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Girl Power in 2017/18 at the GCTC

The GCTC unveiled its 2017-18 theatre season and it promises to be fantastic with a wide variety of theatrical offerings.

Hometown favourites, an adult-only dating adventure, millennial comedies, and a full-blown musical are just a sample of what’s being offered.

Here is the short version of the season:

It is refreshing to see an emphasis on female playwrights. “Five out of the six playwrights in our 2017/18 season are women,” says Artistic Director Eric Coates. “This is partly due to our commitment to gender equity, but more so because these are the plays that arrested me. These plays stopped me in my tracks. There is a powerful movement to reflect the millennial experience in today’s playwriting and I am very excited by it.”

In addition to the mainstage shows, the 2017-18 season is introducing a Theatre for Young Audiences series with two Canadian works. This is particularly exciting news.

Two shows aimed squarely at young audiences will also be appearing in the winter and spring of the 2017-18 season. One Thing Leads to Another by Maja Ardal, Audrey Dwyer, Mary Francis Moore, and Julia Tribe, is an award-winning show for babies that will run from March 7-11, 2018 in the Studio Theatre. Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre brings this play that transforms everyday objects into fabulous, fanciful phenomena.

Still/Falling by Rachel Aberle from Greenthumb Theatre will run April 3-4, 2018 in the mainstage and will only be open to school groups. Still/Falling is a realistic, honest and bitingly funny look at the difference between ‘teen angst’ and mental illness, and the ways vulnerable kids can start to find their way out of the dark.

If you are foodie, then you will be happy to learn that the GCTC also is planning a second season of Chefs & Shows. Under the continued curatorship of Sheila Whyte from Thyme & Again and Chef Michael Moffatt, 2017-18 will bring six new chefs from Ottawa’s top restaurants to showcase their culinary expertise at GCTC for one night only. Tim Stock from Play Wine Bar and Christopher Deraiche from Wellington Gastropub, among others, will be tasked to create unique menus inspired by a show in the 2017-18 season.

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