Theo Fest
A mini festival of twelve solo performances to showcase work completed by students in DRAM439: Advanced Theatre and Performance Creation
Mar 28, 2025 - Mar 29, 2025
With this pass, you are welcome to see as many shows as you can on the Friday of TheoFest 2025!
When selecting shows, please note that each show has been allotted a 30 minute time slot, meaning if you are planning to see a show at 6:00, you should assume you will not be available again until 6:30.
Show Descriptions and Content Information (Warnings in Embedded Links) - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r18a8jBml6Qf6bDDb9LDaLnohNZr9sLWOGmKhlN_Z2M/edit?usp=sharing
With this pass, you are welcome to see as many shows as you can on the Saturday of TheoFest 2025!
When selecting shows, please note that each show has been allotted a 30 minute time slot, meaning if you are planning to see a show at 6:00, you should assume you will not be available again until 6:30.
Show Descriptions and Content Information (Warnings in Embedded Links) - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r18a8jBml6Qf6bDDb9LDaLnohNZr9sLWOGmKhlN_Z2M/edit?usp=sharing
With this pass, for the price of only 5 shows, you can see every single performance offered in TheoFest 2025!
When selecting shows, please note that each show has been allotted a 30 minute time slot, meaning if you are planning to see a show at 6:00, you should assume you will not be available again until 6:30.
Show Descriptions and Content Information (Warnings in Embedded Links) - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r18a8jBml6Qf6bDDb9LDaLnohNZr9sLWOGmKhlN_Z2M/edit?usp=sharing
To be able to see every single show offered in the festival, we recommend the following order:
- What We Leave Behind by Rachel Rusonik Friday March 28, 6:30pm
- Survival of the Fittest by Iulia Rus Friday March 28, 7:00pm
- Soft-Core Femme Erotica (Uncensored) by Grace Delamere Friday March 28, 7:30pm
- Ham.net (from William Shakespeare's Hamlet) adapted by Jake Henderson Friday March 28, 8:00pm
- How I (Will Be) Remember(ed) by Skyler James Friday March 28, 8:30pm
- Struggles of No Real Significance by Aiden Robert Bruce Friday March 28, 9:00pm
- Saw You in a Dream by Kelvin Chun Saturday March 29, 6:00pm
- Confessions 3:28-29 by Avery Boucher Saturday March 29, 6:30pm
- How to Make a Scary Puppet by Jonas Jacobson Saturday March 29, 7:00pm
- Wonder Land by Victoria J Marmulak Saturday March 29, 7:30pm
- crybaby by Charlie Hensel Saturday March 29, 8:00pm
- Survival of the Fittest by Sam Firlotte Saturday March 29, 8:30pm
Growing up is tough. School is tougher. And figuring out where you belong is hardest of all—especially when you're constantly told what to believe. Catholic school is a strange place to navigate childhood’s defining moments. But when you don’t quite fit, how far will you go to feel like you do?
Content Information:
- This show will take place in the THEO HALL CHAPEL. Please be respectful to the space, as we are borrowing the space. This does not mean that you cannot laugh; laughter is encouraged.
- A speaker will play music and sound cues. Nothing abrupt or very loud.
- Discussion of complicated Catholic school experience.
- Heavy content - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c_wlPOjcubFsK_q17XhWcg27QEA7oIG4i3nTrKiwm0A/edit?tab=t.0
Something is rotten in the server of Denmark. This one-man-adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores the authenticity of our digital identities through one of Western literature’s most contemplative characters. This kaleidoscopic performance asks if we can, to our own selves, be true when we are perceived through a myriad of digital lenses.
Content Information:
- Shakespearian language.
- Some flashing lights sequences.
- Use of screens and projections.
- Loud noises from speakers and performers.
- Digital unease.
- Dark Content - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/16UWnnaaMS1AqIcUkJfLoEvFgiLtflu92J4u8LtEZhDs/edit?tab=t.0
How I (Will Be) Remember(ed), set at the creator’s funeral, invites audiences to consume James’ memories through an immersive display of personal sound recordings. Taken from smartphone videos and voice notes from throughout James’ life, these sound recordings are how they remembered their life, but are also, after their death, how they are remembered.
Content Information:
- This is a standing-only performance. Patrons will be required to be standing for a maximum of twenty-five (25) minutes.
- Funeral setting
- Dim lighting
- This performance relies heavily on the medium of sound for storytelling purposes.
- Patrons who are hearing impaired are welcome to attend and enjoy the performance through tactile means. Please speak to the usher so you may be directed to a speaker that you can touch throughout the performance.
- Patrons (depending on the amount of patrons present at a given performance) may have to stand close to each other.
- The performer will individually address/speak to certain audience members.
- Moderately intense sensory aspects - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
- Mature content - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dWaeOTZoEuLlQrT2o0DUFA0WhjHXYDHdSbyWo5oUDNo/edit?tab=t.0
My show is a workshop on how to make a scary puppet. Together we will take an adventure where we get creative to learn how to design, sew, and create a scary puppet. We will start by exploring what makes a puppet scary. Is it its form? Is it uncanniness? Is it sharp body parts? Or is it the creation process itself? Sometimes the most horrifying experience is completing tasks. But surely making a puppet can't be a terrifying experience, right?
Content Information:
- This show takes the form of an interactive workshop.
- Patrons will be asked to work with sharp objects, such as needles and scissors.
- If you are susceptible and adverse to overstimulation, attend this show at your own discretion. For more information on overstimulation in this show - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings
- Vague mentions of domestic abuse - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHWayEvriywgSHOp410lVZYGz3Vg5s1Kw5LBrwanpHk/edit?tab=t.0
Have you ever regretted something so deeply that you’d do anything—at all costs—to go back and fix it? Saw You in a Dream takes audiences on a journey through remorse, trauma, loss, and the search for self-redirection — where relationships bend, identities shift, and life insists on moving forward. Because sometimes, the hardest journey is finding the way home to yourself.
Content Information:
- Music and sound effects playing on room speakers at fluctuating volumes throughout the performance.
- A patron will be invited to partake in a brief moment of interaction onstage. You may refuse participation.
- High emotional intensity content - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
- Sometimes jarring sound & lighting effects - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
- Strong language - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings below
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ebk06TO0PReDYoKE3fHCeZ-QglHJp2NCTmF0JAZdoeQ/edit?tab=t.0
Soft-Core Femme Erotica (Uncensored) - 22-year-old “girl” alone in bedroom - self-pleasure, degrading, stripping, lingerie, moaning - [young] [feminine] [blonde] [broken down by societies expectations]
***Enter FEMME’s bedroom and watch them unpack the reality of being assigned female at birth. This is an interactive performance and will involve physical touch. All participants are consenting. 18+***
Content Information - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings in the link below for elaboration.
- Audience participation including touch
- Partial nudity
- Dim lighting
- Patrons will be sitting on chairs close to the performer on Con Hall’s stage.
- Discussion and description of sexual assault
- Discussion of pornography and exposure to pornography at a young age.
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xx4cWK-8qJfozBgIQrjXxGI2a_jFovToTAWpuXbSo48/edit?tab=t.0
Have you ever felt different? Like no one quite understands you? No One Important has, and they're here to share their experience with abnormality. It really isn't that interesting or significant, but maybe you'll find something to chuckle at. Maybe something will resonate with you. Probably not, but who cares? It's something to do.
Content Information:
- This production features the use of extremely bright lights
- Mature Themes
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VN6UUx4--HaD_ULT0T94eqXD4BcPrYnQBW5PSUueLaw/edit?tab=t.0
In a world where subterranean lizard people are more than a conspiracy; one alligatorloving human with a penchant for green is finding it’s difficult to convince an angry mob that your illegal alligator girlfriend isn’t responsible for spreading diseases across the city.
Content Information:
- Tipping the Scales takes place in a bathroom in which all patrons will stand for approximately 20 minutes.
- Prop weapons will be provided for patrons to hold.
- Use of surprise elements - Read In-Depth Content Information & Warnings
- The space will be heated via space heater - prepare to be warm. Spray bottles of water will be provided.
- Performer will be directly addressing the audience.
In-Depth Content Information & Warnings - Copy and paste the following link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYgALtifQtgVQQBotqbk4eAfzDzwhejqOF8RRGVUrRk/edit?usp=sharing
Have you ever wanted to read someone's diary? Now's your chance. What We Live Behind cracks open the pages of a life in process, with i's dotted with hearts, awkward crushes, big dreams, family chaos, and what you most want to remember when you least expect it. This show explores learning what lasts through a completely unfiltered and only sometimes censored look at growing up and holding on.
"What is Canadiana? Is there even a ‘Canadian culture’? This is a young country populated by many different cultures across its vastness, and we are all so geographically removed from one another. This is an abundantly spiritual and resource-filled natural wonderland… how do we live within it together? Do we have anything in common? Should we feel proud to be Canadian? Do you feel more sentimentally attached to your ancestry or this country? How do you interrelate with this land that holds you? What is our purpose here together now? In the immersive, participatory experience, Wonder Land, you will compete in a game to determine what ‘Canadian things’ matter to you. You will have the chance to win a prize… so long as you don’t mistakenly step on the House Hippo."
Content Information:
- Music playing on room speakers at a moderate volume throughout the experience.
- A participatory experience in which patrons complete a worksheet with tasks, which are all voluntary.
- A game (low-stakes competition) in which patrons attempt to acquire the most points they can within the timeframe, working towards a mystery prize.
- Patrons move around the space, Theological Hall Room 102, to complete a worksheet by reading and engaging with different materials about aspects of Canadian culture and media.