Factory season has 3 world premieres

Factory Theatre’s 2017-18 season includes three world premieres, collaborations with local and Canadian theatres and a focus on innovative ways of telling stories onstage.

The season opens with Nightswimming’s production of The Fish Eyes Trilogy, three solo plays by Anita Majumdar, each portraying a different teenage girl at the same B.C. high school. Majumdar won two 2017 Dora Awards for Boys With Cars, onethird of the Fish Eyes Trilogy, which she adapted earlier this year for teen audiences at Young People’s Theatre.

Dora-award-winning playwright Kat Sandler makes her Factory debut with BANG BANG, described as a satirical dramedy about a white writer trying to adapt his play about the shooting of an unarmed Black youth into a film.

The Storefront Theatre, in association with Factory and Vancouver’s Blood Pact Theatre, is producing the premiere of After Wrestling by Bryce Hodgson and Charlie Kerr, which seems set to extend the violence-laden slacker-hipster vibe of their previous Storefront offering, Kill Your Parents in Viking, Alberta.

The third world premiere is trace by actor-turned-writer/composer Jeff Ho, who played Ophelia in Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet earlier this year. Trace is a one-man, two-piano play about family and genealogy.

The season closes with the Toronto premiere of Prairie Nurse, Marie Beath Badian’s comedy about two Filipina nurses arriving in 1967 Saskatchewan. Karen Fricker

> CORRECTION

Alexander Muir, who moved to Scarborough from Scotland as a child in the 1830s, wrote “The Maple Leaf Forever” in 1867. The photo captions included with a July 2 article about Toronto’s musical past mistakenly referred to him as Andrew Muir. As well, the article stated an outdated amount of the arts prize given by the Glenn Gould Foundation. It is now $100,000, not $50,000.