FUSE: THE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM is dedicated to the development of new original scripts and adaptations that have potential for production on the Theatre Calgary stage. We invite you to play a key role in the development process through free public reading presentations. Your feedback can have a dramatic effect on the creative direction of these new works.
Plays developed through FUSE and premiered at Theatre Calgary include Timothy Findley’s The Wars, W.O. Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid, Beyond Eden, Lost – A Memoir, A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, and Liberation Days. Come be a part of Theatre Calgary’s future!
Projects developed through FUSE 2017:
All FUSE play readings are free but seating is limited.
HONOUR BEAT
By Tara Beagan
Friday May 5, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Theatre Calgary Rehearsal Hall, Arts Commons
Two grown sisters face off over a grand matriarch's deathbed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their Mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith.
VITAL SPIRITS
By Meg Braem
Friday May 12, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Theatre Calgary Rehearsal Hall, Arts Commons
Set in 1865, the inventory of bodies used for dissection at Queen's Medical School has become limited, because the local penitentiary's inmates are not dying at a rate that can supply demand. When the cemetary caretaker's daughter catches a desperate first year medical student attempting to rob one of the graves she strikes a deal: she will supply material and discretion, if he teaches her anatomy.
The Theatre Calgary Rehearsal Hall is accessible via the staircase inside the stage door entrance off of 9th Avenue SE.