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2025/2026 SEASON
All artwork by Jonathan Wood
Join us for a season of playful, thought-provoking theatre that explores identity, storytelling, and the art of adaptation. Featuring the wacky and wildly imaginative Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a contemporary take on Ibsen’s poetic epic Peer Gynt, and a guest presentation of Women of the Fur Trade produced in association with Touchstone Theatre, this year’s lineup is full of humour, heart, and big questions.
What’s On Stage:
Women of the Fur Trade
Photo by Fred Cattroll
by Frances Koncan
Directed by Renae Morrisseau
September 24–October 4, 2025
Frederic Wood Theatre
An NAC Indigenous, GCTC, NEPA production, presented by Touchstone Theatre in association with Western Canada Theatre and UBC Theatre and Film
In eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. This lively historical satire of survival and cultural inheritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.
Following a sold-out premiere in January 2024 at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, this production is revived with its first Western Canada stop.
Single tickets to Women of the Fur Trade can be purchased through Touchstone Theatre. This production is included in a UBC Theatre 2025/2026 subscription package.
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
by Anne Washburn
Score by Michael Friedman
Lyrics by Anne Washburn
Directed by Larisse Campbell (MFA Candidate)
November 19–December 6, 2025
Frederic Wood Theatre
In the near future, after the collapse of society as we know it, survivors gather around a campfire, trying to recall the Simpsons episode “Cape Feare”, seeking solace and entertainment. As time passes, that half-remembered episode, plus other fragments of pop culture, becomes the unlikely foundation for new forms of performance and a means of preserving the memory of a world long gone. Blending dark comedy, music, and theatrical experimentation, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is a uniquely imaginative exploration of pop culture, storytelling, and what endures.
Peer Gynt
by David Henry Hwang and Stephan Muller
Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Christopher Lam (MFA Candidate)
March 11–28, 2026
Frederic Wood Theatre
Meet Peer Gynt: dreamer, freeloader, and eternal runaway on a lifelong quest for fame, purpose, and desire. This bold, contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s classic plunges audiences into an epic journey across the mountains of Norway and the deserts of North Africa. Along the way, Peer encounters trolls, flying reindeer, and shipwrecks. Steeped in folkloric fantasy, self-reflection, and sharp metaphors, Peer Gynt explores the nature of identity, love, and the contradictions of being human.
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