Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage
The Advance Theatre Festival 2024, produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada, is curated by Tricia Trinh. The festival showcases new works written and directed by female identifying and gender non-conforming artists who also identify as BIPOC.
Content Warnings:
Monday, February 5 Grandma. Gangsta. Guerilla. by Abi Padilla
Warning: Coarse language, mentions of sexual assault and war.
Tuesday, February 6 Evina’s Barrier by Aki Yaghoubi
Warning: Childhood traumas, such as rejection and abandonment.
Wednesday, February 7 A Captivating Woman by Natasha Chew
Warning: Sexual content and gun violence.
Thursday, February 8 Attachments by Tricia Trinh
Warning: Mention of smoking, drinking, psychedelics, sexual intimacy, bdsm, homophobia, anti-non-binary sentiment, racism.
Friday, February 9 Leila Roils The Seas by Lily Chang
Warning: Signs, mentions, and/or suggestions of indentured servitude, abuse, substance abuse, domestic violence, body shaming, slut shaming, death/dying, ageism, child abuse, aggression against animals, suicide.
