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Multidisciplinary , Cabaret, Variety Show - Incoming 2024

Bite Sized

Curated and hosted by Peaches N Screams This new works cabaret features short new works, and works-in-development from local multidisciplinary artists, curated and hosted by local drag artist Peaches N Screams. Full of new stories, and fresh perspectives, these three new, short works blend genres and take you on a wild ride.

Location Metro Studio

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Physical Theatre, Storytelling, Spoken Word - Winter/Spring24

Black & Rural

Black & Rural is the story of a lone Black country woman struggling to defy the monolith of what matters to Black lives. Derived from dozens of real-life interviews with Black folk tucked away on the countryside across Canada, Shayna Jones weaves together a story of vulnerability, quiet triumph, and striking humanity. The show features Shayna's unique storytelling voice, interspersed with new folkloric tales and verbatim reflections from her interviewees.

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Comedy, Drama, Storytelling - Incoming 2024

Deafy

Deaf public speaker, Nathan Jesper has arrived at his venue, desperately late. As he launches into his speech, he soon realizes that things are not what they seem. A new play by Deaf artist Chris Dodd, Deafy skillfully combines ASL, subtitles and the spoken word to weave together a tragicomedy that takes the audience on an unexpected journey of discovering what it really means to belong. "Dodd is an ace storyteller, a master of those wry eyebrow lifts and rueful shrugs that, along with precision comic timing, set the old school comedians apart." -Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Accessibility The show features integrated accessibility. It is presented in ASL, English and captions and Deaf, hearing and hard of hearing audiences can participate equally. Sensory Warnings: None Content Warnings: Coarse language, mentions of bullying & self-harm* *(show spoilers ahead) Ambiguous allusion to character suicide, not explicit. Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Chris Dodd - Writer / Performer Ashley Wright - Director Sarah Karpyshin - Production Designer / Surtitlist Rory Turner - Associate Lighting Designer / Surtitlist Dave Clarke - Sound Designer Ainsley Hillyard - Movement Coach Erin Hayes - Stage Manager Amorena Bartlett - ASL Coach Joshua Meredith - Vocal Coach Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Puppetry - Incoming 2024

Epidermis Circus

“Hansen turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny.” A spicy puppet cabaret, hosted by a sassy grandma who keeps trying to steal the show. This beautifully twisted variety show is performed by Ingrid Hansen, who also puppeteers for Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock. Watch behind-the-scenes as Hansen performs a live puppet film, animating cheeky vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a huge screen. “Both live and magnified on screen, in cunningly angled cameras and mirrors, we see Hansen create characters from her own hands, fingers, tongue, in a saucy and jostling vaudeville of ‘stars’. NUTTY, INGENIOUS, MESMERIZING.” - 12th Night. “Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! ★★★★★” - Free Press. Tiny stories emerge that celebrate the hilarious impossibility of being alive and having a body: these fragile bags of meat and bone, carry us from place to place and allow us to laugh and snort and feel. SNAFU’s work has been compared to Wes Anderson and David Lynch, yet “hilarious, absurd and profoundly human,” (the Star Phoenix Newspaper.) SPICY, FOR AGE 14+. “★★★★★. Imagine Shari Lewis possessed by David Lynch” - Free Press. “GENIUS PHYSICAL COMEDY!” - Entertainment World. WINNER - Ed Fringe HoldOver Award "Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and surprising...Her physicality is impeccable." - The Star Phoenix “Unbelievably funny.” - PLANK Magazine “Unbelievably charismatic.” - The Charlebois Post https://vimeo.com/867525359 This project was created with support from the CRD Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Early development was also supported by the National Arts Centre's #CanadaPerforms initiative, and the OAC Theatre Creators Reserve as recommended by the Puppetmongers. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Sudden loud noises, dark lighting, loud music, surprises. Content Warnings: Adult themes, coarse language, Mentions, themes, or depictions of violence* *Puppet suicide Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Produced by SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles Co-Created & Directed by Britt Small Co-Created & Performed by Ingrid Hansen Co-Produced by, and with creative contributions from, Kathleen Greenfield Costume Design by JIMBO The Drag Clown (James Insell) Puppetry coaching by Mike Petersen & Rod Peter Jr Jokes from Anand Rajaram and Victor Dolhai Erin Hayes - Stage Manager Amorena Bartlett - ASL Coach Joshua Meredith - Vocal Coach Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Multidisciplinary - Incoming 2024

Intrepid Idea Series

The Idea Series returns: join us for our Get Into It: Idea Series with workshops and events woven throughout the festival designed to teach you something new, open up your mind, and keep the party going! Accessibility Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. About the Events The Creator Show n' Tell Saturday, April 13, 12:30pm Location: The Festival Hub Join us and your fellow local creators for an intimate sharing of work-in-progress. Bring 5 minutes of content– any content!– and present for your fellow show n’ tell-ers. This is an opportunity to share your work with fellow creatives, while having facilitated concrete feedback that you can use for the development of your work. https://intrepidtheatre.wufoo.com/forms/creator-show-n-tell-2024-registration/  Play-Doh Dramaturgy Workshop With Nathaniel Hanula-James Location: The Festival Hub Are you a theatre-maker in the early stages of creating a new work? Are you seeking a deeper understanding of playwriting foundations? Is there a character or voice that you would like to explore in more depth? Then this workshop is for you! In a series of fast-paced, playful exercises, participants will explore the world of their play and deepen the iceberg of their writing. Pitch Jam Workshop With Dustin Harvye Saturday, April 20, 2pm Location: The Festival Hub This workshop aims to provide artists with the essential skills of creating and pitching concepts in the theatre industry, involving interactive exercises that promote dialogue, collaboration, and critical evaluation of ideas. By the end of the workshop, participants will have developed individual and/or group pitches, which they will present for feedback. Free Youth OUTreach Tickets: A limited number of free tickets for queer youth and allies. Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Interdisciplinary - Incoming 2024

LESS+MORE

LESS + MORE is a performance that uses past audience feedback collected over the last decade of Secret Theatre to create a new performance. Dustin has been thinking about his life, about all the audiences he has stood in front of, danced with, looked into the eyes of and walked through the city streets. He has written the audience a letter, part love-letter part breakup note. Over an hour or so, he will read and reread this letter over and over again. Each time, his performance will be transformed by following the advice of his former audience members. The performance will contain less eyes closed parts, less clothes, and less endings. There will be more beer, more dancing, more confetti. If that sounds like a mashup, that’s because it is. It is also an attempt at the impossible, at achieving perfection, or at least a shared moment of grace together. DRAMATURG’S STATEMENT As long as I have known him, Dustin’s work has had a kind of fearlessness to it. Unafraid to be different, to take risks, to be nakedly sentimental, defiantly hopeful, to exist literally and figuratively at the very edge of Canada’s theatre establishment. Less + More is all those things. It is a show that only Dustin could have made - courageously honest, wildly innovative, sad and silly and beautiful all at the same time. It is an attempt to consider the biggest possible questions about our lives and how we choose to live them in a way so charming and playful it could be the set-up for a party game, rather than the premise for an hour of theatre. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Audience interaction/participation Content warnings: May contain partial nudity (underwear) Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Created by Dustin Harvey (Dartmouth, NS) Dramaturgy by Andy Field (London, UK) Project Mentor: Dr. Tom Payne, Doppelgangster (Sheffield, UK) Residency Support: Iceland Academy for the Arts in Reykjavik Funded by ArtsNS, The City of Halifax, Canada Council For The Arts Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Comedy, Storytelling - Incoming 2024

Malunderstood

“A Fringe gem and not to be missed” - Beyond James (Hamilton, On) A grandmother should spoil you from time to time, no? Well, not Kenny Streule's grandmother. Immerse yourself in a collection of memories that explain how Kenny was raised by a wild beaver. Using comedy, puppetry and movement, he examines his relationship with his Swiss German grandmother. Winner of the Best New Artist Award at FESTN4 2024 presented by the Orlando Fringe. "Streule is authentically charming in an amiably awkward way." - Orlando Weekly "The charismatic Streule does not fail in delivering exactly the show that will delight Fringe regulars and casual theatergoers alike" - Orlando Performer "Streule has the peppy personality to win the audience over." - Orlando Sentinel “Malunderstood is a fantastic one-man story, that’s almost like sitting with your best-friend through 45-minutes of therapy.” - Curtainsup.tv, Montreal Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Audience interaction/participation Content warnings: Themes of bullying Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Written & Performed by Kenny Streule Directed by Amy Blackmore Dramaturgy provided by Jesse Stong, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal Lighting Design by Ian W. Klempan Puppet Design by Jessica Alley Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Puppetry, Cabaret - Incoming 2024

The Baby Tyler Show

Created and performed by Ingrid Hansen When you’re small, how do you live in a world designed for big people? Watch Baby Tyler discover his unique super powers to solve problems.

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Comedy, Puppetry - Incoming 2024

Untitled Flamingo Play

Moving, hilarious, incredibly intelligent, cute as hell, and exactly what I needed right now! - Audience Reaction, OutFest 2023 Hilarious, whimsical, and charming, Untitled Flamingo Play is a love letter to queer kids, and their right to be as fabulous as they flocking well please. On the first day of Grade 3, two outcast kiddoes receive an assignment—find a role model for the rest of your life! Can they find queer icons and express their authentic selves in the face of toxic masc bullies, femme-phobic grownups, and the sinister forces of heterocisnormativity? A foul- mouthed toy flamingo might hold the answer. We acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts. Untitled Flamingo Play first premiered at Talk is Free Theatre in 2022. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: None. Content Warnings: Coarse language, adult themes Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Nathaniel Hanula-James — Writer/performer Caitlin Farley — Stage manager Jacob Margaret Archer — Dramaturg Ryan Wilcox — Lighting/sound designer Hannah Fisher — Costume/Props designer Phoebe Hu 胡馨勻 — Movement and Puppetry Dramaturg/Choreographer Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Comedy, Multidisciplinary , Cabaret, Physical Theatre, Clown - Incoming 2024

tony wrestles a stranger

tony wrestles a stranger is a surreal family reunion that is like a hot dog eating contest meets an MFA thesis project. Through physical challenges like 15 minutes of burpees or eating a pack of hotdogs, tony explores and interrogates their various axis’ of identity in a performance that is visceral and tender. All crafted so that tony and their dad, who hopefully shows up, can finally have some father-kid moments they have missed out on. This is a very deliberate display of daddy issues. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Sudden loud noises, audience interaction/participation Content Warnings: Adult themes; themes surrounding consent; mentions, themes, or depictions of violence and sexual violence*; discussion of body/fatphobia; brief potentially disturbing images** *Sexual violence is abstractly expressed through a werewolf metaphor **A dog eating its own excrement Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Tony Adams: Creator / Performer / Producer Cory Thibert: Director / Creative Contributor / Stage Manager Nicole Malcolm: Dramaturge / Lighting Designer Dave Morris: Directorial Consultant Geoff Malcolm: Fight Director Funders/sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Belfry Theatre Incubator Program Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Multidisciplinary , Cabaret, Variety Show - Incoming 2024

Bite Sized

Curated and hosted by Peaches N Screams This new works cabaret features short new works, and works-in-development from local multidisciplinary artists, curated and hosted by local drag artist Peaches N Screams. Full of new stories, and fresh perspectives, these three new, short works blend genres and take you on a wild ride.

Location Metro Studio

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Physical Theatre, Storytelling, Spoken Word - Winter/Spring24

Black & Rural

Black & Rural is the story of a lone Black country woman struggling to defy the monolith of what matters to Black lives. Derived from dozens of real-life interviews with Black folk tucked away on the countryside across Canada, Shayna Jones weaves together a story of vulnerability, quiet triumph, and striking humanity. The show features Shayna's unique storytelling voice, interspersed with new folkloric tales and verbatim reflections from her interviewees.

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Comedy, Drama, Storytelling - Incoming 2024

Deafy

Deaf public speaker, Nathan Jesper has arrived at his venue, desperately late. As he launches into his speech, he soon realizes that things are not what they seem. A new play by Deaf artist Chris Dodd, Deafy skillfully combines ASL, subtitles and the spoken word to weave together a tragicomedy that takes the audience on an unexpected journey of discovering what it really means to belong. "Dodd is an ace storyteller, a master of those wry eyebrow lifts and rueful shrugs that, along with precision comic timing, set the old school comedians apart." -Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Accessibility The show features integrated accessibility. It is presented in ASL, English and captions and Deaf, hearing and hard of hearing audiences can participate equally. Sensory Warnings: None Content Warnings: Coarse language, mentions of bullying & self-harm* *(show spoilers ahead) Ambiguous allusion to character suicide, not explicit. Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Chris Dodd - Writer / Performer Ashley Wright - Director Sarah Karpyshin - Production Designer / Surtitlist Rory Turner - Associate Lighting Designer / Surtitlist Dave Clarke - Sound Designer Ainsley Hillyard - Movement Coach Erin Hayes - Stage Manager Amorena Bartlett - ASL Coach Joshua Meredith - Vocal Coach Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Puppetry - Incoming 2024

Epidermis Circus

“Hansen turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny.” A spicy puppet cabaret, hosted by a sassy grandma who keeps trying to steal the show. This beautifully twisted variety show is performed by Ingrid Hansen, who also puppeteers for Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock. Watch behind-the-scenes as Hansen performs a live puppet film, animating cheeky vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a huge screen. “Both live and magnified on screen, in cunningly angled cameras and mirrors, we see Hansen create characters from her own hands, fingers, tongue, in a saucy and jostling vaudeville of ‘stars’. NUTTY, INGENIOUS, MESMERIZING.” - 12th Night. “Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! ★★★★★” - Free Press. Tiny stories emerge that celebrate the hilarious impossibility of being alive and having a body: these fragile bags of meat and bone, carry us from place to place and allow us to laugh and snort and feel. SNAFU’s work has been compared to Wes Anderson and David Lynch, yet “hilarious, absurd and profoundly human,” (the Star Phoenix Newspaper.) SPICY, FOR AGE 14+. “★★★★★. Imagine Shari Lewis possessed by David Lynch” - Free Press. “GENIUS PHYSICAL COMEDY!” - Entertainment World. WINNER - Ed Fringe HoldOver Award "Immensely funny, creative, uproarious and surprising...Her physicality is impeccable." - The Star Phoenix “Unbelievably funny.” - PLANK Magazine “Unbelievably charismatic.” - The Charlebois Post https://vimeo.com/867525359 This project was created with support from the CRD Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Early development was also supported by the National Arts Centre's #CanadaPerforms initiative, and the OAC Theatre Creators Reserve as recommended by the Puppetmongers. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Sudden loud noises, dark lighting, loud music, surprises. Content Warnings: Adult themes, coarse language, Mentions, themes, or depictions of violence* *Puppet suicide Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Produced by SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles Co-Created & Directed by Britt Small Co-Created & Performed by Ingrid Hansen Co-Produced by, and with creative contributions from, Kathleen Greenfield Costume Design by JIMBO The Drag Clown (James Insell) Puppetry coaching by Mike Petersen & Rod Peter Jr Jokes from Anand Rajaram and Victor Dolhai Erin Hayes - Stage Manager Amorena Bartlett - ASL Coach Joshua Meredith - Vocal Coach Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Multidisciplinary - Incoming 2024

Intrepid Idea Series

The Idea Series returns: join us for our Get Into It: Idea Series with workshops and events woven throughout the festival designed to teach you something new, open up your mind, and keep the party going! Accessibility Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. About the Events The Creator Show n' Tell Saturday, April 13, 12:30pm Location: The Festival Hub Join us and your fellow local creators for an intimate sharing of work-in-progress. Bring 5 minutes of content– any content!– and present for your fellow show n’ tell-ers. This is an opportunity to share your work with fellow creatives, while having facilitated concrete feedback that you can use for the development of your work. https://intrepidtheatre.wufoo.com/forms/creator-show-n-tell-2024-registration/  Play-Doh Dramaturgy Workshop With Nathaniel Hanula-James Location: The Festival Hub Are you a theatre-maker in the early stages of creating a new work? Are you seeking a deeper understanding of playwriting foundations? Is there a character or voice that you would like to explore in more depth? Then this workshop is for you! In a series of fast-paced, playful exercises, participants will explore the world of their play and deepen the iceberg of their writing. Pitch Jam Workshop With Dustin Harvye Saturday, April 20, 2pm Location: The Festival Hub This workshop aims to provide artists with the essential skills of creating and pitching concepts in the theatre industry, involving interactive exercises that promote dialogue, collaboration, and critical evaluation of ideas. By the end of the workshop, participants will have developed individual and/or group pitches, which they will present for feedback. Free Youth OUTreach Tickets: A limited number of free tickets for queer youth and allies. Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Interdisciplinary - Incoming 2024

LESS+MORE

LESS + MORE is a performance that uses past audience feedback collected over the last decade of Secret Theatre to create a new performance. Dustin has been thinking about his life, about all the audiences he has stood in front of, danced with, looked into the eyes of and walked through the city streets. He has written the audience a letter, part love-letter part breakup note. Over an hour or so, he will read and reread this letter over and over again. Each time, his performance will be transformed by following the advice of his former audience members. The performance will contain less eyes closed parts, less clothes, and less endings. There will be more beer, more dancing, more confetti. If that sounds like a mashup, that’s because it is. It is also an attempt at the impossible, at achieving perfection, or at least a shared moment of grace together. DRAMATURG’S STATEMENT As long as I have known him, Dustin’s work has had a kind of fearlessness to it. Unafraid to be different, to take risks, to be nakedly sentimental, defiantly hopeful, to exist literally and figuratively at the very edge of Canada’s theatre establishment. Less + More is all those things. It is a show that only Dustin could have made - courageously honest, wildly innovative, sad and silly and beautiful all at the same time. It is an attempt to consider the biggest possible questions about our lives and how we choose to live them in a way so charming and playful it could be the set-up for a party game, rather than the premise for an hour of theatre. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Audience interaction/participation Content warnings: May contain partial nudity (underwear) Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Created by Dustin Harvey (Dartmouth, NS) Dramaturgy by Andy Field (London, UK) Project Mentor: Dr. Tom Payne, Doppelgangster (Sheffield, UK) Residency Support: Iceland Academy for the Arts in Reykjavik Funded by ArtsNS, The City of Halifax, Canada Council For The Arts Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

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Comedy, Storytelling - Incoming 2024

Malunderstood

“A Fringe gem and not to be missed” - Beyond James (Hamilton, On) A grandmother should spoil you from time to time, no? Well, not Kenny Streule's grandmother. Immerse yourself in a collection of memories that explain how Kenny was raised by a wild beaver. Using comedy, puppetry and movement, he examines his relationship with his Swiss German grandmother. Winner of the Best New Artist Award at FESTN4 2024 presented by the Orlando Fringe. "Streule is authentically charming in an amiably awkward way." - Orlando Weekly "The charismatic Streule does not fail in delivering exactly the show that will delight Fringe regulars and casual theatergoers alike" - Orlando Performer "Streule has the peppy personality to win the audience over." - Orlando Sentinel “Malunderstood is a fantastic one-man story, that’s almost like sitting with your best-friend through 45-minutes of therapy.” - Curtainsup.tv, Montreal Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Audience interaction/participation Content warnings: Themes of bullying Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Written & Performed by Kenny Streule Directed by Amy Blackmore Dramaturgy provided by Jesse Stong, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal Lighting Design by Ian W. Klempan Puppet Design by Jessica Alley Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open 30 minutes ahead of showtime. Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

Location Intrepid Studio

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Puppetry, Cabaret - Incoming 2024

The Baby Tyler Show

Created and performed by Ingrid Hansen When you’re small, how do you live in a world designed for big people? Watch Baby Tyler discover his unique super powers to solve problems.

Location Metro Studio

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Comedy, Puppetry - Incoming 2024

Untitled Flamingo Play

Moving, hilarious, incredibly intelligent, cute as hell, and exactly what I needed right now! - Audience Reaction, OutFest 2023 Hilarious, whimsical, and charming, Untitled Flamingo Play is a love letter to queer kids, and their right to be as fabulous as they flocking well please. On the first day of Grade 3, two outcast kiddoes receive an assignment—find a role model for the rest of your life! Can they find queer icons and express their authentic selves in the face of toxic masc bullies, femme-phobic grownups, and the sinister forces of heterocisnormativity? A foul- mouthed toy flamingo might hold the answer. We acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts. Untitled Flamingo Play first premiered at Talk is Free Theatre in 2022. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: None. Content Warnings: Coarse language, adult themes Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Nathaniel Hanula-James — Writer/performer Caitlin Farley — Stage manager Jacob Margaret Archer — Dramaturg Ryan Wilcox — Lighting/sound designer Hannah Fisher — Costume/Props designer Phoebe Hu 胡馨勻 — Movement and Puppetry Dramaturg/Choreographer Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

Location Intrepid Studio

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Comedy, Multidisciplinary , Cabaret, Physical Theatre, Clown - Incoming 2024

tony wrestles a stranger

tony wrestles a stranger is a surreal family reunion that is like a hot dog eating contest meets an MFA thesis project. Through physical challenges like 15 minutes of burpees or eating a pack of hotdogs, tony explores and interrogates their various axis’ of identity in a performance that is visceral and tender. All crafted so that tony and their dad, who hopefully shows up, can finally have some father-kid moments they have missed out on. This is a very deliberate display of daddy issues. Accessibility Sensory Warnings: Sudden loud noises, audience interaction/participation Content Warnings: Adult themes; themes surrounding consent; mentions, themes, or depictions of violence and sexual violence*; discussion of body/fatphobia; brief potentially disturbing images** *Sexual violence is abstractly expressed through a werewolf metaphor **A dog eating its own excrement Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions. Credits Tony Adams: Creator / Performer / Producer Cory Thibert: Director / Creative Contributor / Stage Manager Nicole Malcolm: Dramaturge / Lighting Designer Dave Morris: Directorial Consultant Geoff Malcolm: Fight Director Funders/sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Belfry Theatre Incubator Program Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online. Arrival at the venue: The doors will open  30 minutes ahead of showtime.  Masks are strongly encouraged inside the theatre. Refunds: If you are not feeling well or have any symptoms, please stay home to help keep everyone safe. We are able to discuss refunds on a case by case basis due to health reasons before the performance. Please contact tickets@intrepidtheatre.com. We are unable to arrange refunds after a performance has occurred.

Location Intrepid Studio

subvenue Intrepid Studio