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bLOOD BROTHERS
August 8TH - 15TH 2026
DELTA UPSILON FRATERNITY
CREATED BY BRIANNA RUSSELL AND CATIE THORNE
Blood Brothers is an immersive, site-specific theatrical experience set in the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. A modern-day adaptation of Julius Caesar, where the audience is free to roam into the night of a fraternity’s annual hazing ceremony, Blood Brothers follows twelve young characters at will as their stories unfold and collide throughout the frat house.
Messy, brash, bold and unapologetic, Blood Brothers tells the story of young men and women caught in the vortex of power, privilege, influence and desire. When we’re faced with everything we’ve ever wanted, who do we turn into? Can we ever become more than what we were born to be?
Blood Brothers was presented at the SummerWorks Performance Festival as a part of Outside the March’s Expansion Pack Program.
icarus is falling
BY OWEN CARTER AND BRIANNA RUSSELL, DIRECTED BY ABIGAIL SULLIVAN
july 15th - july 26th, 2026
The hamilton fringe festival
The young Icarus has resigned himself to a life of monotony imprisoned inside the Labyrinth, forever overshadowed by the genius of his aging father, Daedalus. However, his world is thrown into disarray when Helios, the ancient sun god, appears on the roof, promising Icarus the two things he desires most- adoration and immortality. ‘Icarus is Falling’ delves into the intricate relationships between brilliant fathers, arrogant sons, and the power of their gods through an imagined retelling of the infamous Greek myth of youthful pride.
‘Icarus is Falling’ was the winner of the New Play Contest at Hamilton Fringe.
The astros
BY BRIANNA RUSSELL, DIRECTED BY CATIE THORNE
June 30th - july 12th, 2026
The toronto fringe festival
Tensions rise in Dressing Room Four of the Bay Arena, as the Ascension Astros prepare to face off against their rivals, the Carbonear Cardinals, in the final championship game of their high school careers. Following a group of young men with everything to lose, The Astros is a cautionary tale of small-town cycles of abuse, Canadian hockey culture, and the violence of masculinity.
TLDR; What happens when a high school hockey instigator punches the sh** out of the rival team's captain at an underage bar fight the night before their final championship game? The Astros, that's what.
The Virgin, Mary
April 30th - May 3rd, 2026
In 1994, lesbians Mary and Jo travel from their hometown in rural Newfoundland to the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Samos, Greece. Although Jo believes they have taken this journey for the sake of studying for her oh-so-important archaeological dissertation, Mary has a different plan- to pray to the goddess Hera for a biological child. Unable to adopt or marry, this baby is Mary’s last chance to prove that her and Jo can be a “real family.” However, Hera has other plans, and the trio are thrust into a confrontation that forces them to reckon with the definitions of family, faith and the miracle of love.
The Virgin, Mary explores queer parenthood through the eyes of two young women who navigate a society that refuses to recognize them as a family. A whirlwind one-act that examines queer motherhood, The Virgin, Mary asks the question- will our world ever truly change
The theatre centre - bmo incubator
bLOOD BROTHERS
August 1st - 3rd 2025
DELTA UPSILON FRATERNITY
CREATED BY BRIANNA RUSSELL AND CATIE THORNE
‘Blood Brothers’ was an immersive site-specific adaptation of Julius Caesar set at the Delta Upsilon Fraternity on the night of a fraternity’s annual hazing ceremony.
‘Blood Brothers’ had a sold-out run in August 2025, and was made possible by the support of the Society of the Creative School, Outside the March, and the Ontario Arts Council.
PONY GIRLS
JULY 16th - 27th 2026
HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
WRITTEN BY CATIE THORNE, DIRECTED BY MAYA RIKHI
‘Pony Girls’ is a short play that follows four vaudevillian show girls in the minutes leading up to their one-night-only show at the Tivoli Theatre, examining what it takes to be the bottom rung of show business.
‘Pony Girls’ was selected by the Hamilton Fringe Festival as part of their 2025 Fringe on the Streets programming.
bard luck
december 2nd 2024
MET CAMPUS PUB
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WITH HELP FROM CATIE THORNE
‘Bard Luck’ was a gamefied reading of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ that took place in a bar. Modelled after the rambunctious productions of Elizabethan England, actors took the stage with little to no rehearsal, performing this age-old play to a bar full of patrons.
