Lawrence Aronovitch

A play about a poem about a painting about a myth - and what it means to be human. The poet W.H. Auden gives a lecture in 1954 but is distracted by some very distressing news. This 30-minute one-man show interweaves the lives and works of Auden and the mathematician Alan Turing.

Daniel recalls his days as a high school student in Montreal in the 1970s when he used the reasoning skills his teachers taught him to argue that they should stop pushing him to date girls. A story about not coming out until you’re ready.

A memory play about an aging tailor mourning the loss of the two most important people in his life: his lover Jimmy, a Broadway chorus boy, and his most famous client, The Duke of Windsor. Both of them visit his shop as ghostly reminders of the happiest moments of his life.

In 1807, Ezekiel Hart was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. Although he was the first Jew elected to public office in the British Empire, Hart was unable to take his seat because he refused to take his oath using a Christian Bible. The issues raised by the play resonate with us today: reasonable accommodation, the role of religion in a secular society, social acceptance of the “Other,” and more generally what it means to be a “New Canadian” whose cultural norms are not accepted by the majority population.

Two friends meet for lunch. One of them is a few minutes late, which sets off a series of verbal clashes fueled by a past relationship that they can't bring themselves to discuss explicitly.

Imagine a world in which homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. A gay fugitive, Sebastian, has been rescued by a mysterious older man who calls himself Mother Courage. And a female security commander requests a meeting with the nun who was once her lover. Both are looking for an escape on the legendary Lavender Railroad, which offers hope and redemption in the face of impossible moral choices - but is it a deadly trap instead?

It's 1969 and a young man, Dwight, is watching the moon landing on TV. There’s a knock at his door – it’s his ex, Thomas, with news about a riot at the Stonewall Inn and a proposition.