• 2020-2021,  blog

    #Paprika20

    Looking back with Mae Smith This was a big year for our friends at the Paprika Festival, our company-in-residence. Not only was #Paprika20 their largest program to date, they also announced new executive leadership team, Julia Dickson (General Manager) and Keshia Palm (Artistic Producer). The two-week festival welcomed over 500 audience members digitally, forging a path for the future of performance by embracing…

  • 2020-2021

    From the artists: May I Take Your Arm?

    Blind artist Alex Bulmer takes the arm of people in her new neighbourhood. Together, they walk, listen, and share life stories — an architecture of place emerges. Experience their journeys through these multi-sensory moving-portraits that consider the past, illuminate the present, and evoke possible futures. Originally created in 2018 as a live, interactive, performance installation, May I Take Your Arm? has…

  • 2020-2021

    Media: Theatre Passe Muraille Presents Two Unconventional Works

    May I Take Your Arm? by Alex Bulmer, Anna Camilleri, Tristan R. Whiston, Becky Gold and Katie Yealland | A Theatre Passe Muraille and Red Dress Productions Co-Production In Association with Common Boots Theatre | June 14 – June 26, 2021 | Online and by mail Ephemeral Artifacts by Travis Knights and Brandy Leary | An Ä€NANDAá¹€ Dancetheatre Production in Association with Theatre Passe Muraille…

  • 2020-2021,  blog

    What do we mean by “digital relaxed performances”?

    A chat with Jack Hawk Relaxed Performances are designed to welcome audience members and their families who could benefit from a more relaxed environment, including Autistic and neurodivergent patrons.  The set-up includes: a pre-show introduction to the actors/characters, less intense sound and lighting effects, a very low level house light in the audience, the ability for anyone to come and go…

  • 2020-2021

    March 14

    We want to take a moment today to recognize March 14, which marks 1 year since our theatre and office closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  #NavigatingTheNow is the theme of TPM’s 20.21 season, which represents the organization’s vision to be flexible, adaptive and responsive to the rapid changes of the world. This has provided our partnering productions and artists the…

  • 2020-2021,  blog

    Meet Merlin

    Theatre Passe Muraille’s Intern Dramaturge Merlin Simard is among award winners in the 2020 Buddies Queer Emerging Art Awards and is a recipient of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the America’s ECD Residency grant. Meet Merlin! Merlin Simard (iel/elle/they/she) joined the TPM team in August 2020 as our Intern Dramaturge. Recently, Merlin was awarded Buddies in Bad Times’ Buddies Queer…

  • 2020-2021,  blog

    Being Black is a Journey

    South Africans have a particular way of existing in the world like no other that surpasses apartheid and white supremacy.  Being Black is a journey. Being South African and men of trans experience in Canada, is a unique experience. This is why 11:11 is special, it tells a unique story of resilience. This show is proof that Black queer stories…