Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers is an immersive, site-specific theatrical experience set in the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. A modern-day adaptation of Julius Caesar, where the audience is free to roam into the night of a fraternity’s annual hazing ceremony, Blood Brothers follows twelve young characters at will as their stories unfold and collide throughout the frat house.

Messy, brash, bold and unapologetic, Blood Brothers tells the story of young men and women caught in the vortex of power, privilege, influence and desire. When we’re faced with everything we’ve ever wanted, who do we turn into? Can we ever become more than what we were born to be?

Audiences are empowered to follow characters and as they move throughout the house, spectating from the fringes of a vape filled living room or shadowing Marc Anthony into the kitchen. Maybe you follow the crowd as it’s drawn to the loudest scene. Maybe you stay seated in one place, letting the story come to you. The night you witness is dependent upon the path you choose.

Blood Brothers explores how fraternities are microcosms for our society, as masculinity, violence and power tear the frat house apart. The brotherhood of man protects those on the inside, always.

Company: Sheep’s Clothing Theatre
Playwright, Producer, Co-Creator: Brianna Russell
Director, Producer, Co-Creator: Catie Thorne
Cast: Jonah Paroyan, Heather Thomas, Boro Milošević, Nick Cikoja, Auguste Kociuba, Kalon Young, Owen Carter, Seung Eun Cha 차승은, Tristan Mercado, Brady Bertrand, Nolan Byrne, Tre Carty, Dylan Duff
Stage Manager: Claire Smith
Assistant Stage Managers: Morgan Angus and Elijah Macleod
Technical Director/Lighting Designer: Sephora N’Kosi
Costume Designer: Evangeline Dailisan
Set and Props Designer: Amanda Michele
Artistic Accomplices: Zoe Daca and River Oliveira

Accessibility

This is a Moving Performance. Audience members are required to walk up and down stairways during the show, as well as come in close proximity with the actor and other audience members. Audience members are required to wear a masquerade mask (provided).

All performances of Blood Brothers will be a Relaxed Environment.

All performances will offer Peer Support

All performances will offer a Sensory Friendly route through the house. Audiences can request the route at FOH. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Loud/sudden music, noise and yelling, flashing lights, use of haze, fake blood, violence.
Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 90 Minutes (Audiences should plan to arrive by 7:30PM)

Venue: Delta Upsilon Fraternity - 182 St George St

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Body Story

When was the last time your body felt happy? When did it feel the most tense? How many injuries has your body sustained? When do you push it to its limits?

The successful body. The authoritarian body. The sweaty body. The becoming body. The complete body. The eternal body. The digital body. The ancestral body. The hidden body.

What does your body remember?

In this debut solo work by dance artist Xin Ji, the story of his body unravels through moments where the emotional and physical collide. An incredible display of absolute control and breathtaking virtuosity, discover how a body carries memory, pain, emotion, and history without us always realising. Uncertainty, recklessness and euphoria slide into this intimate personal narrative — offering ways to consider our bodies as vehicles for resistance and alchemy.

Choreographer and Performer: Xin Ji

Sound Design: Alistair Deverick

Dramaturg: Nathan Joe

Costume Design: Steven Junil Park 박준일

Set Design: Talia Pua

AV Design: Qianye 林千葉 and Qianhe Lin 林千和

Lighting Design: Rowan Pierce

Production Manager: Emmanuel Reynaud

Operator: Jazmin Whittall

Producer: Rosabel Tan

Assistant Producer (debut season): Pennie Chang

Accessibility

*Please note that the elevator to the Franco Boni Theatre is out of service. Audiences will have to climb stairs to access the theatre.*

All performances of Body Story will offer Audio Description.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Live music with partial nudity, use of haze and bright lights.
Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 50 Minutes

Venue: The Theatre Centre Franco Boni Theatre - 1115 Queen St W

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Collision Project: Good Boy, Bad Girl

“Collision” symbolises the mutual influence and interweaving of cultures.

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is a solo choreographic performance by Joseph Lee that interlaces storytelling, rope skipping and erotic dance. It attempts to unpack the complex relationships between the image of male body, gay culture and affective economy.

Lee uses his body to transform a daily fitness routine into a performative ritual, reliving his experience as a gay man in Asia in pursuit of the mainstream ideal figure in the community. The works reveals how fitness and performing arts industries make use of this image to sexualise, glorify and discipline the male body and its expression.

The performance, nevertheless, also questions how Lee, as a performance-maker, might queer the gaze of desire through constant shapeshifting from one image to another — practicing a mode of being that is fluid, uncertain and unnamed.

Through bodily postures, Come closer, go deeper! explores the female bodily experience and the gaze. The work invites audiences to experience pain, pleasure, tension and ease through the flow and transformation of movement, while participating in a bodily journey propelled by the gaze. Presented as a performative workshop, it guides audiences to reanimate their awareness and imagination of the body through stretching and movement exercises. This interactive experience interweaves participation and observation, creating a dynamic akin to the power play of the gaze within an intimate performance setting — where self-reflection intertwines with the observation of others. The work presented at the Queer East Festival in London in 2026, continuing its exploration of embodied intimacy and collective presence across cultural contexts.

Collision Project: Good Boy, Bad Girl is presented in alignment with Collision Project: Spin and Click.

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Choreographer and Performer: Joseph Lee
Lighting Designer: Le Dinh Dat
Costume Designer: Trista Ma

Come closer, go deeper
Choreographer and Performer: Paula Wong
Lighting and Set Designer: Le Dinh Dat
Costume Designer: Trista Ma
Sound Designer: Larry Shuen

Accessibility

All performances of Collision Project: Good Boy, Bad Girl will be a Relaxed Environment.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Both presentations Include audience interaction.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Venue: Winchester Street Theatre - 80 Winchester St

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Collision Project: Spin and Click

“Collision” symbolises the mutual influence and interweaving of cultures.

In a room, a dancer and a computer. In a single click, to possess or lose that place. My skeleton and organs perhaps dance there, perhaps it is merely an accident. Delete, repeat, come back… No matter what choices are made, what disappears will inevitably be filled, or left as blank space.

In a fingertip lies the imagination and connection of movement, of body, of choreography, of performativity. When the breath and touch that performance emphasizes are no longer part of the everyday, Beyond the body itself, Click presents another possibility for performance through another “body” in constant dialogue with it.



The work premiered as a commissioned programme for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

Stay with the spin is a narrative performance created by Cheung Wai Yin during a residency at Komuna Warszawa Teatr in Poland, integrating Instagram as both a digital archive and performance language. Cheung’s twelve years of experience in pole dancing are carefully deconstructed across movement, teaching, training and community dimensions, using digital social records to document the transformation of his body and dance trajectories. The work focuses on the profound connections between the pole, the body, architecture and space, using personal experience to guide audiences in contemplating “how the body becomes space” and how dance constructs unique performance vocabularies and community connections. The upcoming presentation at #DANCELESS Complex 2026 in Hong Kong further extends this inquiry, inviting local audiences into Cheung’s evolving exploration of pole dance as both personal practice and cultural discourse.

Collision Project: Spin and Click is presented in alignment with Collision Project: Good Boy, Bad Girl.

Click
Creation, Concept & Performance: Chan Wai Lok
Media Designer: Cheng Nga Yan

Stay with the Spin
Choreographer and Performer: Cheung Wai Yin

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Venue: Winchester Street Theatre - 80 Winchester St

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Date of Performance

Date of Performance is a lecture-performance documenting theater and performance practices created inside Iranian prisons from 1954 to 2024. Through interviews with contemporary artists, prison letters, archival materials, and post-release writings, the work explores how imprisoned artists conceived, rehearsed, and staged performances under conditions of isolation and repression.

The project reflects on the absence of performers from official stages and asks whether absence itself can become a performative force. One part of the work focuses on a performer whose only connection to the outside world was through prison telephone calls, creating a fragile relationship between audience and absent performer. Further artistic research examined how volleyball gatherings could be transformed into rehearsal spaces, transforming public space into a site of collective imagination and resistance.

The project was presented in Tehran as a lecture-performance about theater practices inside Iranian prisons, including a public talk at Rooberoo Mansion, and was later presented in Berlin at Ballhaus Ost. The Berlin presentation was supported by Goethe-Institut im Exil.

Date of Performance has also been discussed in critical and academic contexts. Iranian theater scholar Azadeh Sharifi wrote an essay about the work titled Dramaturgy of Absence, which is available online through different platforms and publications.

*The performance of Date of Performance will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: Unread Archives
Director, Writer & Researcher: Maryam Khalili
Voice Performer: Moha
Video Creation: Babak Khalili
Dramaturg & Director’s assistant: Amir Ebrahimzadeh
Translator: Kowsar Rezaie
Sound Designer: Vesal Javaheri
Graphic designer: Maryam Baradaran
International Production & Distribution: Sepehr Sharifzadeh / East-West Divan Arts & Cultural Exchange (France)

Accessibility

*Please note that the elevator to the Franco Boni Theatre is out of service. Audiences will have to climb stairs to access the theatre.*

The performance of Date of Performance will be a Relaxed Environment and offer English-language Captions. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 65 Minutes

Venue: The Theatre Centre Franco Boni Theatre - 1115 Queen St W

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Free Touch: Staging Presence

Free Touch is an artistic practice initiated by choreographer Chou Kuan-Jou in 2024, inviting strangers into one-on-one, consensual touch interactions in public spaces. In 2025, Kuan brought this practice into a theatre, transforming the idea of exploration of touch, public space, and bodily boundaries into the stage work Free Touch: Staging Presence.

It invites audiences to take part in a collective social experiment with all visible and invisible presences within the theatre. Beyond the stroking, tickling, discomfort, or pleasure on the skin, touch becomes a driving force that moves across the boundaries between body and space, the public and private.

Free Touch: Staging Presence encourages audiences to reflect on bodily autonomy, spatial politics, and the ways we navigate proximity, difference, and coexistence.

In this shared theatre environment, boundaries are not fixed limits, but sites of encounter.

Free Touch: Staging Presence is presented in alignment with Free Touch.

Concept & Performance: Chou Kuan Jou
Lighting Design: You Jyun Wang
Sound Design: Cheng Tse Lun
Stage Manager: Sun Wei Chen
Production Advisor & Collaborator: Poshan Wu

Accessibility

This is a Moving Performance with no fixed seating. Please indicate if you require a chair. Please see Sensory Advisories for information about audience participation.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories:

This is a Moving Performance with no fixed seating. Audience members may move freely throughout the space and choose their own viewing positions. A complimentary coat check / bag drop is available at the front desk.

The performance may involve physical contact between performers and audience members, as well as between audience members themselves. For those who prefer not to engage in any physical contact, please request an indicator / wristband from our staff before entering, and we will help maintain your comfortable boundaries.

During the performance, please respect your own and others’ physical boundaries and wishes. If you experience any discomfort or require assistance during the performance, please signal a staff member, and we will assist you immediately.

Duration: 90 Minutes

Venue: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace - 16 Ryerson Avenue

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GPO Box No.211

GPO Box No.211 is a language-free interdisciplinary performance combining object theatre, robotics, and new materialism. The audience is invited to wander through the space. The work is inspired by an exchange of letters with our friend Siu Ming (a pseudonym), who was incarcerated as a political prisoner for three years following the 2019 pro-democracy protests.

GPO Box No.211 was the address used for sending these letters. The performance invites audiences on a journey of visual reflection on themes of freedom of expression, isolation, and communication through the lens of object theatre.

Winner of the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize at Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2024.

*The August 15th / 1:00PM & August 16th / 11:00AM performances of GPO Box No.211 will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: Theatre du Poulet
Co-creator, Director & Light Designer: Carmen Lee
Co-creator, Performer, Mask Designer & Paper Creature Programmer: Chun Shing Au
Dramaturgy Advice: Rebekka Bangerter
Artistic Advice: Sodja Zupanc Lotker
Choreography Advice: Jana Jacuka
Sound Designer: Moa Holgersson
Composer: Marko Ivic

Accessibility

This performance has no fixed seating. Please indicate if you require a chair. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Venue: A Space Gallery - 401 Richmond St W

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Golden Rez Dog

The Golden Rez Dog is a somatic investigation into personal, collective, and ancestral histories. Drawing inspiration from the Cree poem The Old Rez Dog by Francine Merasty and The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, the piece reflects on transformation, memory, and transference of intergenerational knowledge.

This non-linear work explores a cycle of transformation, becoming a “rez dog” and becoming a human again. Cree oral traditions of storytelling are examined in a blend of traditional and contemporary Indigenous dance forms, ideologies, and practices. Literary works of similar themes are questioned and compared. How are experiences documented and knowledge transmitted through generations? 

The Golden Rez Dog explores how current and past stories transform us and shape our history.

*The August 8th / 2:00 PM performance of Golden Rez Dog will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Choreographer & Performer: Marcus Merasty
Sound Artist: George Stamos
Poetry: Francine Merasty
Elder & Cultural Advisor: John Merasty

Accessibility

All performances of Golden Rez Dog will offer Peer Support. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Loud Noises

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Venue: The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance - 304 Parliament Street

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Half of the Moon

A circus arrives at the edge of a city.
A tightrope stretches across the dark.
For a moment, anything feels possible.

Volcano presents the first English language performance of Half of the Moon by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of the most influential playwrights of our time.

This reading marks a continuation of a long artistic relationship between Schimmelpfennig and Ross Manson, who first introduced the German superstar’s work to Toronto at SummerWorks in 2004. Over two decades, their collaboration has shaped some of the city’s most memorable productions.

In Half of the Moon, the travelling circus Narva offers audiences something rare: the chance to believe in transformation. But when the moment of magic takes an unpredictable turn, what remains?

A meditation on expectation, illusion, and the fragile space between hope and reality, this work invites us to consider how more than one thing can be true at the same time.

Stay after the performance for a reception with the cast and company!

Company: Volcano
Performers: Ins Choi, Sébastien Heins, Oyin Oladejo, Anand Rajaram & Bahia Watson
Playwright: Roland Schimmelpfennig
Director: Ross Manson
Sound Designer: John Gzowski

Sensory Advisories: live music

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Venue: The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance - 304 Parliament Street

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Hello Sunshine!

Known for her absurdist, playful and intelligent performance, Sara Porter brings the third of her celebrated memoir-based solos to the SummerWorks Performance Festival. Hello Sunshine! Is a one-woman musical and multidisciplinary dance about living with invisible disability—the social, personal, and logistical challenges of negotiating the particularities of a life avoiding sunlight (featuring original songs sung by Sara on her ‘therap ukelele’).

Over the past 35 years, Sara has lived with a worsening condition called Polymorphous Light Eruption (PMLE), an autoimmune disease that makes her acutely reactive to UV radiation. Through Hello Sunshine! she highlights the complexity of negotiating a condition not visible to others, and plays against the pressure to put on a sunny attitude in the face of struggle.

Created with the internationally renowned Blind artist Alex Bulmer as dramaturg, Hello Sunshine! is designed to be accessible to Blind audiences, through prepared audio description and a touch tour of the set.

*The August 13th performance of Hello Sunshine! will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Choreographer, Writer & Performer: Sara Porter
Co-Producer: Alex Jodi Verge
Technical Director: Franco Pang
Stage Manager: A.J. Morra
Lighting Designer: Rebecca Picherack
Sound Designer: Stephen Joffe
Video/Projection Designer & Choreographic Collaborator: Linnea Swan
Disability Dramaturge & Creative Collaborator: Alex Bulmer
Creative Consultant: Katherine Duncanson
Visual Art Contributor: Elaine Whittaker
Accessibility Facilitator: Lorna Craig
Administrative Assistant: Cass Cabral Pucci
Audio Describer: Lindsay Zier-Vogel

Accessibility

*Please note that the elevator to the Franco Boni Theatre is out of service. Audiences will have to climb stairs to access the theatre.*

The August 13th / 6:00PM performance of Hello Sunshine! will offer closed Audio Description. Please indicate if you require Audio Description to reserve a listening device. Priority will be given to Blind and Low Vision Audience Members.

The August 13th / 6:00PM performance will also offer a pre-show Touch Tour, with priority given to Blind and Low Vision Audience Members.

The August 13th / 6:00pm performance will offer Sighted Guides for Blind and Low Vision Audience Members

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Full nudity, not suitable for audiences under the age of 18.

Duration: 65 Minutes

Venue: The Theatre Centre Franco Boni Theatre - 1115 Queen Street W

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Heritage Building in Prime Location

Through ASL, spoken English and physical storytelling, this housing-market drama and ghost story explores the urban housing crisis and the politics of communication. Join neighbours Zoey, Trisha, and the ghosts of their dilapidated building, as they struggle to reclaim their home.

Set in a historic building targeted for luxury redevelopment, Heritage Building in Prime Location follows the last remaining tenants as they resist a profit-driven landlord determined to displace them.

As unexpected connections emerge through shared sensory experience, the building itself becomes a site of resistance. Centring questions of language, power, displacement and coexistence, the work examines what it means to remain, communicate and survive amid social and architectural gentrification.

Disruptive and at times disorienting, this multi-perspective work is not simply watched—it is felt, as the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to blur.

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*All performances of Heritage Building in Prime Location will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: storm&stress / 1s1 Theatre
Playwright: Raphaela Bardutzky
Creator & ASL Translator: Dawn Jani Birley
Co-Director: MoMo Holt
Co-Director & German-English Translator: Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Performers: Dawn Jani Birley, David Jansen & Hilary Wheeler
Composer, DJ & Sound Designer: David Ariza
Set & Costume Designer: Amanda Wong
Lighting & Projection Designer: Nicole Eun-Ju Bell
Stage Manager: Sally Roberts
Producer for 1s1 Theatre: Meredith Potter

Accessibility

Heritage Building in Prime Location is performed in ASL and English.

All performances will offer a Deaf-led Patron Services team with ASL interpreters on-site.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Venue: Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace - 16 Ryerson Avenue

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Little White Room

An American, a Mexican, and a Canadian walk into a customs detention cell… Little White Room is a new play-in-development – a multilingual, multinational satire that forces you to laugh while it kicks you in the groin and pulls a bag over your head. Three women are trapped together in a purgatorial space where power, injustice, and one dying air vent collide.

*All performances of Little White Room will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: Quote Unquote Collective & El Ingenio del Caldero
Creator & Performer, Choreographer: Vicky Araico
Creator & Performer: Norah Sadava
Creator, Performer, Composer & Director: Amy Nostbakken
Creative Contribution: Lisa Karen Cox
Creative Contribution: Monica Garrido Huerta
Workshop Deviser: Augusto Bitter

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Accessibility

All performances welcome babes in arms to attend. A limited number of baby-sized noise-canceling headphones will be available at the Box Office. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Venue: The Theatre Centre BMO Incubator - 1115 Queen St W

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No(body)

At the “No(body)” clinic patients undergo a series of operational check-ups to achieve a state of being bodiless in efforts to negate the pressures and suffering within our society. Through contemporary dance, and eloquent scriptwriting, the show delves into themes of ambiguous loss and reconciliation. It poses profound questions about how we confront loss that never truly existed and the memories we long to forget, challenging us to confront what we may be at battle with.

This is Syreeta’s second time presenting at SummerWorks. She performed her solo work Black Ballerina in SummerWorks 2019.

*All performances of No(body) will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Creator & Performer: Syreeta Hector
Writer & Performer: J. Adam Brown
Collaborator & Performers: Amaka Umeh, Emily Duckett & Jane Alison McKinney

Accessibility

All performances of No(Body) will be a Relaxed Environment. 

All performances will offer Peer Support. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Venue: Daniels Spectrum Aki Studio - 585 Dundas Street E

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Our Other Organ

A casual lecture transforms into a brutal display as Boaz Barkan digs into a living human body to uncover a new organ – the place where our racism resides.

In this work, Boaz Barkan proposes an alternative narrative to the history of antisemitism and Zionism. Blurring victim and oppressor, the work traces how histories of antisemitism live on within the body – shaping identity, trauma, and violence. It reveals how ideas of superiority and inferiority are internalised, reproduced, and embodied. Set on a stark, clinical stage, a living body becomes both subject and object in an unsettling yet compelling dissection. The result is thought-provoking and strangely humorous – a journey through flesh, history, and ideology.

Provocative and unflinching, Our Other Organ challenges what we carry within us – and what we choose to see.

Company: NoLands
Creator: Boaz Barkan
Performers: Boaz Barkan & Joel Degerfeldt

Accessibility

All performances of Our Other Organ will be a Relaxed Environment.

All performances will offer Peer Support. Audiences are encouraged to check out the Access Guide. 

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 55 Minutes

Venue: The Theatre Centre BMO Incubator - 1115 Queen St W

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PROVISIONS

David, an ordinary broke person in the microgig economy, accepts an odd job: accompany an agentic AI to the moon to retrieve the cast, crew, and data from a failed lunar reality tv show, and return them to earth before they suffocate. A secret VR love affair, a nun digging a gooneral, and all manner of bodily and metaphysical decomposition confirm suspicions that this gig extends far beyond occasionally assisting a bot with slippery door handles.

Physical theatre meets ecstatic body horror in this new work from Lester Trips (Theatre), creators of Honey I’m Home and Public Consumption.

*The August 11th / 6:00PM performance of PROVISIONS will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: Lester Trips (Theatre)
Creator & Performer: Lauren Gillis
Creator & Performer: Alaine Hutton
Dramaturge: Mel Hague
Sound Designer & Composer: S. Quinn Hoodless
Sound Designer & Composer: Drew Thomas
Vocal Composer/Coach & Facilitating Director: Fides Krucker
Lighting Design Consultant: Andre du Toit
Video Design Consultant: Laura Warren
Stage Manager: Pat Lynn
Production Support: Ryan Wilson
Development Producer: Laura Philipps

Accessibility

All performances of PROVISIONS will be a Relaxed Environment.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: Flashing/strobing lights, loud vocalizations/screaming, loud music, minimal use of unscented vape fluid/mini hazer.
Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 50 Minutes

Venue: Factory Theatre Studio Theatre - 125 Bathurst Street

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Retina Maneuver

Why is a Taiwanese military reservist so fascinated by Alicia Keys’ chart-topping hit Girl on Fire – a gay anthem he has sung countless times in karaoke bars? As he launches into the song’s climax, he is struck by a disorienting realization: He can no longer place himself in the timeline of his own life when this transformative song was released on September 4, 2012.

A fanatical search through his digital archives unearths fragments of memory and confronts him with a past haunted by violence and destruction. In a live performance that assembles a visual monument entirely from memory, Wang wrestles with the fragility of memory. No matter how he may try to dull and blur, the weight of the past is a continued threat.

Ping-Hsiang Wang is in a slow-motion trainwreck and you can’t do anything to stop it but watch as an unsettling reality that everything he has preserved could go up in flames in an instant.

*The August 8th / 4:00PM performance of Retina Maneuver will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Company: k*hole Karaoke
Artistic Creator & Performer: Ping-Hsiang Wang, k*hole karaoke
Dramaturgy: Wan Shi
Lighting Designer: Raquel Rosildete
Lighting Assistant: Sára Enyingi
Artistic Producer: Aurora Kellermann
Graphic Designer: Meng-Jiin Hsieh
Stage Support & Consultation: Soojin Oh
Lighting Support & Consultation: Yi-Ju Chou
Assistant Director (Development Stage): Kang-Hua Chang

Accessibility

All performances of Retina Maneuver will offer Peer Support.

You can learn more about SummerWorks' Access Measures HERE.

Sensory Advisories: use of haze/fog; right/flashing/strobe lights; loud music or sudden noises.

Content Advisories: Available here. This link will open to a webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects.

Duration: 55 Minutes

Venue: Daniels Spectrum Aki Studio - 585 Dundas Street E

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