Kitchen Potluck 2025
Presented by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company
fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company proudly presents Kitchen Potluck 2025, our most anticipated and cherished event of the season. Join us on Monday, June 23rd at 8:00pm at The Theatre Centre’s Franco Boni Theatre for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating the future of Asian Canadian theatre.
Now in its 22nd year, Kitchen Potluck is a long-standing tradition that champions the voices of emerging Asian Canadian playwrights. Each year, audiences get a rare glimpse into fresh, in-progress works that explore identity, community, and bold artistic vision. It’s a space where raw creativity meets community support—and where many now-celebrated artists first shared their voices.
Kitchen Potluck isn’t just about theatre—it’s about community. After the presentations, we invite you to continue the celebration by breaking bread with us in the lobby, sharing food and conversation in classic Potluck style. This post-show gathering is a hallmark of the event, creating a warm, communal atmosphere that reflects the heart of fu-GEN’s mission: to build and nourish emerging and established artistic connections.
Come experience the beginnings of tomorrow’s groundbreaking theatre. Celebrate new Asian voices, powerful Asian stories, and the magic of sharing a delicious Potluck meal. We can’t wait to welcome you to the table.
Tickets are PWYC entry, suggested $18 per ticket.
This event includes mature themes and explicit content.
Table! by Antong Xu
Table is born (assembled) in an immigrant family. Table then learns about the world as well as themself. Table talks. Table witnesses. The family moves, abandoning Table. Table travels. Table dies. In the end, on a trash mountain, Table is resurrected.
living arrangements by Keshia Palm
‘living arrangements’ is a portrait of 5 people as they try and fail to maintain civility (and sanity) amidst changing housing circumstances in Toronto. When the lease-holding roommate breaks the news that she’s bought a condo with her partner and is moving out, the landlord agrees to transfer the lease — to one of the 2 remaining roommates. What follows is an absurd fight for who deserves to keep their (affordable) housing, who doesn’t, and what happens to them next. Using a 3-bedroom apartment in Toronto’s west end as ground zero, their story (and the story of Canada’s housing crisis) is told using music, physical theatre, puppets, and theatre magic.
Virgin Camp by Cynthia Jimenez-Hicks and Cameron Kneteman
Virgin Camp – It’s horrifying. It’s hilarious. It’s holy. Think Joseph Kahn directs a musical in a megachurch basement after ten tabs of acid. Hyper-stylized. Explosive. Genre-bending. Uncompromising. A gospel of glitter and grief, Virgin Camp is not just a musical — it’s a ritual. A drag baptism. A hip-pop prayer. A campy crucifixion of everything we were taught to revere. At its core, Virgin Camp asks: What happens when you’ve been taught to kill the woman inside you — and she refuses to die?
For full Potluck credits, please visit: www.fu-gen.org/potluck-2025
June 23, 2025
to June 23, 2025
Tickets are PWYC entry, suggested $18 per ticket
Franco Boni Theatre
Monday, June 23rd – 8:00pm, Potluck community event to follow in the cafe.
This performance is 90 minutes
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