Stranger Theatre History:
Stranger Theatre was founded by Kate Cayley, Kilby Smith-McGregor, Simone Rosenberg and Lea Ambros in 2001. The company has performed as part of Puppet Uprising (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), The Flying Brick (Richmond, Virginia), MadLab Theatre (Columbus, Ohio), The Langdon Street Café (Montpelier, Vermont), Catcall and Le Pocket Palace (Montreal), The Black Sheep Puppet Festival (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) the On The Waterfront Festival (Halifax), Rhubarb! (Toronto), SummerWorks (Toronto), Groundswell (Toronto), LadyFest Midwest (Chicago, Illinois) and The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival (Toronto), as well as staging independent indoor and outdoor work in both Toronto and Halifax. Stranger Theatre's work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Laidlaw Foundation.
Stranger Theatre Mandate:
Stranger Theatre is an artist-run company that uses myth, folktales and literature as a springboard through which to tell new stories. In our work, we try to give pre-eminence to social and political critique, while also giving delight or surprise through playful ways of telling, incorporating physical theatre, found text and objects, video, clown, various forms of puppetry, mask, song, and original writing. Our focus is the creation of new pieces, adapting old texts into new forms, and producing work which uses public space in unconventional ways.
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