undercurrents 2025: Foul Play
I didn’t think the world needed another high school Shakespeare adaptation — but I’m happy to share that I was wrong!
I didn’t think the world needed another high school Shakespeare adaptation — but I’m happy to share that I was wrong!
This week is Week 2 of Fresh Meat! Starting with plays on Thursday, October 20, the festival ends this Saturday, October 22, with a late-night closing party from 10pm to 2am at Arts Court.
Apt613 reviews five shows on opening weekend of Fresh Meat 8. Five new shows run next weekend, October 17–19.
It’s a feast of short plays, and ideas for plays, and this year the festival is opening over Thanksgiving weekend at Arts Court.
Eric Coates: “New work will only thrive as long as we celebrate the impulse to create it.”
Now a mainstay in the Ottawa theatre season, Fresh Meat has presented more than 50 world premieres of short plays. Fresh Meat 6 runs for two weekends from October 12–21 at the Arts Court Studio.