The Development Series

The Development Series will launch new Canadian work throughout the season with three workshop productions.

Ticket are $10 dollars per show or series pass is $25. To book your tickets please e-mail us at office@obsidian-theatre.com or call 416-463-8444.

Shakespeare’s Nigga by Joseph Jomo Pierre

Sat Dec 10 2011 Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace
16 RYERSON AVE Tickets: 416-463-8444

Shakespeare’s Nigga is an exploration into the iconic black characters in the Bard’s work, subversive and poetic the play takes you on a journey beyond reality and into the mind of the Bard himself.

4our Women by Motion

Sat March 31 2012 (Tapestry/Nightwood New Work Studio)
55 Mill Street, Building 58, The Cannery, Studio 315 Tickets: 416-463-8444

4our Women is a story of memory, migrations, identity and inheritance, the entangled portraits of a dead washer, a domestic, an inmate and a crown ward. The play is the story of women who walk the precarious line between death, rebirth, and the living in between.

The Hallway by Leah-Simone Bowen

Sat April 7 2012 (Tapestry/Nightwood New Work Studio)
55 Mill Street, Building 58, The Cannery, Studio 315 Tickets: 416-463-8444

Set in 1936 during one of the worst heat waves in history, the tenants of a Negro rooming house struggle to cope with daily life while a Russian immigrant tries to escape his past.