Stage One Festival of New Work

For 34 years, Lunchbox Theatre has been dedicated to the creation, development and production of new Canadian one-act plays, many of which have gone on to great acclaim after their premiere on our stage. Come by and be a part of the process and creation! Attend the FREE workshop readings and help us shape the new plays that will grace the Lunchbox stage in years to come.

For our 2022 Stage One Festival, we particularly focused on submissions of scripts that reflect one or more of the following themes:

Indigenous perspectives
joyful explorations of identity
hopeful looks at the future
the climate crisis, particularly stories that positively imagine ways forward
connection across lines of difference
… and of course: comedies, love stories and plays for the winter holidays

Who is it for?

adults

Tickets : Free Admission

How to get tickets?

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Date & Time:

These Moments of Shine
CAMILLE PAVLENKO
Friday March 11, 2022 at 12pm MT

Four unlikely Siberian women set out to make a Hollywood documentary about their lives in a tiny village on the Yenisei River. Their long-kept secrets, passions, rivalries, and ideas of what art might be are exposed and threaten their endeavour from the moment they hit ‘record’.

LOVE STRUCK
CONRAD BELAU
Saturday March 12, 2022 12pm MST

On an ordinary day, a meteor hits a building. Trapped on the top floor is hopeful publishing assistant Aiden and ambitious intern Bobbi. While they wait for their impending doom, Bobbi agrees to a first date with Aiden, should they survive. Five years later, Aiden and Bobbi are in a loving but mundane relationship. In an effort to rekindle the spark of how their relationship started, they decide to take on a series of “firsts.” First date, first kiss, and first time saying ‘I love you.” But can love strike twice?

Kisapmata
BIANCA MIRANDA
Saturday March 12, 2022 at 1:30pm

The Tagalog word “kisapmata” means “blink of an eye”. It’s also the title of a punk banger by Filipino band, Rivermaya. Inspired by this song, this play tells the love story of two Filipina women – one living in the diaspora and the other, born and raised in the Philippines. Through intimate vignettes, we see the longing, the diving in, and eventually, the letting go.

Twelve Days
JOE SLABE
Friday April 8, 2022 at 12pm MT

For Anton, studying at McGill was his ticket off the farm and the doorway to a larger world. Stuck at school over the holidays, he wants to make Christmas special for Donna, the girl in the practice room next to his, who inspires him with her music. Anton sets to work on making creative presents that charm Donna as they count down the twelve days to Christmas. But when his rival, Robert, invites Donna to spend Christmas with him at his family’s Toronto Mansion, Anton needs to decide how far he’s willing to go to give her the perfect gift.

Play That One Again
ZAHIDA RAHEMTULLA
Saturday April 9, 2022 at 12pm

Riaz is getting his father high for the first time, and together they discuss super-fruits, Kampala, the Beatles, and chemotherapy. A heartwarming play about family, mortality, and music in a time of great emotional strain. *The playwright gratefully acknowledges the support of Lunchbox Theatre, the Or Festival, Wet Ink Collective, Ignite! Youth Fest, and Carmen Aguirre in the development of Play that One Again.

I am the Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World
MELLISSA YUAN-INNES
Saturday April 9 2022 at 1:30pm

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160, 115 9 Ave SE
Calgary, AB

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