. A flocking good time so GO see this show or else HONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a charming show! Who knew resistance could be so cute and fun? Happy to have caught this HONKin’ good time with a gaggle of gay cobra chickens. 🦢 (I know its a swan, there aren’t any geese emojis, fight me HONK)
This is one of the shows I knew I couldn’t miss. The audience participation was amazing (like I didn’t expect to be dancing on stage)! The show was funny and the education hit the spot. Em is a lovely stand in for the audience and Gustav and the other lovely goose whose name I can’t remember are wonderfully opposite. And Bark Sutcliffe had me laughing my ass off. Would go see it again!
*certified not a cop reviewer
As Ottawa *former premier gay goose figure I give this my endorsement. Gay/10. Go see it (unless you’re a cop)
What a silly goose-y good time! Gander Euphoria explores historical and present LGBTQ+ topics and looks at how people can come together to combat difficult opposition from seemingly all-powerful entities, through an approachable lense of some silly geese! The audience was laughing for most of the evening, and honking throughout the rest of it! The dance party at the end was one of my favourite parts!