Welcome to Ensemble Theatre Company
We are thrilled to be returning to the Jericho Arts Centre from August 21 to 24 to present MONSTROSITY: Summer Play Reading Festival, featuring dynamic works by celebrated Canadian playwrights Hannah Moscovitch, Jeff Ho, and Francis Dowlatabadi. Each work will showcase a thrilling range of stories that examine identity, the monstrous, and family.
antigone: 方
By Jeff Ho
August 22 and 23 at 7:30 pm
Pay What You Can
An urgently contemporary adaptation of the classic Greek story, antigone: 方 is inspired by the 2014 Umbrella Movement student protests in Hong Kong and the 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square. In antigone: 方, re-education awaits anyone who questions the state's traditional doctrine. Antigone faces high stakes as she stands up for her brother against her father's will. In the courage of a young woman, there is hope for the future.
Little One
By Hannah Moscovitch
August 22 at 7:30 pm
August 24 at 2:00 pm
Pay What You Can
A chilling psychological thriller, Little One is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire—one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable—and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail-order bride.
My Roommate Ahriman
By Francis Dowlatabadi
August 23 at 2:00 pm
Pay What You Can
A young Iranian-Canadian man comes to terms with his sexuality and contends with the disconnection from his culture while inadvertently co- habitating with an ancient Persian spirit of chaos. A new work by Vancouver playwright Francis Dowlatabadi