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Blood Offering

Arts Court Theatre

In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the United States, an American town is left reeling by the death of Kayla Gordon. Her teacher, Mr. Naqvi, and her classmate Farid begin to bond in their common grief. But when Kayla’s parents approach with a sinister plan to seek retribution for her death, Mr. Naqvi’s beliefs are sorely tested as he is drawn into nothing less than a battle for the soul of his young student.

Chasse au Trésor

Atelier Theatre

Par l’entremise d’une série de vlogs, Trésor, un jeune homme de descendance congolaise nouvellement arrivé au Canada, fait des témoignages personnels pour parler de sa vie dans son pays d’accueil. Son questionnement face à son identité personnel déborde sur ses relations familliales, sa vie amoureuse et la réalité d’être un jeune homme noir en Amérique du Nord.

I Don’t Even Miss You

Arts Court Theatre

Award-winning theatre company Tiny Bear Jaws presents “I Don’t Even Miss You”– a dystopian pop “solo” show, featuring Elena Belyea (winner of the 2023 Betty Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical, “A tour de force” – Calgary Herald). Non-binary computer programmer Basil (they/them) wakes one morning to discover they are alone. They spend the next three years searching for others and building Orchid, a virtual assistant to keep them company. Now, Basil is recording a musical to serve as an archive of their life, for generations to come. A bold, multidisciplinary exploration of artificial intelligence, grief, love, and legacy, “I Don’t Even Miss You” asks how gender, identity, and family can exist with no one to perceive them.

KEEP MARS RED

Atelier Theatre

In KEEP MARS RED, Sunà, the protagonist is intent on communicating with Mars in order to warn it of the impending doom if earthlings land there, especially earthlings like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and others. In order to convince people to join her she makes the correlation between what has happened on earth – climate change and colonization and assimilation and stealing of Indigenous /Anishanàbeg resources – to what could happen on Mars. It will take super powers to make contact with Mars before the billionaires do! During her quest to find co-conspirators in her mission she also discovers a lot about her own molecular make-up and realizes it’s also about her own quest to figure out where she belongs. Is she Red-Enough to save the Red Spinning Planet?

Is there any life on Mars to communicate with? How to make contact? This is Sunà’s life’s work.

Join the Keep Mars Red Mission!

Kimiko

Arts Court Theatre

Kimiko is a poetic circus show that tells the tale of self discovery and reconciling generational trauma. Using a modern perspective on traditional Japanese arts, Kimiko explores the history of Japanese-Canadians and the relatable journey of discovering one’s cultural roots. Story telling, balancing objects, dancing, and sword swallowing are all woven together into a rich live performance that is more than entertaining, it is healing. Suitable for all ages, Kimiko is a visual feast full of beauty and surprises.

L’hippocampe

Atelier Theatre

Public cible: familial, enfants 4 ans et +

Pourquoi rêve-t-on?
Peut-on déclencher un rêve?
Est-il possible de rêver le même rêve tous en même temps?

C’est ce que les deux chercheuses-rêveuses tenteront d’élucider par une panoplie de tests à l’aide du théâtre, du dessin, de l’art mécanique et plus encore. Venez visiter ce laboratoire curieux et assister à d’étranges rêves. Une fraise qui nage? Une chercheuse qui rêve à dormir? Un hippocampe dans le désert du dessert? À vous de les découvrir…

Le Concierge

école secondaire publique De La Salle public high school

Un homme en uniforme apparaît au bout du couloir. Suivez-le et découvrez l’étonnant périple nocturne d’un concierge, de salle en salle et dans les recoins cachés d’une école. Plongez dans une expérience immersive, sans paroles, où la réalité se transforme en rêve. En examinant ce que signifie faire partie de la classe ouvrière d’aujourd’hui, Le Concierge dresse le portrait touchant d’un personnage solitaire dont le travail est trop souvent considéré comme allant de soi.

Dans Le Concierge, le col bleu devient mythologique. Tout comme Sisyphe, notre protagoniste a lui aussi pour tâche d’effectuer un travail absurde, répétitif et sans fin. Il devient une allégorie de la condition humaine. Comme le disait Albert Camus : “L’ouvrier d’aujourd’hui travaille tous les jours de sa vie aux mêmes tâches, et ce destin n’en est pas moins absurde.”

Après avoir joué à guichets fermés à Toronto en mars 2023, notre équipe est ravie de pouvoir présenter Le Concierge au festival undercurrents de cette année!

Malunderstood

Arts Court Theatre

Une grand-mère devrait vous gâter de temps en temps, non? Ce n’est pas le cas de la grand-mère de Kenny Streule. Plongez dans une collection de souvenirs qui expliquent comment Kenny a été élevé par un castor sauvage. À l’aide de la comédie, des marionnettes et du mouvement, Kenny examine sa relation avec sa grand-mère suisse allemande.

New Play Tuesday

Arts Court Studio

This popular undercurrents event is back again this year and will feature 3 partial and full readings from new works! This is a FREE event.

Terminally Ill

Arts Court Theatre

Chained. Nailed. In a coffin. In Montreal’s St. Lawrence River. Will Elvis survive?

After Dr. Hope Sze restarts the escape artist’s heart, she investigates who might have sabotaged Elvis’s stunt. As Hope plunges into the merry, mysterious, and potentially murderous world of magic and illusion, she must also balance her rotation on palliative care and her attraction to two strong-willed men.

A complex yet funny play inspired by Dr. Melissa Yi’s novel Terminally Ill, which was praised as “utterly likeable” by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and “entertaining and insightful” by Publishers Weekly.

Through My Lens

ODD Box

Through My Lens is a new intimate work by theatre artist Amy Amantea that combines conversation, hospitality and portraiture.

Amy is an artist with a lived experience of blindness, specifically having a total of 2% vision in one eye. She is also a photographer with a practice that involves walking the city at twilight looking for interesting light patterns and capturing them with her camera.

Through My Lens brings these life experiences into one small photography studio where Amantea shares her work as a photographer with a single participant who then describes her images—images she has never “seen”—back to her. The photos reveal themselves in accordance with the conversation and open up new realms of perception—a reciprocal collision of visual and non-visual experiences.

undercurrents Arts Exhibit

Arts Court Studio

We’re kicking off our 2024 undercurrents festival with a visual twist: our first ever undercurrents art exhibition! 

The exhibit runs from February 7-17th in the Arts Court Studio! Don’t miss out on an opportunity to see some great work and support local artists!

Join the reception on February 7th at 8pm for a chance to connect personally with the artists!


Nous débutons notre festival undercurrents 2024 avec une touche visuelle: notre toute première exposition d’art undercurrents !

L’exposition est ouverte du 7 au 17 février dans le Studio de la Cour des Arts. Ne manquez pas l’occasion de voir des œuvres remarquables et de soutenir les artistes locaux!

Joignez nous pour la réception du 7 février à 20h pour la chance de rencontrer personnellement les artistes!