Queer Acts Festival

Performed and Written by Hugo Dann, with Rosemary Gilbert (90 Min, Bus Stop Theatre) The Queer Ages of Hugo Dann explores the life of its author/performer from 1966 to the present day. The queer theatre artist and activist traces the connection between his life in the theatre and his coming of age as a gay […]

Written and performed by Adam Myatt and Nolan Natasha (30 Min, Bus Stop Theatre) Breakfast is a comedy about waiting, often for the wrong reasons. Two friends sit in a quiet diner on a weekday afternoon, ordering off the breakfast menu. While waiting for their order to arrive, they discuss, among other things, annoying social […]

Written and performed by Izad Etemadi, Direction and Dramaturgy by Liza Balkan, Film Direction by Moze Mossanen and Stage Management by Steph Raposo. (60 Min, Bus Stop Theatre) Persian. Noun. 1. A person who is known to have anal sex. This term is most often used towards men to imply homosexuality.�2. Commonly used as an […]

Emerging Queer Artists Double-Bill (60 Min, Bus Stop Theatre) Queer Acts has partnered with Raven Davis as mentor and Jade Byard Peek is our local emerging queer artist! Jade is a Black and Mi'kmaw Artist working with Raven in a new piece entitled "fried". Fried is a performance piece that confronts the colonial expectation of […]

Written and performed by Aisha Zaman (60min, Bus Stop Theatre) “They experienced suffering and adversity and were so shaken in spirit that even the Prophet and the faithful who were with him cried, ‘When will God’s help come?’” (Al-Baqarah-214). When 15-year-old Yasmin realizes that her “never-tell-anyone-especially-not-your-parents” secret is out, she begins a winner-take-all fight against […]