Great Canadian Theatre Company is pleased to announce that we will be supporting Megan Piercey Monafu's "Tahiti" through our community development initiative, The Tributary Project.
About the play
A local Tahitian influencer brings aid to people without adequate medical access – until she is outed as white. In the ensuing global outrage she meets Rahi, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker. As a person of colour with roots in a colonized country, he struggles with his own ability to shape her story.
[Image Description: 7 headshots in 3 rows. Top row at right is a photo of Adnan, a South Asian man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark blue shirt. At centre is a photo of Adrienne, a light-skinned Black person with glasses, a gray cap, and black overalls, against a white background. At top right is a photo of Deivan, a Brown man with short dark hair and facial scruff, wearing a button up green shirt. In the middle row at left is Kelsey, a mixed white and south asian actor with long dark hair wearing a black turtleneck. At centre is Mary, a white woman with short grey hair in a black shirt. At right is Scout, a white person with wavy hair smiles, sitting at a desk. In the bottom row is Megan, a white woman with long dark hair with bangs, wearing a white button up shirt.]
The Company
Adnan Khan | Dramaturg
Adrienne Row - Smith | Video Artist
Deivan Steele | Actor
Kelsey Rideout | Actor
Mary Ellis | Actor
Megan Piercey Monafu | Playwright
Scout Rexe | Dramaturg
About The Tributary Project
The Tributary Project selects one local show to bring in-house on a flexible multi-year basis for development with an eye towards production in a future mainstage season. AD Sarah Kitz introduced this offer from GCTC to the community at the unconference in May 2022. Since then, every step of this process has involved the leadership and vision of community artists.
A tributary is a river or stream that flows into a larger body of water. There is also the notion of paying tribute and, with this initiative, GCTC seeks to pay tribute to the artists of the National Capital Region by supporting and uplifting their work here at home.
The selection from the pilot year of The Tributary Project was Laurie Fyffe’s Beowulf in Afghanistan, which is having its world premiere onstage at GCTC in November 2024.