The Staircase proudly presents TAKE TWO. We're pairing together TWO productions with one ticket. Pay for 1, get 2. Get it?
Charlie's Riot - In 1994 New Brunswick, in the aftermath of a traumatic abortion, 17 year old Charlie grapples with a grim secret. Drawing strength and solace from the Riot Grrrl feminist movement— in which young women wrote zines about their lives, offered each other support, formed punk bands, and unapologetically screamed about being a girl under patriarchy— Charlie reckons with her trauma, and makes a decision that finally brings her secret to rest.
New Wave Your Behaviour - In 2022, a series of anxiety attacks required me to take a mental health leave from my work. Unexpectedly, it also prompted an obsessive re-evaluation of the synth-pop music of my youth. Did New Wave provide me the tools I needed to repair myself and grow as person? Maybe it did. Will I demonstrate these tools through story, music, and dancing? You bet your drum machine I will.
This block takes place in the Studio Theatre (27 Dundurn St N).