Tarragon is proud to offer weekday matinee performances for student, school, and community groups. We offer post-show talkbacks for all our weekday matinees.
Student group tickets are $15 each and educator tickets are complimentary.
All our shows are accompanied by an educational Audience Resource Guide and Venue and Show Guide to help you and your students delve deep into the themes and content of the play.
Weekday Matinees:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes: verbatim theatre, family, love, friendship, selfhood, mental health, life’s BIG questions
CHILD-ish is recommended for audiences Grade 7+
Forty whip-smart and brutally honest children are asked about love, life, and the world. From their fresh perspectives four adult actors speak their exact words and make them their own!
Using the words of a younger generation, new ideas and experiences come to life through the voices of adults. Hilarious, profound, and surprising, CHILD-ish is an intergenerational new twist on ‘verbatim theatre’ from a creative team that spans ages 6-77.
Wednesday Matinees:
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Themes: Elevated/poetic text, love, relationships, loss, conflict, and communication styles
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion
to someone (-noun) is recommended for audiences Grade 10+
…profoundly… is a bold and unflinching exploration of love, desire, and human connection. Intimate, raw, and deeply moving, where hope meets vulnerability, and longing becomes language of its own. A must-see experience for those that believe ‘love’ is more than just a word – it’s an act, a feeling, a surrender.
With laughter through tears and the chasms between them, this triptych beautifully weaves the journeys of three couples seeking connection against all the elements that separate them. After the critically-acclaimed World Premiere at UK’s Royal Court, Tarragon and Obsidian come together in bringing a brand new production to Canada, marking its North American debut.
Weekday Matinees:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes: Indigenous voices, social justice, colonial history, family, comedy
Mischief is recommended for audiences Grade 9+
Brooke is perfectly content with her job selling cigarettes to the local fisherman at her uncle’s convenience store on the Rez. But what happens when a woman appears in a utility closet and claims to have known her mother? And where can she turn when one act of mischief derails her peace?
A heartwarming story where ancestry and the cost of justice collide, Mischief is a gentle comedy from lauded Mi’kmaw artist Lisa Nasson that celebrates the power of community.
Wednesday Matinees:
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Themes: community, crime, willful ignorance, apathy
The Neighbours is recommended for audience Grade 10+
Simon and Denise reside in a modest house on a quiet street, their life blissfully low-key and unassuming. But when it comes to light that their next-door neighbour has been hiding a sinister secret, it forces the couple to re-examine the past, leading the audience to a surprising conclusion that asks hard questions about the bonds that unite us.
From Governor General’s Award winner, Nicolas Billon (Butcher, Iceland), The Neighbours examines how good people can be complicit in acts of cruelty.
Wednesday Matinee:
Themes: love, aging, history, magic
Queen Maeve is recommended for audiences Grade 9+
A woman in a nursing home has seemingly made no impact on the world. Her secret is that she is actually the great Irish Warrior Queen Maeve, reincarnated into one of many deceptive forms.
From her bedroom, she confronts her past, losses she’s suffered, and mistakes she’s made in the name of love. Judith Thompson returns to Tarragon Theatre with her newest play, a masterwork of storytelling featuring Canadian theatre icon, Clare Coulter as Queen Maeve. Moving, heartbreaking, and beautiful, Queen Maeve intertwines magic with reality, and asks what it means to face your ‘twilight years’ with a sword in your hand.
Wednesday Matinees:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes: Indigenous voices, climate crises/justice, family, myth, spirituality
Strife is recommended for audiences Grade 10+
Monique, a tough and tenacious oil patch worker, is reeling from the brutal murder of her brother Nathan, an Indigenous climate activist. His violent death leaves Monique at a crossroads: trust the justice system or take action herself.
As she wrestles with her grief, Monique is plagued by a recurring dream in which she reconstructs Nathan’s bones from an owl pellet. This enigmatic vision is guided by the Owl, a spectral presence that is both a harbinger of darkness and a conduit for spirits with unfinished business. As the Owl urges her deeper into the mystery of her brother’s murder, Monique must confront the forces responsible and decide how far she is willing to go to find the truth.
Tense, poetic, and deeply visceral, Strife is a powerful reflection on loss, resilience, and the battle between hope and vengeance.
Wednesday Matinees:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes: magical realism, comedy, spooky, music, family, environment, math, philosophy
cicadas is recommended for audience Grade 9+
In 2035, a decade after the Trinity Bellwoods Collapse, an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a young girl leads to a very peculiar house that has sunk into the earth.
Could a strangely luminous painting unlock long-buried secrets of what flowed beneath the home? Howling winds, storms, and the ever-present sound of cicadas remind us that nothing stays buried.
cicadas is a modern eco-thriller from the minds of Governor General’s Award and Siminovitch Prize laureate David Yee and award-winning composer Chris Thornborrow that serves as both mystery and warning.
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes: mythology, incarceration, relationships
The Caged Bird Sings is recommended for audience Grade 9+
Witness a radical re-imagining of Rumi’s “Masnavi”.
The Caged Bird Sings tells the story of three prisoners: two star-crossed lovers and scientists – Rumi and Jin – who share a cell with Sal, a mysterious vagrant. As they navigate their new-found reality and reconcile their past lives, they are haunted by ghosts and demons of their own making.
The Caged Bird Sings explores the literal and metaphorical prisons that we are put in, put ourselves in, and the ones that we create. Inspired by Sufi mysticism and concepts of Fanafillah, the critically-acclaimed production examines our ability to overcome and break out of the cage.
Tarragon Theatre would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which we gather and operate is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Tarragon Theatre and the city of Toronto are covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
Charitable Registration Number: #11920 8700 RR0001
30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1X3
Box Office: 416-531-1827 (hours below)
Tickets, subscriptions and gift certificates can be purchased at www.tarragontheatre.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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30 Bridgman Ave (one block north of Dupont, two blocks east of Bathurst)
*We are closed on Sundays of non-performance weeks.
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