We make great art. Performances that take chances and bring new ideas to life. Plays that reflect today’s stories, faces, and voices. We make it engaging and tour it all over the world. We care about our audience, we want them to connect, question; come as they are and leave with more. For more than 10 years, we’ve developed, co-produced, and toured plays that are loved and critically acclaimed. We make art because it is our platform for change.
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It’s so rare in Canadian theatre to have an opportunity to develop work of such scale over many years. In a time when the politics of our world are in a state of great division, it has been a real privilege to go back to this text and wrestle with this ancient wisdom. This is a four-thousand-year-old message that my ancestors have passed on to me and my generation. It speaks of greed, ambition, and the end of the world. It is at the same time so ancient, and so contemporary. I really look forward to bringing our Mahabharata to audiences at the Shaw Festival.
–Miriam Fernandes, Co-Artistic Director and Co-adaptor of Mahabharata
Being part of Like Mother, Like Daughter with my mom was a beautiful and grounding experience that I will cherish always. I connected more closely with my own mother, and gained a connection with the wonderful women in the room; we lifted each other up, celebrated our accomplishments, and wiped away some tears. It was an unbelievably healing, loving, and supportive environment, and I am so grateful that we were able to be a part of it.
–Fiona Suliman, Participant in Like Mother, Like Daughter
mahabharata
Mahabharata is a Sanskrit epic, that tells the story of a divided family whose conflict results in a catastrophic war that ends the world. It is over 4,000 years old with more than 100,000 verses that shape many of the myths and philosophies of Indian culture. To this day, the stories are told in the kitchens and temples of more than one billion people of India, as well as its diaspora around the world.
prince hamlet
Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast – challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences. You’ve never experienced Hamlet like this before.
prince hamlet
Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast, breathing new life into the 400-year-old play by challenging traditional ideas of who gets to tell this story.
a brimful of asha
Real-life mother and son, Asha and Ravi Jain, share the stage and tell this true (and very Canadian) story of generational and cultural clash. When Ravi takes a trip to India, his parents decide it is the perfect time to introduce him to potential brides. Ravi is not sold on the idea of getting married–at least not yet–but Asha fears that time is running out.
a brimful of asha
Real-life mother and son, Asha and Ravi Jain, share the stage and tell this true (and very Canadian) story of generational and cultural clash. When Ravi takes a trip to India his parents decide it is the perfect time to introduce him to potential brides. Ravi is not sold on the idea of getting married-at least not yet-but Asha fears that time is running out.
code
Reuniting the award-winning collaboration of Why Not’s Artistic Director Ravi Jain and Governor General’s Award-winning writer Nicolas Billon (Greenland, Iceland, and Faroe Islands), CODE is a gripping new play that frames computer code as the universal language and currency of power.
After an artificial superintelligence is accidentally released into the ‘wild’ of the internet, a chase ensues to recapture it. But how will it treat its creators? With malevolence, benevolence, or indifference? Finding inspiration in the biblical tale of The Tower of Babel, CODE investigates the moral conundrums raised by the creation of a new intelligence.
code
Reuniting the award winning collaboration of Why Not’s Artistic Director Ravi Jain, with Governor General’s Award winning writer Nicolas Billon (Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands), CODE is a gripping new play that frames computer code as the universal language and currency of power.
After an artificial superintelligence is accidentally released into the ‘wild’ of the internet, a chase ensues to recapture it. But how will it treat its creators? With malevolence, benevolence, or indifference? Finding inspiration in the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel, CODE investigates the moral conundrums raised by the creation of a new intelligence.
