transVersing

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero The voices of some of our city’s most vibrant trans youth take centre stage in this incredible evening where fiddle meets Shakespeare meets slam poetry meets soapbox rant. You do not want to miss this stellar show that challenges preconceptions about the trans experience and bursts hearts wide open. “The final frontier […]

HUFF

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero March 13-17, 2019LSPU Hall Huff is the wrenching, yet darkly comic tale of Wind and his brothers, caught in a torrent of solvent abuse and at high risk of suicide. Wind’s fantastic dream world bleeds into his haunting reality, as he’s preyed on by the Trickster through the hallways at school, the […]

Revisor

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Feb. 14, 2020 St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre  Artistic Fraud, in association with Neighbourhood Dance Works and the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre, is proud to present Revisor by Vancouver’s Kidd Pivot.Jonathon Young and Crystal Pite revise an archetypal comic plot to serve as the basis for choreography in a true hybrid […]

One Hour Photo

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, the people that brought us the beautiful Empire of the Son, are back and with a special virtual presentation of their latest show. Written and performed by Tetsuro Shigematsu, 1 Hour Photo is the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of […]

Ephemera

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero A conversation with the past, and an invitation to listen. Five of Atlantic Canada’s finest writers engage with legendary Bonavista Biennale artworks that transformed our relationship to the landscape  forever. These short audio pieces, available through free located-audio phone app, provide a beautiful and wholly original way of thinking about the physical impermanence, […]

The Other Side of This

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Husky Energy presents The Other Side of This Part treasure hunt, part radio play, a hauntingly original experience. Artistic Fraud invites you to discover a secret city, as conjured by some of Newfoundland’s finest writers. The internal world of a diverse array of characters is brought alive inside your car in intimate […]

Sea Sick

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero It makes up most of the planet; it “contains the switch of life.” So why do we know and care so little about the sea? Sea Sick is journalist Alanna Mitchell’s telling of her three-year, global odyssey into ocean health and science. Inspired by her international bestseller and award-winning book of the […]

Salvage: Story of a House

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Salvage was our second of three collaborations with novelist and poet Michael Crummey. Based on his book of poetry, Salvage, our stage production was about what inhabits the places we live, the worlds we move in to when we move into a house, the generations who have been here before us. We […]

Belly Up

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Funny and poignant exploration of fear, loneliness and responsibility: Belly Up. A blind man is terrified of leaving his home. But he has a little mouth to feed, and he is quickly running out of fish food. Digital video and an original score play backdrop to this one-man audio visual feast. Playwright/actor […]

Fear of Flight

skip render: ucaddon_title_hero Fear of Flight is a movement and music spectacle that traces fourteen nervous passengers on a bumpy transcontinental flight. An otherwise tough teen faces her first flight on a plane to visit her dying mother in Florida. A woman departs on her honeymoon despite her husband having died before the ceremony. A […]