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  • Golden Lotus

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    Golden Lotus is an internationally acclaimed musical based on the most infamous Chinese novel of all time, Jin Ping Mei. Its world premiere theatrical production, which received the Hong Kong English Drama Award for Best Original Work, was captured live and has won over 60 international film awar...

  • Twelfth Night (2011) - Yohangza Theatre Company | 십이야

    Movie

    “Femininity” expressed by entirely male actors in Twelfth Night.

    Director Jung-Ung YANG expresses Korea’s innate beauty by interweaving western classics and Korean traditions in this project. He borrows Shakespeare’s plot but the work is recreated to highlight Korean traditions and sensibilities...

  • One Small Visit - Short Film

    Movie

    A heartwarming 30-minute film, One Small Visit, tells the true story of an immigrant Indian family who passes through the Ohio hometown of Neil Armstrong in the wake of the '69 moon landing and the civil rights movement and ends up on the Armstrong doorstep.

    Streaming until May 01, 2025.

    • OSV...

  • Othello
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    Othello

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    WHEN PASSION MEETS POISON.
    Undeterred by the differences in their backgrounds and life experiences, Othello and Desdemona defy prejudice to be united in marriage. But deadly malice lurks where the newlyweds least expect it, as the one man Othello trusts the most resolves to destroy their happine...

  • Serving Elizabeth
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    Serving Elizabeth

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    IN THE SCRIPT OF HISTORY, WHO GETS A SPEAKING ROLE?

    In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern...

  • Death and the King's Horseman

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    The greater the honour, the deeper the shame.

    In British-occupied Nigeria, the king is dead, and it is the duty of his horseman, Elesin (Anthony Santiago), to accompany him into the afterlife. While lustily enjoying the pleasures of this world, Elesin proudly anticipates his transition to the n...

  • New France Series

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    New France, 1660: follow two families, one settler and one Indigenous, over twenty years as they love, scheme, and fight to carve out their place in the New World. A smart, sexy, and radical re-framing of our country’s history from a female and First Nations perspective.

    “Deceitful Above All Thi...

  • Women of the Fur Trade

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    Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. In this lively historical sa...

  • 1939
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    1939

    Movie + 2 extras

    An inspiring journey from page to stage.
    Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a church-run residential school in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All's Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged ...

  • Celebrated Speakers: Bev Sellars | The Meighen Forum

    Author and advocate Bev Sellars formerly served as councilor and chief of Xatśūll (Soda Creek) First Nation in British Columbia. Her memoir, They Called Me Number One, about her experiences in the residential institution St. Joseph's Mission, formed a key part of the research for the play 1939,...