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Storytold Strikes By Rick Duthie Sudbury Strike Stories is a site-specific historical play that focusses on the postwar incidences of strikes in Sudbury, Ontario. It is early in its development and is currently told episodically, as a transgenerational memory play, through multiple points of view. Put simply, the story is told through exchanges of memories, chronologically in time, beginning in the Great Depression and ending in 2018. We are enlisted in this journey back in time with the help of a young girl. Laurie vividly remembers the 1958 strike. She eavesdrops, listening in on the heated exchanges occurring at her kitchen table, while she should really be in bed. Her memories invoke the stories of her family and friends as we move forward in time. Often conflicting experiences striking, working and living in Sudbury interrupt and disturb her version of these events. She tries to sort it all out, a tangled mess of memories that change and shift as she grows older. She blinks and finds herself accompanying her husband on that picket line in the late 70s. Her father is long gone, and all the old timers are retired. What remains consistent is this kitchen table, a pivotal location for these exchanges. When later we see these events staged, what does it all mean? What does she hold on to? What can she let go? Saturday May 5th: 5:00 PM (With Artist Talkback) BackSpace, Sudbury Theatre Centre Tickets $15 | PlaySmelter All-In Festival Pass $85

Paradise By Patti Flather Directed by: Majdi Bou-Matar Featuring Pam Patel, Aldrin Bundoc, Nicholas Cumming & Michael Peng Set & Properties Design by David Skelton Sound Design and Composition by Jordy Walker Lighting Design by Jennifer Jimenez Costume Design by Melaina Sheldon Stage Managed by Zac Gungl “Paradise: what you get when you cross a skilled, veteran playwright with a vibrant, movement-based theatre company. Gwaandak Theatre's Patti Flather and the MT Space have come together to produce a show that is as beautiful as it is unsettling, linking stories of peaches, snakes, dogs, limericks, and ordinary people under stress.” – Ric Knowles, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph An unemployed logger, a young man accused of terrorism, a family doctor and his daughter, are all searching for their humanity inside the systems that cage us all. This play explores human rights, mental illness and addictions, and our own personal complicity in such urgent issues that surround us on daily basis. A poetic, complex and challenging work, Paradise is a beautiful marriage of the text and imagery of Patti Flather with the distinct physical style of MT Space. *Paradise premiered at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2015 and was showcased at IMPACT 15 in Kitchener, Ontario. Thursday May 3rd: 8:00 PM (With Artist Talkback) Friday May 4th: 9:00 PM Saturday May 5th: 8:00 PM (With Post-show VIP event for PlaySmelter All-In Festival Pass Holders) Mainstage, Sudbury Theatre Centre Tickets $30 | PlaySmelter All-In Festival Pass $85