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Knife

A Stagepunk Theatre Production

“I understand why we keep fighting all these wars. For thousands of years trying to kill each other. I get it.”
World Premiere of a new play by Eric Trudell.

In London, Ontario, Tanner and Isaac are door-to-door knife salesmen for an international corporation. In the mornings before their shifts, they drink homemade wine, smoke, and talk about their old friends that were lucky enough to get out of the city. Tanner’s marriage is failing. Isaac is celebrating his one-year anniversary with his long-term girlfriend. But when recent high school graduate Luke joins their team, a new, unlikely friendship begins to bud. What happens when a thirty-something in a dead-end job forms a close bond with his eighteen-year-old coworker? Are they actually similar, or are they both desperate to find someone who shares their same loneliness?
Knife is a dramatic, sharp comedy about work, purpose, and not being able to connect with people your own age.

Credits

Written by Eric Trudell
Dramaturgy by Mya Wong

CREATIVE TEAM
Director – Eric Trudell
Associate Director – Naomi Kaplan
Production/Stage Manager – Liam Cox
Assistant Stage Manager – Rebecca McDonald
Lighting Designer – Paige Thompson
Set & Props Designer – Millie Cameron
Costume Designer – Quỳnh Diệp
Sound Designer & Composer – Irah Salo-Allen

CAST
Luke – Noah Grittani
Tanner – José Andrés Bordas
Isaac – Jordan Jerry Kuper
Reggie – Gabriel Hudson

April 22
to April 26, 2026

Tickets are $37.49 - Standard General Admission

Venue

BMO Incubator

Performance Dates

Wednesday, April 22 – 7:30pm (opening)
Thursday, April 23 – 7:30pm
Friday, April 24 – 2:00pm
Friday, April 24 – 7:30pm
Saturday, April 25 – 2:00pm
Saturday, April 25 – 7:30pm
Sunday, April 26 – 2:00pm (closing)

Content Warnings: Coarse language, depictions of drugs and alcohol, use of prop cigarettes.

Please Note: Latecomers will not be permitted.

This performance is 100 minutes

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