Please join us in December for two Residency Showings.

The Theatre Centre’s Residency Program is a two-year program designed to support artists in developing new work. The program facilitates a highly collaborative artistic process that embraces experimentation and learning with a wide variety of collaborators.

Residency Showings are an opportunity for our Residency artists to share their work during development and to embrace the dialogue that emerges as part of the creative process.

Sunday, December 4 at 7:00pm
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Secret Life of A (One) Mother
Created by Hannah Moscovitch, Maev Beaty, and Ann-Marie Kerr
Twitter: @moscotweets; @sheepnowool; @AnnMarieKerr

Secret Life of A (One) Mother is a theatrical investigation of the gothic side of modern maternity, inspired by interviews with 75 mothers and born out of the long-term friendship of the creators. A new play offering counter-narratives of pregnancy and child-bearing: the hidden stories, the ones only shared in hushed tones. A confessional piece cracked open by poetic image that gets at the hallucination of motherhood.

The Secret Life of A (One) Mother collective would like to thank the Toronto Arts Council for their support.

Sunday, December 18 at 7:00pm
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On (E)very (C)orner a (T)errorist by Suvendrini Lena.

On ECT is about schizophrenia – a word which literally means fragmentation of the mind.

In this work-in-progress we are exploring how fragmentation and loss of identity in schizophrenia relates to the fragmentation we all experience. Schizophrenics ‘hear voices’. Schizophrenics fear loss of control over their own thoughts and bodies. Clinically we call this ‘paranoia’ but is it really such a strange idea? How does anyone actually separate internal and external voices? How do we know which voice/voices are truly our own? What makes what we say, think, or even feel, truly our own? Is any self unfragmented?

We use the writings of Franz Fanon, archives from Queen Street Hospital from 1900-1920, and fictional characters Ether and Zephyr to explore these ideas with an immersive sound and environmental design.

Artists include: Suvendrini Lena, Lyon Smith, Soheil Parsa and Trevor Schwellnaus.

Please stay tuned for more Residency Showings as the dates become announced

Ian Kamau
Ian is a Toronto-based hip hop and spoken word artist. In Residency Ian will plunge into an exploration of mental illness, told through the story of his grandmother Nora Elutha Rogers. Ian confronts his own struggle with depression as a catalyst to learning more about his family’s struggle with mental illness.  Ian Kamau is a recipient of Ontario Arts Council’s Playwright Residency grant.
Twitter: @iankamau

Residency is made possible by Lead Sponsor BMO Financial Group, and with the support of The J.P. Bickell Foundation.