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Deep in a not-so-distant forest, two small furry animals share a burrow. But one day their happy life falls apart – high treason leads to ...

Teenagers will be taking over the TF! Guided by the bionic artist Anne-Marie Guilmaine, they will seize hold of a remarkable creative process and invent, ...

Onstage are some twenty high school students. With music, images and movement, they reveal their rich inner lives throbbing under the surface: obsessive desires, a ...

The restless, inquiring mind of performer-creator Tedd Robinson – an NAC Associate Dance Artist and Ottawa favourite – has resulted in innovative work blazing with ...

An Anxious government clerk meets a strange lookalike who is daring, romantic, and brash – a success at everything the clerk fumbles. Is it really ...

After her Daddy dies suddenly, Amélie refuses to talk. Yet in the silence words are very much alive. Even better, they bring to life bold ...

Mountain-sized courage sometimes comes in small packages. Young Nuna can hear the spirits of nature – but can she answer a soaring mountain’s cry of ...

To mark World Theatre Day, Marcelle Dubois, Brigitte Haentjens and Anne-Marie Olivier are organizing a spirited event that will celebrate language. They will give the ...

Coming out to yourself can be as hard as sharing it with others. Tawiah M’Carthy’s captivating hero is caught between worlds – gay and straight, ...

Through the sheer force of his imagination, a little boy transforms a dusty old living room into a fabulous archipelago. Objects spring to life and ...

Consisting of a series of short, bizarre forms, this piece flirts with the irrational and the fantastic. Monologues, an absurd tune and madcap poems spew ...

One apple core, two wigs, three garlands, four party hats, five stories, six songs and a drum! That’s all it takes to create a joyful ...

Nigeria’s Qudus Onikeku creates movement fusing dance and acrobatics to explore cultural identity and the human condition. This award-winning solo is a penetrating, high-energy work ...

Pierre-Guy Blanchard is an Acadian. Pierre-Guy B. is a percussionist. Pierre-Guy B. is a traveller. Pierre-Guy B. is onstage, instruments in hand. Accompanied by Christian ...

An evening of music inspired by the Winter Solstice and the holiday season.Ten new songs and some older songs written by Lynn Miles, on the ...

Funny and upbeat, with just a pinch of sass, the Good Lovelies‘ textbook three-part harmonies, constant instrument swapping and witty stage banter have enlivened the ...

Inspired by one of the key figures of Western drama, Jérémie Niel probes the intimate cavities of our founding values. With an economy of words ...

A seductive performer. An innovative songwriter. Alejandra Ribera draws her audience into an intimate world of abandoned satellites, deep sea landscapes and mythical deities. A ...

In a two-sided room, a pianist and his accomplice join forces to revive the soul of John Cage. Acoustic juggling and visual acrobatics are combined ...

Wonderfully witty, and just downright fun, A Craigslist Cantata is a chamber musical exploring contemporary humanity through online classified ads. A window on the collective ...

In Un, Mani described exile and the many miles travelled, the distance impossible to fill. For Deux, the artist has invited to join him onstage ...

6 months to age 5 – On the banks of a shimmering landscape that floats between dreams and consciousness, toddlers are swathed in a soothing ...

Two of Vancouver’s hottest young choreographic talents shine in an evening of high-energy dance conceived especially for the NAC. In Josh Martin’s dramatic solo, Leftovers, ...

Five thirtysomethings engage in verbal jousting structured by the architecture of social media: a collection of virtual friends, an inventory of favourite quotes, a list ...

He was born on a Thursday. Vegetable soup day. Suzanne Lebeau offers a different take on Hansel and Gretel. Oh, the parents, the forest, the ...

Get up from your seat, leave the theatre behind and come along on a voyage of discovery! Inspired by local residents and their stories of ...

Video games meet the Trickster as Cliff Cardinal conjures a theatrical storm. His one-man tour de force is wrenching yet darkly comic, a journey into ...

Evelyne de la Chenelière wanted to speak with Marie Cardinal, to engage in a dialogue with her practice and her ideas. So she immersed herself ...

Montreal’s Virginie Brunelle is known for male-female relationships in a post-romantic world. Her highly physical, flesh-baring works are distinctly contemporary, yet with a beautifully textured ...

When you have no place to go, your only option is to make somewhere up, invent it yourself. In a quiet little town grown even ...

Emptiness doesn’t necessarily mean there’s something missing—not to me, anyway. From Tehran’s starry nights to the Perseids over Caraquet by way of Paris, Toronto, Ottawa ...

A scorching exposé of corporate madness, ENRON is corrosively funny and exuberantly theatrical. The infamous Enron scandal (greed + ambition + fraud = financial ruin) ...

Rising features exciting young British- Indian Kathak dancer Aakash Odedra performing to perfection in solo works created especially for him. By encouraging top-ranked choreographers Akram ...

Experience the riveting mastery of an incomparable artist. Vincent Mantsoe’s Afro-fusion mixes traditional African dance with contemporary Western street styles/martial arts to create an exhilarating ...

For Véronique Côté, creating theatre for babies is like trying to talk to the beginning of time. At the end of a path edged with ...

Mister Wolf, are you there? Three acrobats/actors/clowns take the stage to create three funny and appealing characters: Miss Black, Miss Blond and Mister Chestnut, students ...

It penetrates silence, permeates loss and rejection, lurks beneath the surface of waiting and solitude, blazes forth in individual and collective violence. Pain is everywhere, ...

My name is Éthienne, with an “h,” and my story starts out badly. What a family! Éthienne has 56 brothers, a giddy mother and a ...

An emotional and physical reaction to weather is one of the few remaining connections between humans and the natural world. This atmospheric and arresting new ...

A column of smoke quickly rose into the air… and Kurt bursts into flames, blazing like the countless fires he has set. Impetuous German playwright ...

I am a round thing surrounded by other round things, hanging on a tree surrounded by other trees. Once upon a time there was an ...

The Raven dances, the Raven sings, the Raven always has something to say. From the time Inuit lived a nomadic life, the Raven has inhabited ...

Peggy Baker returns to the NAC with her ensemble of exquisite dancers to celebrate the power and poetry of contemporary dance and live music. Joined ...

Peggy Baker returns to the NAC with her ensemble of exquisite dancers to celebrate the power and poetry of contemporary dance and live music. Joined ...

“Nothing like this has ever happened in Scandinavia, but I’m convinced that sooner or later it will,” said the author of this piece Lars Norén ...

Known for their extreme, near violent physicality and emotionally explosive dance-theatre, Netherlands-based company T.R.A.S.H. make their NAC debut with two heart-pounding, intoxicating duets. Performed to ...