London, 2017: A couple buys a house and decides to have a baby, but something is wrong with this picture. Simon Stone’s modern adaptation of Fredrico Lorca’s 'Yerma' tells the story of one woman’s downward spiral, and promises discussions of anal sex, bickering sisters, cheating husbands, and mad wives. Something rotten this way comes.
DIRECTED BY ADAM ZANIN
Note for Attendees: Our show will still be held in the Players' Theatre space. Due to the closure of the rest of the SSMU University Centre, ticket scanning on Wednesday and Thursday will happen at the front doors of the SSMU building. As we have had some issues with this Eventbrite, if you are unable to access your ticket simply give your name at the door to the Players' Executive.
PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY. If when you arrive you are not able to enter the building as the doors are locked, please wait outside, a Front of House Executive will open the doors momentarily.
The 20th McGill Drama Festival is here!
Here at Players’ we affectionately consider MDF to be the best time of the year. Five student-written and directed plays, all going onstage in the space of a week? And a Round Robin of all five in a row?? What could be better than that?
Directed by Henry Kemeny-Wodlinger
Written by Michael Healy and Kate Lynch
Two shows in one: “Yodellers” is a play about golf and love, or is it about the love of golf? Perhaps the two may not be so different after all… while “Kreskinned” is a journey into what a little hypnotism can do to revive a heart… But both are about one sexy, impulsive choice: The one you’d never make because it’s just not rational. The one you dream about in the corners of your mind.
Atreus and Thyestes, two brothers who are feuding for control of the city of Argos, come head to head in a new production of Seneca’s Thyestes. Balancing the timeless themes of revenge, morality, and leadership, Thyestes is both a thoughtful reflection on power systems and cycles of violence and an entertaining thriller.
With enough blood and dead children to go around, Thyestes is not to be missed! Buy tickets today!
Welcome back to the flashiest celebration of student excellence on campus: The McGill Drama Festival is delighted to be returning, bright eyed and bushy tailed, for the 2023 season! Over the week of March 27th - 31st, come take a look at any of our six never-before-seen, student written plays - or watch all of them with the extra perk of dinner at our March 31st Round Robin. We’ve got several splendid spectacles this year, and we can’t wait for you to join us in welcoming them to the stage!
A touching yet funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably.
A small town girl, Sara, just moved to the big city of New York, and finds herself in need of a cat sitter, Callie, now a New York local who offers her help, thus begins their transformative friendship. Over the weeks they spend together, getting to know eachother, both start to develop more than friendly feelings towards the other, until one night changes both the status of their relationship and their lives forever. Sara is assaulted by a bystander that witnesses their first kiss and is so horribly injured she ends up in a coma. What will this mean for Sara? For Callie? For them both?
Come find out!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/stop-kiss-tickets-444134798137
What the Butler Saw is a HILARIOUS, repulsive, GLEEFUL, manic, WONDERFUL, filthy new play and you can BUY TICKETS NOW!
Come see the wild attempts of the lecherous DR. PRENTICE as he seduces the comely GERALDINE, the wicked schemes of the brutish DR. RANCE, and witness, live on stage, the rising TRANSSEXUAL MENACE!!!
It runs NOVEMBER 9-11, will you catch it?
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-the-butler-saw-tickets-444136964617
Join us on McGill University's campus for a student play at Players' Theatre. "4.48 Psychosis" directed by Basile Guichard.
Join us on McGill University's campus for a student play at Players' Theatre. "An Inspector Calls" directed by Alexa Marston.
The McGill Drama Festival is an entirely student written, produced, performed, and directed drama festival featuring six student written plays of various genres. A group of judges will select the best script and award the playwright a prize on the last day of the festival, Friday March 25th.
Ernest T. MacDougall is guilty. He took his filthy rich clients for millions, and he's not a bit sorry about it. This outrageous courtroom farce follows the hapless litigators defending and prosecuting him as they navigate uncooperative witnesses, shifty double-dealings, and restrictive standards of courtroom attire. Expect witty zingers, fart jokes, excessive objections, bizarre love triangles, and the odd bit of actual legal procedure. In short, if you're looking for serious realist drama, look elsewhere. If all you want is to laugh (a lot)... see you in court.
Metanoia: a transformative change of heart. This play is a tale of heroes and villains. When the venerated Hero comes to kill the cruel Villain, they learn that perhaps the Gods they bow down to are not as well intentioned as they believed. Through a series of flashbacks, we are told the story of the all-mighty Villain and what led to their fate of evil. Evil does not arise without a cause, and what better cause for evil than a tragic love story?
Lazarus is born as a man in 14th century and dies as a woman in 21st century. But the premise of the play is slightly more nuanced as we do not just follow the journey of one character across time, but through Lazarus we follow the trajectory of poetry across the centuries. Torn by love and driven by loss, our protagonist weaves together the voices of many poets across the centuries in an endeavour to find a voice of his own. A love letter to literature, Lazarus is a larger attempt to make poetry accessible to everyone.
What happens after we die? Super simple question! Glad you asked. Everyone Is Annoying explores this really dumb query in 40 minutes of pure fun! Follow Blair in her journey through afterlife, and get to know the folks she meets along the way.
The Ward is a play that follows an unconventional romance as it unfolds within the gloomy walls of an American psychiatric facility in the 1950s. The play sees Charlotte and Ben—brought together by their trauma, respective mental illnesses and shared passion for literature—pursue comfort and escape in a relationship as they struggle towards healing. This process of healing—they are patients, after all—is overseen by the benevolent and ambitious Dr. Avery, founder of the facility. Meditative and psychological, The Ward takes its liberties to explore concepts like normalcy, the passage of time, true love and sanity.
While trying to endure a suspiciously boring summer job, Jennifer 18 and a fellow university student, Asher Jones, are brought face to face with the terrible reality of POSTMODERNISM. Time travel, poultry products, and unintelligible professors notwithstanding, the two university students are forced to face the unpredictable repercussion of late-consumer capitalism and all its unavoidable, unexplainable, irreconcilable intellectually-un-imbibable glory.
The micro drama Breathing Space by Yvette Nolan written for the 2019 Climate Change Theatre Action is a post-apocalyptic play set in a future where the environment is completely destroyed and nothing new is produced anymore.
Ten guests are invited to an island under false pretences and find themselves stuck while an unknown host starts murdering them one by one.
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime? Yasmina Reza’s hilarious, Tony award-winning play begs the question: do we ever really grow up?
