Recovery – Korean Premiere
Artistic Director Stacey Christodoulou was invited to direct the Korean premiere of Recovery by Canadian playwright Greg MacArthur. Set in rehab centre Antarctica, Recovery offers a profound exploration of a highly medicalized and corporatized society, wielding fear as a mechanism of control. It was featured as part of the 6th Annual Global Women Performing Arts Festival, with six performances at the Adapter Theatre (June 12-16, 2025), followed by two performances at the Haleunyoen Theatre at Busan Cinema Centre (June 28-29, 2025).
All Flesh REDUX
A revisitaton of our pre-pandemic work, All Flesh is Grass in a post-pandemic age. Combining polyphonic singing, dance, and theatre, All Flesh REDUX is a poetic journey through time and space. Part sing-a-long, Dadaist performance piece, as well as a love letter to our planet, the work enfolds the public an intimate theatre-in-the-round setting where […]
How We Lost Control Of… [lab]
The Other Theatre presents How We Lost Control Of… a public lab where the audience is invited into our company’s creative process. This performance marks our first foray into the post-COVID world, offering a space for exploration and discovery.
Les Troyennes
First produced in 415 BC for the City Dionysia, Euripides’ masterpiece follows the fates of the renowned Trojan women after the immediate sacking of Troy. As they wait on the shore to be taken from their homeland as slaves, the women speak about the horrors of war and lament the fall of the great […]
Danser jusqu’à saigner le ciel
A powerful monologue on surviving sexual violence, Danser jusqu’à saigner le ciel by Haitian writer Darline Gilles premieres in video at the inaugural Global Women Performing Arts Festival in South Korea. Directed by Stacey Christodoulou, a 15-minute excerpt is featured in The Other Theatre’s Digital Bardo season, launched in response to the pandemic—a year when […]
All Flesh is Grass
Can we still look at the stars and dream? Combining theatre, dance and polyphonic singing, this bilingual creation from The Other Theatre asks what acts of faith are possible in an uncertain world. A meditation encompassing medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut and contemporary composer John Cage, as well as stories from an unknowable past and […]
Province
“The forest’s advance, the animals’ unnatural frenzy, that horrific vision. I’m starting to connect the dots and the big picture is dreadful” – Hide It’s getting warmer; you can smell the fear in the air. Nature is running amok. Climate change or a much darker, transfiguring force? Province takes audiences on a thrilling, unsettling […]
Love U Lovecraft: The Color Out of Space
“The oldest and strongest emotion in mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft You’re somewhere but you don’t know wherePeople stare at you but you don’t know who they areYou feel guilty but you don’t know what you didSomething is hidden but […]
Réhabilitation
The Other Theatre presents the Quebec French-language premiere of Greg MacArthur’s richly allusive and evocative work. An allegory for our times, Recovery warns against the suppression of individuality in the face of conformity, consumerism, and the pursuit of comfort at any cost.
Macbeth
After two sold-out runs, The Other Theatre revisited Shakespeare’s tale of ambition, murder and magic. In a land ravaged by war, a loyal soldier is tempted to seize power at all costs. An honorable man turned tyrant through greed and desire, Macbeth pits himself against the natural order, his rise and fall brought to […]