Student Productions
Lion in the Streets
Judith Thompson wrote Lion in the Streets as a delayed, and largely unconscious response to the murder, in 1983, of nine year Sharon Morningstar Keenan in the neighborhood in Toronto where she lives with her family. The play initially explored moments of crisis in the lives of a diverse and changing community. Soon enough "Isobel," who is the ghost of a girl murdered seventeen years before the action of the play, asserted herself and entered the play. Lion in the Streets charts Isobel’s returning to earth to hunt down her killer and take revenge.
“Lion in the Streets is so harsh that it makes you feel like you've been stripped, beaten, and abandoned, and so compassionate that it releases floods of grief and gratitude with its touch.”
- Colin Thomas, The Georgia Strait
The War of the Worlds
November 7th, 2019 – November 16th, 2019
The School of English and Theatre presents The War of the Worlds, adapted from the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. Each audience member will take a different path through the production, which includes a retelling of Wells' tale of extraterrestrial invasion and a number of immersive installations based on themes in the text that resonate in our current socio-political climate.
