[Image description: Yellow banner with multicoloured block text reading "Let's Celebrate!" Bordering on the left and right of the image are colourful sketch drawings of stage lights, hearts, opera glasses and stars. The black and yellow G C T C logo is in the left corner and in the right corner is the season's 50th anniversary logo, which features colourful balloon numbers.]
Our 50th Anniversary Season is full of joyful comedy, big ideas, and a local world premiere. We’re staging a Canadian classic and championing new writing, featuring local and regional artists. This is a celebration of where GCTC has been and where we’re going.
Read on for the full season details, along with original season art by Jesús Rivera Zavala.
[Image description: An ink drawing of a man and a woman, bent and contorted to fit into a shoebox. The woman, left, is upside-down. Around them and between them are various articles from their tiny apartment including a teapot, broom, violin, cassette tape, and a smoking furnace. The drawing is coloured in various shades of pink.]
The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine
September 24 - October 6, 2024
by Robert Morgan, Martha Ross & Leah Cherniak
directed by Geoff McBride
starring Maryse Fernandes & Drew Moore
Ernest and Ernestine are in puppy love. Then they move into a tiny basement apartment together. Can their love sustain cohabitation? A hometown team of Ottawa’s finest take on this Canadian comedy classic.
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[Image description: An ink drawing of a soldier in a helmet; a notebook, pen, pencil, and paintbrush are tucked into the helmet. The soldier has a moustache and wears glasses. Words including Grendel and homesick are tattooed on his head. Around him float images including a boot, knife, moon, skull, poppies, and more. The image is coloured in various shades of green.]
Beowulf in Afghanistan
November 12 - 24, 2024
a World Premiere by Laurie Fyffe
directed by Kate Smith
A Canadian soldier harnesses the medieval Anglo-Saxon text of Beowulf as a life raft through the clash of conflict, and after. A world premiere, supported by GCTC’s Tributary Project.
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[Image description: An ink drawing of three figures with objects appearing to be thrown or floating above them in the spirit of “anything goes”! The figure to the left wears scuba goggles, a mask, and cap, their arms are raised. The central figure wears a bird head mask, standing behind an oversized microphone. The figure to the right is wearing a space helmet, their arms are raised and their mouth is open. Text across the figures reads “improv”. The image is coloured in various shades of orange.]
FLOP! An Improvised Musical Fiasco
December 10 - 22, 2024
by Ron Pederson & Alan Kliffer
directed by Alan Kliffer
starring Hannah Spear, Jan Caruana & Ron Pederson
A Klif Entertainment production
The playwright quit, there’s no sheet music, the choreographer was cancelled and the director went into rehab. World-class performers scramble to create a miraculous new musical in this highwire act of skill, comedy, and desperation.
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[Image description: An ink drawing of a female figure with bangs and shoulder-length hair. She wears a backpack with rolls strapped to her back. Her body is tattooed with images including a sun and moon, heart, house, a child, as well as text including words such as love, courage, adventure, motherhood, and Covid19. The image is coloured in various shades of purple.]
Why It’s imPossible
A play about parenting in precarious times
January 21 - February 2, 2025
co-created by Sophia Fabiilli & Zoë Sweet
by Sophia Fabiilli
directed by Evalyn Parry
starring Zoë Sweet
A SweetnFab Collective production
Beth is struggling to stay afloat as a single parent, a working professional, and the 45-year-old resident of her mother’s basement. As her child explores their gender, Beth confronts her idea of what a ‘good mom’ looks like, balancing the urge to protect her child with the desire to support her kid as their authentic self. Why It’s imPossible explores the complex relationship between mother and child, life’s transitions, and parenting in precarious times.
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[Image description: An ink drawing in which four people, bodies not shown, are holding hands in a prayer circle. Their sleeves are patterned intricately with graphic designs of circles and waves inspired by Kuba and Super Wax Cloth. In the centre of the image is the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Floating between the hands are images such as a church, cellphone, bible, lipstick, devil, and plane. The image is coloured in various shades of blue.]
Vierge
March 18 - 30, 2025
by Rachel Mutombo
directed by Dian Marie Bridge
a GCTC co-production with Black Theatre Workshop
Sixteen-year-old Divine’s only real friend is Jesus. When her family joins a new church she learns that the world around her is not as it seems. With heart and humour, Vierge follows four Congolese-Canadian girls as they navigate Christianity, virginity, and teenage hormones.
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