Greystone Theatre
We present three to four plays a year on our Greystone Mainstage season, showcasing the work of our student actors and technicians, both onstage and behind the scenes. Whether classical or cutting-edge and contemporary, every season offers a diverse mix of plays chosen to challenge our students and to entrance our audiences: a matter that is as true today as it was in 1946, when Greystone Mainstage Productions premiered on campus at the U of S.
Welcome to Greystone Theatre
Greystone Theatre, one of the oldest theatres in the province, started in 1946 in the first drama department in Canada and the Commonwealth. Check out ticket information and upcoming performances.
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The Women of the Fur Trade
By Frances Koncan
Directed by Deneh'Cho Thompson
November 21 - 24
Opening: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Matinee: Friday, November 22, 12:00 pm
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. This lively historical satire of survival and cultural in- heritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.
Brainstorm
By Ned Glasier, Emily Lim, and Company Three
Directed by Shannon Blanchet
February 12 - 15, 2025, 7:30 pm
Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic, and exhilarating changes that happen to human bodies. BRAINSTORM is a theatrical investigation into how teenagers’ brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are. Originally created by Ned Glasier, Emily Lim and Company three in collaboration with neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr. Kate Mills, this unique production is created and performed by a company of actors drawing directly on their personal experiences.
Mother's Daughter
By Kate Hennig
Directed by Fraser Stevens
March 20 - 22, 24 - 29, 2025
Opening: TBA
Matinee: TBA, 12:00 pm
In this stunning third part to the Queenmaker Series, England’s first queen regnant find herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of Edward VI, the princess Mary – daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon – easily wrests the throne from Edward’s official heir. But Mary’s mother appears from the vaults of memory, and adamantly questions the motives of Mary’s cousin Jane and her half-sister Bess. Should Mary execute her opponents before it’s too late? Should she find a husband who can give her a rightful heir? And can she trust her mother, her sister, or even herself?
Seeds
By Annabel Soutar
Directed by Ken MacKenzie
October 10 - 13, 2024, 7:30 pm
Opening: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Matinee: Saturday, October 12, 2024, 12:00 pm
Seeds presents a tense portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question is the legitimacy of patenting genetically modified food crops. The play takes us back to the seminal moment when a single farmer stood up to international agribusiness and almost won.
Online playbill available here.
