The Disruptors - Shakespeare Club + Gala Night

Four plays! Four nights!

The Disruptors is a chance to see new work written and performed by artists you may never have seen before – and some whose work you already know and love. It’s theatre at its best – affordable, approachable and provocative.

The Disruptors play readings will take place at the end of September at Campbell House Museum. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, with $10/$20/$30 options.

This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.

by Dave Carley

An ice storm has locked in Peterborough. The streets are impassible. Hydro lines are being brought down by ice-heavy branches. Nevertheless, a determined trio of women is gathering in one of their homes to study Shakespeare’s The Tempest. But everyone has an agenda – and soon the storm raging outside the meeting is matched by conflict inside…

Based on the true story of a century-old group, Dave Carley’s Shakespeare Club is a tale of a power structure splitting, and minds cracking open.

This showing of Shakespeare Club will be followed by a special Gala Night after party celebrating the Disruptors run at Campbell House Museum!

by Beverley Cooper

It’s 1969. A year where everything is so political: music, fashion, the Vietnam war, Trudeaumania, the FLQ. Housewife Janet Wilson is desperately trying to uphold the social status quo and keep her dysfunctional family together. But when a draft-dodging nephew shows up at her door, Janet’s once-stable world turns upside down.

A pre-pandemic hit at Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company, Janet Wilson Meets the Queen is a black comedy about political apathy.

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by Marcia Johnson

Women’s strength is at the very heart of Kate and Bianca.

Marcia Johnson has taken the historical hoax of Toronto’s James Mink, a 19th century Black millionaire, and mashed it up with The Taming of the Shrew. In this radical retelling, Baptista offers a dowry for his daughter Kate, hoping to give her a better chance in life if she marries a white man. Sure enough, one appears – a shifty horse trader who spirits his bride south across the border – and into slavery.

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Co-created by Vince Deiulis and Genna Giampaolo.

Co-created by Vince Deiulis and Genna Giampaolo.

January 1968: 64-year old mining magnate and entrepreneur, Viola MacMillan is found guilty and sentenced to Pr*son. Her crime? Being a successful woman in a male-dominated industry.

In Windfall, Viola transports the audience to the height of her success and relives an important interview with a young Maclean’s journalist, Christina McCall – all the while grappling with her new reality during the first hours at Toronto’s Don J*il.

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Host or Publisher Campbell House Museum and Fashion History Productions