THEATRE / HEARTWARMING / CHINESE DIASPORA

Benevolence

Created and Performed by Kevin Matthew Wong

A Factory Theatre production in association with Tarragon Theatre and Why Not Theatre

From theatre creator, performer and video artist Kevin Matthew Wong comes a charming and intimate storytelling experience that blossoms into a multi-layered Chinese-Canadian tale spanning continents, migrations, and generations. Vulnerable and epic, moving and playful, Benevolence is a powerful exploration of community, hybrid identities, and legacy. Tracing the roots of the Hakka (客家), Kevin Matthew Wong embarks on a journey to untangle these threads within himself. Touring History: Tarragon Theatre (2025), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Belfry, Western Canada Theatre (2026), Firehall Arts Centre (2027) 

Touring Party of 3.

Photo by Jae Yang.

Eyes Wide Open

Created by Naishi Wang

A Naishi Dance Production

Eyes Wide Open is a slow-burn contemporary dance quartet asking: How to continue? Through thirteen cycles of repetition, four bodies move together while their individual experiences gradually diverge. As repetition becomes endurance, the work searches for what choreographer Naishi Wang calls soft resistance—a way of persisting without aggression. Eyes Wide Open creates a space where change and unchange coexist, asking what might be lost, gained, or transformed simply by continuing. Fall For Dance North IPP Showcase on October 23.

Touring Party of 6-7.

Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.

DANCE / CONTEMPORARY / QUARTET

PART OF AN AWARD WINNING TRILOGY

PROVISIONS

Created by Lauren Gillis & Alaine Hutton

A Lester Trips (Theatre) Production in Association with Factory Theatre

On earth, an ordinary broke person in the microgig economy accepts an odd job: accompany an agentic AI to the moon to retrieve the people and data from the failed lunar reality tv venture, and return them to earth before they suffocate. She soon discovers the inhabitants are not easily convinced to leave an erotic choose-your-own virtual reality simulation to board a space megabus back to burning earth. A secret VR love affair, a nun digging a gooneral, and all manner of bodily and metaphysical decomposition confirm suspicions that this gig extends far beyond occasionally assisting a bot with slippery door handles. On at Factory Theatre November 13 – 29, 2026. Learn more about the show here.

Touring Party of 4-6.

Photo by Michael Cooper.

Algorithm Shaman

Created by Corrina Bonshek, Chunket Chin, & Kevin Matthew Wong

Corrina Bonshek & Collaborators with Souls Impact Malaysia and Factory Theatre

Algorithm Shaman is a darkly funny theatrical concert exploring the strange ways technology shapes what we see, feel and believe. Created by Dora Award-winning Canadian theatre-maker Kevin Matthew Wong, Australian composer-producer Corrina Bonshek and Malaysian percussion artist Chunket Chin (Souls Impact), the work combines theatrical illusion, virtuosic percussion, electronics and video in a mischievous journey through the rituals and seductions of the digital age.

Touring Party of 4-5.

Photo courtesy of Chunket Chin.

MUSIC THEATRE / CONTEMPORARY / IN DEVELOPMENT

CABARET / DRAG / SOLO

Agit-Pop!

A multimedia doomsday cabaret by award-winning drag performance artist Pearle Harbour. 

With Agit-Pop!, Pearle takes on the world, weaving her acid wit and demented storytelling through the most anxiety-inducing headlines ripped from the daily rag.

Paired with bold re-imaginings of the biggest hits of the 20th century (musical director Stella Conway), Pearle sings the songs of David Bowie, Britney Spears, the Beach Boys, and more, as you’ve never heard them before.

Agit-Pop! has toured to every coast of Canada, from theatres to musical halls to defunct sex clubs, and premiered internationally (Bora-Bora, DK) in 2026. Scalable from audiences of 100-800.

pearleharbour.com/touring

Photo by Tanja-Tiziana