Lauren Prousky - Nutcracker II (II)

Lauren Prousky
Nutcracker II (II)
Willistead Manor
December 2, 2025
7–8:30pm

Nutcracker II is the name of two distinct yet connected performances that serve to animate, expand upon and deepen understanding of . Both performances pull from and subvert the original Nutcracker story, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann, to explore themes of housing precarity and Ontario’s predatory housing policies.

Nutcracker II (II) is a fully improvised tour of Willistead Manor led by performers from the Windsor Improv Theatre. Guests will experience the Manor from the viewpoint of its resident mice*, the unlikely landlords of this historic architectural landmark.

Please note that the mice are extremely preoccupied with the state of their real estate investment and are on the brink of war with a human child and an obsolete culinary tool. It is a considerable privilege that they have agreed to host a tour for us at this time.

Performance will last approximately 45 minutes and will require guests to walk and stand for the majority of that time.

Free. Registration is required.

* This is a work of fiction. There are no known mice, rats, or vermin of any kind presently residing at Willistead Manor or in any City of Windsor properties.

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Lauren Prousky is an artist and writer based on land colonially known as Kitchener, Ontario. Her multidisciplinary work manifests as distinct projects, each with their own research tracts and material concerns. The connective tissue of these projects tends to be an interest in teasing out poetic moments from the slippery spaces of transformation and entanglement, where words and materials converge, collide, and evolve.

Lauren Prousky acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.

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