New Ideas Festival 2016
March 9 – 27, 2016

New Ideas Festival 2016
The New Ideas Festival 2016 is a 3 week festival of exciting new works.
March 9 to 27, 2016:
You’ll see a new program of plays each week. And there is a staged play reading on Saturdays at 12:00 pm. Watch the festival in the Studio at Alumnae Theatre.
Join us to see intriguing characters like: three women mountain climbers at the top of their game, a dysfunctional parent council, three curious housemaids, a group of at-risk kids in a rehab yoga class, a street canvasser, a South American cardinal with a shady past, and Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
Enjoy 3 evenings of original plays and 3 Saturday readings.
Performances: Wednesday to Saturday, 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday matinées, 2:30 pm
You are also invited to stay for the talkback after the Saturday 2:30 pm performance.
Playwrights appreciate the opportunity to hear your feedback, as it informs their creative process.
Please note: Readings will be at 12 noon, each Saturday, followed by a talkback.
2015 2016 Season
WEEK 1
March 9 to 13, 2016
Stuck
directed by Kelsey Laine Jacobson
Prayers to St. George
directed by Meg Moran
The Council
by Deanna Kruger
directed by Claren Grosz
This Will Be My Last Transmission
by Natalie Frijia
directed by Zita Nyarady
Reading:
A Better Place
WEEK 2
Housekeeping
directed by Anne MacMillan
pose ball
directed by Emily Nixon
War and Peace: A Family Story
by Krystyna Hunt
directed by Rebecca Grace
Yeats in Love
by Anne Tait
directed by Jane Carnwath
Reading:
Curved
by Kristin Shepherd
directed by Rebecca Ballarin
WEEK 3
Provenance
directed by Pam Redfern
Trying
by Norma Crawford
directed by Juliet Paperny
Sick Kids Wanna Talk to You
by Carolyn Bennett
directed by Jennifer McKinley
Four Hours
by Joan Burrows
directed by Helen Munroe
Reading:
Omission
by Alice Abracen
directed by Michela Sisti

