Shows

BLINDSIDE

Arts Court Theatre

(pour le spectacle francophone, ANGLE MORT passer au site français)

BLINDSIDE is a critically acclaimed solo performance by Stéphanie Morin-Robert that offers an intimate and humorous look at her life growing up with a glass eye. This deeply personal and wildly entertaining show combines comedy, dance, and storytelling to tackle themes of identity, self-acceptance, and resilience. With candid humor and striking vulnerability, Stéphanie shares her unique childhood experiences, inviting audiences to laugh, reflect, and celebrate human differences. BLINDSIDE has captivated international audiences, earning standing ovations, five-star reviews, and multiple awards for its poignant, powerful storytelling.

Daddy’s Issues

Arts Court Theatre

Daddy’s Issues is a bilingual play that explores the grief of losing a parent who is still alive. While moving into her new apartment, Anaïs discovers her father’s old phone hidden in one of the boxes. Through a narrative that weaves between monologue and scenes between two lovers, the circumstances of Anaïs’s father’s disappearance become increasingly clear—and complicated! With one foot in her childhood and the other stuck in an iPhone 4, Anaïs will have to mend the fractures of her past to finally feel whole. This play is a love letter to those who choose to stay, to the complexity of trans girl motherhood, but above all, it is a love letter to the deep fractures of childhoods that end too soon.

En sortant de Cochrane

ODD Box

A devastating car crash, a young man’s coming out, and the silence of a family collide in En sortant de Cochrane, an autobiographical narrative in the form of verbatim theatre in which the author delves into his past and questions his family members to make peace with the pain he has carried for twenty years.

Foul Play

Arts Court Theatre

Fair is foul and foul is fair,

When High School football turns gruesome nightmare.

Alba High star quarter-back Mac Finnlay is going for glory in his senior year. Beth, his cheerleader girlfriend, will stop at nothing to make their prom royalty dreams come true; and Duffy, Mac’s best bro will cover his tight end no matter what the cost. 

That is until an eerie encounter with the Goth Girls under the bleachers sends their lives spiralling out of control. 

Chaperoned by the demoralized Coach Dunk and the over-eager Principle Porter, these teens about about to learn the true horrors of High School.

New Play Tuesday 2025

Arts Court Studio

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades (HHG) is thrilled to partner with undercurrents for this edition of New Play Tuesday.

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre is drawn to where the political and the personal intersect – the politics of everyday life. In curating this edition of New Play Tuesday, we were drawn to stories that center on individuals and their identities within a larger societal question: these are stories of community and belonging as much as they are capital “P” political. And while each of these texts addresses a serious or important “Political” issue, they all do so with nuance, and often humour, engaging the audience in discussion or reflection, rather than being didactic about serious topics.

One Small Misstep

Arts Court Theatre

An ambitious orphan named Sam lands her dream internship with an asteroid mining firm and finally gets to have her great adventure in outer space, only to be attacked by the most merciless pirate captain in the solar system! Sam and her crewmates – Jim, a grizzled captain and Pawn, an emotional android – are left stranded on a distant asteroid where they encounter aliens with problems of their own. Will they overcome their differences and difficulties or will their hopes for survival crash and burn?

Revelations

ODD Box

When disaster strikes and the world we know melts away, how will you react?

Here at Revelations^TM Consulting, we’re not can-hoarding, sky-is-falling alarmists—no! We’re optimists. We offer confidence and peace of mind with our no-nonsense, probability-driven approach to avoiding injury, death and property damage.  

We fuse walkie talkies, gameplay and live performance in a customized disaster survival scenario like no other. The countdown is on to escape a major disaster right here in Ottawa: compete or collaborate to make it to safety—deciding who to save and who to trust…

Survival can be dicey. Maximize your chances with Revelations Consulting.

She, Men & the Giant F*cking Snake: a theatrical song cycle

Arts Court Studio

“She” is the mythological Greek figure Tiresias.

“She” is a Twink in the Gay Village.

“She” is being chased down by her ex, a GIANT SNAKE.

“She” is a multi-dimensional space bitch on a mission to figure out who touched her tits before she disappears into the multiverse.

Set to a thrilling original pop-rock score, She, Men, & the Giant F*cking Snake is a solo drag theatrical song cycle about gender identity, sexual assault in queer spaces, and the journey of understanding who you are.

Téton Tardif

Arts Court Theatre

Presented as a solo-performance, a woman is afraid to give birth to a daughter. She questions the origins of this fear—how does one become a woman? She remembers her breasts at the age of 11. 

The desire for breasts and their absence, the models of femininity in magazines, on TV, in society, crystallize this belief. She then takes us on a journey with her. This quest for breasts becomes an excuse to dive into the cultural imagination, all the things we ingest without realizing it, which reveal a lot about the society in which we grow up and influence even our intimacy, our relationship to the body, to sexuality, and to others.

Between stand-up and theatrical drama, the text breaks the fourth wall and aims to be direct and authentic.

This is a workshop performance.

visual arts at undercurrents

Atelier Theatre, Arts Court Studio, Courtroom

undercurrents festival is proud to celebrate queer artistic expression in collaboration with Capital Pride and the Ottawa Trans Library. Together we’re showcasing the work of 2SLGBTQ+ and QTBIPOC visual artists through two engaging visual arts exhibits. 

Don’t miss our vernissage on February 6th, 7–10 PM—an unforgettable queer art party featuring the creativity of over 50 amazing artists. This is the opening night celebration you won’t want to miss!