A bold new season at the Belfry
The Belfry’s season opened last week with Women of the Fur Trade, Frances Koncan’s wildly funny and razor-sharp remix of Indigenous and Canadian history. Everything about this play is surprising. Everything.Written in 1978 by Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, Betrayal is a love triangle involving a woman, her husband and her lover, that unfolds […]
Fifty years of transformational theatre.
The Belfry Theatre celebrates its 50th Anniversary Season this year, featuring seven uniquely new Canadian plays.The season opens with Michael Healey’s political satire, 1979, hisa riotous take on Joe Clark’s short-lived tenure as Prime Minister. It is a riotous take, featuring your favourite (and not- so- favourite) politicians of the era.Burning Mom is the story […]
Get ready for a thrilling new season at the Belfry, where magic, laughter, and poignant storytelling come to life!
Kicking off this week is the English-language premiere of the enchanting Quebecois play, From Alaska. Written by Sébastien Harrisson and translated to English by Leanna Brodie, this play whisks you away to a world where the ordinary meets the magical.Next up is 1939, a strikingly beautiful and humorous Indigenous play that wowed audiences when it […]