THEATRE PROJECTS MANITOBA is thrilled to announce our 2025/2026 Season!
Our upcoming season serves up three new plays with seven playwrights that all have a point of view on how we define ourselves through our communities, how we confront the systems that shape our lives, and what it means to belong (or not).
AT A GLANCE:
We’re featuring SEVEN playwrights this year:
- Five playwright-performers (Debbie Patterson, Hazel Venzon, Eric Plamondon, Jivesh Parasram & Tom Arthur Davis) will each bring you their own take on identity, displacement and belonging in The Only Good Indian
- Then Andraea Sartison takes on community legacy, and the end of history in One Trunk Theatre’s exciting community collaboration The Martian and the Mound
- And finally Trish Cooper brings her singular voice and prodigious comedic chops to Holland—a visionary revenge fantasy for anyone feeling strangled by the systems that are supposed to offer support.
Theatre Parties Manitoba are back! This year we are delighted to partner with Art Holm, We Quit Theatre, and Sick&Twisted Theatre—stay tuned for more details on these interactive celebrations of live art in all its forms!
TPM Season Passes are back: you’ll get access to TPM’s presentations and arts parties—that’s OGI, The Martian and the Mound and TWO Theatre Parties!
THE MAINSTAGES:
O.G.I. (The Only Good Indian)
SEPTEMBER 18-27, 2025 – The Colin Jackson Studio Theatre
Project Design by Jivesh Parasram & Tom Arthur Davis
Written and Performed by Debbie Patterson, Hazel Venzon, Eric Plamondon, Jivesh Parasram & Tom Arthur Davis
The Only Good Indian is part lecture, 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
NOVEMBER 14 – 17, 2025 – Gas Station Arts Centre
Written by Andraea Sartison
In Partnership with One Trunk Theatre as part of the Live Art Trade Route.
The Martian and The Mound is a time-bending, prairie-rooted theatrical romp co-created by dozens of Southern Manitoba citizens and artists from One Trunk Theatre as part of Theatre Projects Manitoba’s Live Art Trade Route. Debuting this fall in Neubergthal, Morden, and Winnipeg’s Gas Station Arts Centre, the play is performed by Morden’s Candlewick Players accompanied by a multimedia artistic team devised of both Winnipeg and rural artists.
The Martian and the Mound 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?
[This is a placeholder image for TPM’s Production of Holland in partnership with Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.]
Holland
FEBRUARY 4 – 21, 2026 – Tom Hendry Warehouse
In Partnership with The Royal MTC
Written by Trish Cooper
Directed by Suzie Martin
“Wow, I think I signed less paperwork when we bought a house.” – Carrie
This world premiere is a hilarious madcap adventure, an unflinching look at disability rights and a love letter to everyday heroes who will do anything for their people.
Carrie and Paul are good people with solid friends and great kids. Another constant in their life is Alice, an antagonistic social worker who holds all the cards when it comes to their disabled son. Alice makes promises but keeps few, drowning the couple in paperwork, denying basic services and bewildering them with impossible deadlines. Pushed to the brink, Carrie takes matters into her own hands – in the most outrageous way possible – and goes from doing everything for her family to risking it all.
Tickets for Holland will go on sale later this year and will be sold as single tickets directly though the MTC Box Office.
WHAT ELSE?
Theatre Parties Manitoba are back! This year we are delighted to partner with Art Holm, We Quit Theatre, and Sick&Twisted Theatre—stay tuned for more details on these interactive celebrations of live art in all its forms!
25/26 Season Passes are on sale NOW!
We’d love to invite you to purchase a Season Pass for our 25/26 Season. A Season Pass is a great way to ensure you get access to our mainstages and Art Parties, and you can save up to 30% on our Season!
This Season Pass includes admission to The Only Good Indian, The Martian and The Mound, and $5 tickets to our Theatre Parties!
Pricing:
Adults: $50
Seniors: $40
Students: $30
*Holland tickets will be available solely through The Royal MTC’s box office, and are not included in the Season Pass.
Season Passes will be available for purchase until September 18.