Pipeline
By Dominique Morisseau
Starring
Akos Amo-Adem Tony Ofori, Chelsea Russell, Kristen Thoman, Kevin Hanchard & Mazin Elsadig
Dir: Weyni Mengesha
A mother's hopes for her son clash with an educational system rigged against him in PIPELINE, the riveting new play by Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew). Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they'll never have.
Serving Elizabeth
By Marcia Johnson
Starring
ALLISON EDWARDS, MARCIA JOHNSON Mercy, AMANDA LISMAN, TONY OFORI, GEOFFREY POUNSETT
Dir: LEAH-SIMONE BOWEN
Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. As a staunch anti-monarchist, how can she take the job? Decades later, Tia, a Kenyan-Canadian film student interning in the London office of a production company doing a series about Queen Elizabeth, discovers that there may be more to the story of the royal visit than we have been led to believe. Although she’s been a fan of princesses all her life, Tia learns that fairy tales and real life are very different things.
Serving Elizabeth is a funny, fresh, and topical play about colonialism, monarchy, and who is serving whom — or what.
Copy That
By Jason Sherman
Starring
Emma Ferreira, Janet-Laine Green, Jeff Lillico, Tony Ofori & Richard Waugh
Dir: Jamie Robinson
Copy That takes us behind the scenes of network television. Four writers struggle to get their new cop show approved for production. When the team’s only Black writer is roughed up by an actual cop, the fallout threatens to not only kill the show, but expose the systemic racism at the heart of popular entertainment itself.
By Anna Ziegler
Starring
Tony Ofori and Claire Renaud
Dir: Philip Akin
Obsidian Theatre in collaboration with Herold Green Theatre at the Merdian Centre for the Performing Arts is bringing you Actually. A tale about consent on a college campus. Amber and Tom, finding their way as freshmen at Princeton, spend a night together that alters the course of their lives. They agree on the drinking, they agree on the attraction, but consent is foggy, and if unspoken, can it be called consent? Anna Ziegler investigates gender and race politics, our crippling desire to fit in, and the three sides to every story.
Miss Julie
By August Strindberg
Adapted by Rochelle Reynolds
Starring
Kayla Whelan and Tony Ofori
Dir: Rochelle Reynolds
Lose yourself in the haunting world of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. Follow our fierce heroine's tumultuous romance with her servant as she rebels against her class, all told with the sultry southern flair of New Orleans in the 1940s.
A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Rochelle Reynolds
Starring
Kayla Whelan and Tony Ofori
Dir: Rochelle Reynolds
Transport yourself to the wholesome 1950s heartland as we bring you a fresh, unexpected adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's prolific classic; A Doll's House. Nora has a secret, and when it gets out her choice is simple: sacrifice her independence forever and keep her happy family, or find her own identity and leave everything behind.
Bunny
By Hannah Moscovitch
Starring
Gabriella Albino, Maev Beaty, Rachel Cairns, Matthew Edison, Cyrus Lane, Jesse LaVercombe & Tony Ofori
Dir: Sarah-Garton-Stanley
Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with the social acceptable only to find herself increasingly alone in her desires. Dangerous and disorienting, Bunny is a play about repressive social convention, personal inhibition and desire unleashed.
Let's Go
By Robert Fothergill
Starring
Tony Ofori, Brian Haight and Heather Marie Annis
Dir: Mark Cassidy
Set 40 years before the events of Beckett's seminal play and inspired by this significant work, LET'S GO! follows the journey of Gogo and Didi: two young, aspiring, and struggling Vaudeville performers in 1913. They receive a call to action from an unknown source, leading them to question the world as young people figuring out their path, and changing the course of their lives forever.
Bonds Beyond
By Colleen Osborn
Starring
Timothy Lincoln, Nicole D’Amato, Tony Ofori, Lo Bil, Liz Der, Konstantina Mantelo,
Candi Zell, Susannah Mackay and Margarita Valderrama
Dir: Dorcus Chiu
Bonds Beyond. This dystopian play is set at Pinnacle Corporation, where the dead don't die and the bereaved don't grieve –instead, they aspire to invest in a beta version of a digital afterlife called Summit™. “Your consciousness is a precious commodity.” Tom is the son of the first person to beat death through Summit™; he wants to break free from living in his mother's shadow. But what options does he have other than spiritual entitlement?
The Model Apartment
Donald Margulies
Starring
Clare Coulter, Lisa Norton, Tony Ofori and Eric Peterson
Dir: Tanja Jaconds
When Max and Lola, two Holocaust survivors from Brooklyn, uproot their lives to Florida, they find their new condo unfinished and are forced to spend the night in a “model apartment” where things are not always as they seem. In this brilliant and bizarre Drama Desk-nominated black comedy, Max and Lola soon realize that if they ever want to truly escape they must first confront the demons of their past.
Lost
By Modupe Olaogun
Starring
Andrea Brown, Brandyn Mckinson and Tony Ofori
Dir: Jude Idada
After living for years as refugees in camps near Lake Tanga, ten-year olds Kaza and Kurima accidentally get separated from their family while returning to their home village. Trapped in the forest, the twins fight the encroaching darkness by telling stories they believe will lead them home. They remember the story of a lost hunter who was said to have followed a falcon westwards, finally reaching home. They also remember the story of a girl who outsmarts a leopard by acting dead. The twins are horror-stricken when they see Sokwe, the mountain ape, sauntering towards them. Will Sokwe lead them home? And where is home now?
Tick
By Matthew Mackenzie
Starring
Jessica Moss, Jenna Harris, Nathan Barrett, and Tony Ofori
When her local Toronto library is slated to be closed, ten year old TickailiaʻTickʼ Summers leads her friends in a revolution!