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We regularly support independent projects at various stages of their development. Curious about that? Join our free public presentations at the end of a work-in-progress residency, and meet the artists!
Double Vie
November 20, 2026
Mainstage audience
Double Vie is a bilingual, text-based, multimedia performance. Using projection and poetic narrative in English and French, the show explores how fantasy, kink and language act as sites of rebirth.
A nameless trans surgeon, plagued by paranoia and ancestral ghosts, is mailed a cassette tape by a stranger. Through the explicit and transgressive instructions on the tape, they discover a portal to another self, existing in another timeline, in another culture. Infused with magical realism and analogue nostalgia, Double Vie probes the darkness in sexuality and cultural inheritance, asking if a new city, language, or erotic extreme can transform us.
Playwright: Mateusz West – Dramaturgy: Joanna Garfinkel – Video designer: Nancy Lee 李南屏 – Performance: Anahita Monfared, Rae Takei – Production management: Karter Masuhara – Stage management: Melanie Thompson – With the support of Playwrights Theatre Centre
Content warning: sexually explicit dialogue and narration, including kink and alternative sexual practices.
Free presentation on November 20, 2026
Location: Progress Lab 1422
Time: 7:00 pm
In French
Cholestérol… et autres tendresses (working title)
November 21, 2026
Mainstage audience
If our first love stories have often been told on stage, what happens as we grow older in our hearts (more bruised) and our bodies (a little less firm) when it comes to love and desire remains largely taboo.
Through a mosaic of relationships, Cholestérol… et autres tendresses (working title) explores that stage of life when life is no longer just beginning, but continuing, enduring, unraveling, and transforming. By turns absurd and piercing, these vignettes shine a light on the challenges waiting for us around life’s next corner. Between heartbreaks, heart attacks, aching knees, and children who refuse to mind their own business, the trials and the tenderness of growing older are many.
A celebration of time’s passing, each piece explores a couple’s relationship caught in a ménage à trois with time itself, while tackling some of our most pressing questions: how do we cope when the life we planned begins to change? In what order should we rank our regrets? How many survival strategies does it take to keep everything from falling apart? How do we keep desire alive? Has the countdown already begun? And, like mangoes, do we actually get juicier with age?
One thing is certain: dancing is harder than it used to be. But trust us, we’ve still got the beat.
Creation and performance: Marie-Josée Bastien, Caroline Bélisle, Joey Lespérance, Robert Marinier, France Perras – Original idea: Jean-Marc Dalpé, France Perras – Direction: Marie-Josée Bastien
Free presentation on November 21, 2026
Location: Studio 16
Time: 7:30 pm
In French
