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.
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.
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.
by Ron Pederson & Alan Kliffer
directed by Alan Kliffer
starring Rob Baker, 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.
co-created by Sophia Fabiilli, Sarah Kitz & Zoë Sweet
written 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. A show about the complex
relationship between mother and child, life’s
transitions, and parenting in precarious times.
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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