Winner of the 2018 Generations Award and the 2017 Smith Prize for Political Theater.

BABEL
By Jacqueline Goldfinger
Sep 16 - Oct 3, 2021

Babel is a dark sci-fi comedy set in the near future. A couple is having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raises the specter of eugenics, explores the societal value of a baby, and asks us what we are willing to risk for security and love. Inspired in part by the storytelling style of the award-winning television show Black Mirror, this funny, quirky and unsettling story is an exploration of the tension between the power of technology and what it means to be human.

For Scoundrels 12+.

Winner of the Alberta Literary Award for Drama 2003, Alberta Playwriting Competition 2000, Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play 2002.

MARY’S WEDDING
by Stephen Massicotte
Oct 21- Nov 7, 2021

On the night before her wedding, Mary dreams of a thunderstorm in which she unexpectedly meets Charlie, sheltering in a barn beside his horse. With innocence and humor, the two discover a charming first love. But the year is 1914, and the world is collapsing into a brutal war. Mary’s Wedding is an epic, unforgettable story of love, hope, and survival.

"Puts you in mind of the grand passion of Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, the vastness of their love mirroring the wild tangle of nature. " —Washington Times

For Scoundrels 12+

A new world premiere for all ages and backgrounds based on the beloved Charles Dickens classic set amid our borderlands.

A SONORAN DESERT CAROL
By Charles Dickens / Adapted by Claire Marie Mannle
Dec 9 - Dec 19, 2021

To round out our year we bring you a much loved story of the holiday season set among desert landscapes nestled between our iconic mountain ranges. Join us for an evening of holiday gathering, ghosts, and Mexican hot cocoa with A Sonoran Desert Carol. This is a highly inventive, physical theater adaptation of the Dickens classic, specially devised to thrill and warm the hearts of us desert denizens.

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” - Charles Dickens

For Scoundrels and Scamps ages 8+.

The only play at the S&S (re)scheduled for three consecutive seasons we bring you Ada and the Engine, borne with stubborness, tenacity and love. We think Ada Lovelace would be proud.

ADA AND THE ENGINE
By Lauren Gunderson
Feb 10 - Feb 27, 2022

In Lauren Gunderson’s exploration of music, math and genius, Ada Byron Lovelace bucks the conventions of her Victorian time. Although her dear friend Charles Babbage conceives of the first “analytical engine” or proto-computer, Ada has a vision for his innovative machine that will change our world forever. 

“(Ada and the Engine) is a rare and special artistic achievement: an intelligent play about intelligent historical people that has been crafted by intelligent theatre artists for an intelligent audience." -Huffington Post 

For Scoundrels 12+

From the mind of Australia’s most accomplished children’s playwright (and you may recognize Kruckemeyer as the author of “This Girl Laughs” from our season two) comes a tale of wonder and invention that is brought to life in unexpected ways. This production will be the first presentation of the play that has been produced on the US Mainland.

YOU AND ME AND THE SPACE BETWEEN
By Finegan Kruckemeyer
Mar 31 - Apr 17, 2022

The island of Proud Circle has sprung a leak and its citizens must find a way to stop their home from disappearing. It will take the imaginative mind of a child to save the island, its people and their ways. Storytelling, choreographed projections and live drawn animation explore the plight of refugees fleeing environmental change as told through the eyes of a child.

“Kruckemeyer has created a universal, poignant allegory of the refugee plight which resonates with all ages.” -Australian Stage

.For Scoundrels and Scamps ages 5 - 105.

To round out the season we present the stage adaptation of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning book of poetry/prose by Claudia Rankine about race in America. Winner of the 2015 National Book Award, the 2015 Los Angeles Book Award, and the PEN Award.

CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC
By Claudia Rankine / Adapted by Stephen Sachs
May 12 - May 29, 2022

This powerful and fast-moving stage adaptation fuses theatre, music, movement, and video imagery. These are snapshots, vignettes, a meditation on the acts of everyday racism. This play speaks to those remarks, glances, seeming slips of the tongue — those “did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just say-that slurs” that happen every day — all this, and the larger incidents that become national firestorms. 

As Rankine writes, “This is how you are a citizen.” 

For Scoundrels 15+.