Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down.

Watch it unfold on the GCTC Mainstage, May 22-25, 2024.

STUFF

A 100 Watt Production, Featuring The Youth Ensemble

Directed by Kristina Watt Villegas

Show art by Sophie Dean

STUFF is about…our stuff. It’s about our attachment to material possessions, consumption, and confusing need with greed. Meanwhile, this living thing called planet Earth pays the price. But you know all this. So. Imagine a time in the future (a future that could be now) in which teens all over the world (TTF’s, Teenage Task Forces) unite with one goal: to eliminate stuff. 

And one more more thing: STUFF is about being human: the “I am because I have”, power imbalances, and the challenge of letting go.

The Waltz 

by Marie Beath Badian

directed by Nina Lee Aquino

A Factory Theatre Production

It’s the 90s and this is a romcom. 

Two Filipino Canadian teenagers — strangers to each other, but with a shared history — spend one evening with a boombox under the big Saskatchewan sky. 

Women of the Fur Trade 

by Frances Koncan

directed by Renae Morriseau

A co-production with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre & Native Earth Performing Arts

Eighteen hundred and something something. A room in a fort on the banks of a Reddish River. This important history is brought to you by Marie-Angelique (a Métis Taurus), Cecilia (a British Virgo), Eugenia (an Ojibwe Sagittarius), Thomas Scott (an Irish Capricorn), and Louis Riel (a Métis Libra).

Benevolence 

by Fanny Britt
translated by Leanna Brodie
directed by Eric Coates

This is Gilles Jean. This is his mother. Those are his brothers. That is his friend, and his friend’s wife. This is the distance between Gilles and goodness. 

What will Gilles do for love?

The Supine Cobbler 

A contemporary clinical abortion in the spirit of a Western

by Jill Connell

directed by Emily Pearlman

The Doctor introduces the gang: The Cobbler (Wanted: name redacted), The Lover, The Dancer, and The Kid. A story about falling off the map of decency and becoming an outlaw. A contemporary female Western. A hero myth for girls.