STRATA INC.
MAIN STAGE
THEATRE | MOVEMENT
UNICORN
Bus Stop Theatre Writers Circle
Sea and Sky, two Black women growing up on the beautiful East Coast are finally brought together through music and movement when one night of dancing changes their lives forever.
Thursday, June 6 @ 7:00pm
Friday, June 7 @ 7:00pm
Saturday, June 8 @ 7:00pm
THEATRE | AUDIO
STRATA INC.
The Strata Inc. Collective
As users collide with the new Internet reality of VR experiences, exploring online privacy, connection, security, and access, hacker-turned-corporate Victoria must choose: run the multinational responsible, or escape from her own invention.
Thursday, June 6 @ 8:00pm
Friday, June 7 @ 8:00pm
FILM | MUSICAL THEATRE
LES FILLES DU ROI
Urban Ink
The powerful story of a young girl and her brother whose lives are disrupted upon the arrival of les filles du roi in ‘New France’ (now Montreal) in 1665. Mohawk, French and English journeys collide, setting the stage for the Canada we know today.
Wednesday, June 5 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, June 9 @ 3:00pm*
*Artist Talkback
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THEATRE
F*CKING TRANS WOMEN
F*cking Theatre Co.
A bold, unapologetic journey through sex, desire, and transgender identity, delivering raw humorous honesty and a powerful perspective.
Saturday, June 8 @ 8:00pm
THEATRE | INTERACTIVE
THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE
Popcorn Galaxies
An intimate performance about loss, longing, and human connection. Inspired by the undeliverable and misdirected mail that finds its way into the postal service’s office for “dead letters,” this performance explores the lived experiences of real people and delivers otherwise impossible messages from those we have lost.
Saturday, June 8 @ 11:00am - 1:00pm*
Saturday, June 8 @ 6:00pm
Sunday, June 9 @ 7:00pm
Monday, June 10 @ 2:00pm - 5:00pm*
*Free Public Installation Performances
WORK-IN-PROGRESS | THEATRE
Q&A
Joe Cobden
Q&A invites its audience to ask questions about a play they haven't seen, while the answers from the cast and moderator reveal a dysfunctional backstage and a bankrupt theatre company slipping into obsolescence.
Sunday, June 9 @ 8:00pm
SPECIAL EVENT | THEATRE | POETRY
BLACKOUT
Erasure Art Collective
An interdisciplinary project that recreates historical slave ads using ‘erasure’ or ‘blackout’—a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text to create a visual poem.
Friday, June 7 @ 6:00pm*
*Passholders only event
SPECIAL EVENT | THEATRE | GAME
THE ARCHIVE OF MISSING THINGS
ZUPPA
A contemplative game in a library. Equipped with an iPad and a headset, you have 90 minutes to explore a maze-like archive in search of the secret at its centre. Clues are hidden in a live performance happening secretly around you.
Saturday, June 8 @ 3:00pm*
*Passholders only event
INDUSTRY SERIES
Dustin Harvey + Richie Wilcox
The Industry Series program is designed around exchange and is open to various participation levels so you can engage comfortably. There are keynote talks intended to inspire, enlighten and inform. Networking sessions like Walk & Talk and Field Trip forge personal connections that deepen relationships. Our featured sessions, like Pitch Room, enable new ideas to flourish.
*Separate pass required
FAMILY STAGE
MUSICAL THEATRE
BOTTOM DWELLERS:
A DEEP SEA MUSICAL
The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Co.
Dive in and join Hagfish, Crab, Urchin, and a 400-year-old Greenland Shark on a musical deep sea odyssey for all ages!
Saturday, June 8 @ 12:30pm
THEATRE | PUPPETRY | PLAY READING
THE BOOK OF ASHES
Halifax Theatre for Young People
A play reading and puppet show-and-tell for HTYP's upcoming production of Emil Sher's The Book of Ashes, a true story about the magic of libraries set in war-torn Iraq.
Saturday, June 8 @ 2:30pm
THEATRE | INTERACTIVE
BETRAYAL AT THE BIG TOP
The Club Inclusion Theatre Company
The newest creation from the Club Inclusion Players is a backstabbing big top murder mystery! Guaranteed laughs and screams, but careful: you might get swept up in the show!
Sunday, June 9 @ 12:30pm
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Les Filles du Roi
7:00pm - 7:45pm
UNICORN
8:00pm - 9:45pm
Strata Inc.
6:00pm - 6:30pm
BLACKOUT
7:00pm - 7:45pm
UNICORN
8:00pm - 9:45pm
Strata Inc.
11:00am - 1:00pm
The Dead Letter Office
(Market Installation)
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Bottom Dwellers:
A Deep Sea Musical
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Book of Ashes
3:00pm - 4:30pm
The Archive of Missing Things
6:00pm - 6:45pm
The Dead Letter Office
7:00pm - 7:45pm
UNICORN
8:00pm - 9:30pm
F*cking Trans Women
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Betrayal at the Big Top
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Les Filles du Roi
7:00pm - 7:45pm
The Dead Letter Office
8:00pm - 8:45pm
Q&A
FREQUENCIES, STAGES 2023
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