2025 was a busy year for Theatre Projects! Take a look back at the events and shows from this year!
The Myths That Shape Us
February 24, 2025.
We started 2025 with our art party The Myths that Shape Us. In collaboration with Natanielle Felicitas and Jackie Traverse, we hosted a serene evening of live music and live art painting. Coming together to influence and flow in creation, this night was truly captivating as guests collectively created a painting in tandem with each other and the artists!
Prophecy by Jessy Ardern.
March 19-30.
Director – Suzie Martin. Sound Design – Natanielle Felicitas. Set Design – Kate George. Costume Design – Joseph Abetria. Lighting Design – Anika Binding. Assistant Director – Daphne Finlayson. Apprentice Director – Jodi Kristjanson. Stage Manager – Margaret Brook (March 1-30). Stage Manager – Michael Duggan (Feb-March 1).
The first show of 2025 was Prophecy! Written and performed by Jessy Ardern, Prophecy explores the women of Troy who often get left behind in the stories.
Cassandra has been blessed with the ability to see the future, but her curse is that no one will ever believe her.
In a story that slides between the mythic past and the looming future, she witnesses the events of a war that will overcome her homeland and destroy her family. Channeling the singular voices of the Trojan women—her mother and sisters—Cassandra takes us from the past and into the present as old visions of love, rage, and revenge collide with new ideals of safety, righteousness, and comfort, sending ripples across time and space.
Bodies Politic
August 19.
Featuring: Natanielle Felicitas, Permanent Resident, Mutable Body, Melody McKiver, and Brady Allard.
We partnered with We Quit Theatre and Cluster Festival to bring Bodies Politic, our second art party of the year. Featuring an interactive digital performance by We Quit Theatre titled The Offices That Are Yet to Come and an original musical performance curated by Cluster Festival director Ashley Au, this art party was vibey, social, interactive, and fun! Inspired by the intersection of personal and political themes that power both WQT’s GLORY! and TPM’s The Only Good Indian.
The Only Good Indian by Pandemic Theatre.
September 18-28.
Featuring: Tom Arthur Davis, Jivesh Parasram, Eric Plamondon, Hazel Venzon, and Debbie Patterson. Stage Manager – Jodi Kristjanson.
To kick off our 25/26 season we presented The Only Good Indian. This show was experiemental, existential, and seat-gripping. The project was designed and created by Jivesh Parasram and Tom Arthur Davis of Pandemic Theatre.
The Only Good Indian is part Ted-Talk, part meditation, and part threat. Or maybe a sacrifice.
Each incarnation of The Only Good Indian recruits a new artist to step into the radical headspace of a suicide bomber. In turn, each performer straps themselves into a suicide vest — and struggles to rationalize to the audience such an “irrational” decision. It dissects where our similarities begin and where they end, forcing both the performer and the audience to ask themselves: What would I die for?
The Martian and the Mound in partnership with One Trunk Theatre and Candlewick Productions.
Neubergthal: October 17-19. Morden: November 1-2. Winnipeg: November 14-16.
Co-Creator/Playwright – Andraea Sartison. Co-Creator/Director – Gwen Collins. Co-Creator/Production Manager/Choreographer – Tanner Manson. Co-Creator/Composer/Sound Design – Andrew Braun. Co-Creator/Composer Sound Design – Paul Bergman. Set Design/Prop Design/Video Design – Margruite Krahn. Lighting Design/Projection Design – Lovissa Wiens. Costume Design – Clay Mykietowich. Filmmaker – Lise Raven. Stage Manager – Tava Neufeld.
The final show of this calendar year was in collaboration with Candlewick Productions and One Trunk Theatre as part of the Live Art Trade Route. The Martian and the Mound toured across 3 locations in Manitoba – Neubergthal, Morden, and Winnipeg. Fun, adventurous, and a romp; this show had people laughing, teary-eyed, and falling in love with our province all over again!
The Martian and The Mound is a time-bending, prairie-rooted theatrical romp that follows Dr. Phoenix Albright, an archaeologist from Mars, as they investigate a mysterious “pull” beneath a Manitoba mound.
Guided by ghosts, memories, and extinct animals, Albright travels through pivotal moments in the region’s past—from the tallgrass prairie to the future’s last sunset. This play blends myth, memory, and local voices, asking: in the eyes of history, what makes a moment worth remembering?