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 for weekday matinees 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.
Wednesday Matinees:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Shakespeare, academia, etymology, linguistics, tragic-comedy
Prophetess is recommended for audience Grade 9+
Margaret, the Chair of her English Department — and the Queen of Etymology — snaps awake, haunted by a nightmare of spiders. As she confides in her love, Henry, over breakfast, that very same spider from her dream manifests — speaking, growling, and cursing her. And so begins the first day of her term: overrun with eight-legged beasts, sparring words, a battle for the throne, a journey of joyous love, and insatiable prophecies.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s History Plays, Prophetess excavates etymology to ask: What does it mean to curse or bless oneself? What are the words we choose to define ourselves — and our future?
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Theatre in translation, family secrets, small-town Newfoundland, drama
The Night Logan Woke Up is recommended for audience Grade 11+
As a girl, Emilia Lynch would cheat insomnia by slipping into neighboring houses to spy on people as they slept, including her childhood crush Logan Goodyear.
Now, many years later, Emilia— an internationally renowned embalmer to the rich and famous— has returned to her small Newfoundland town following the death of her mother. As she prepares for the funeral alongside her three brothers, a shocking revelation is unearthed in her mother’s will; the final devastating consequence of the night Logan woke up.
Surreal, daring, and darkly funny, The Night Logan Woke Up is one of Bouchard’s finest works, making its long-awaited English language world premiere.
Groups attending The Night Logan Woke Up have the opportunity to participate in Studio 180’s IN CLASS program to support students and teachers in their educational experience.
Studio 180 IN CLASS offers unique production-based workshops that enhance your experience at the theatre while promoting empathy, self-reflection, critical thinking and connection. These hands-on, three-session workshops prepare your students for mature and relevant material, nurturing a brave space in which students can grapple with big questions, examine diverse viewpoints, and draw inspiration for their own creation.
All workshop sessions take place in your classroom according to your timetable. Sessions at Tarragon theatre prior to or following the performance may be arranged when space is available. Session One contextualizes the play, preparing students for the major themes and sensitive subject matter. Session Two unpacks and examines the major themes and characters of the play, guiding students in their exploration of the big questions raised on stage. During Session Three, we springboard to student creation inspired by the play and the conversations it provokes.
For more information about Studio 180 IN CLASS, please connect with Heather at education@tarragontheatre.com
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Diasporic Gothic, Immersive Theatre, Iranian Diaspora, Magical Realism
Call Me By My Cousin’s Name is recommended for audience Grade 12+
William is an expert on his Persian wife Tara: her mother, her culture, her turn-ons. Yet their marriage is collapsing fast. So he plans one last BIG surprise with the help of his infinitely patient colleague Shahriar – who is desperate for a favour of his own. But when Tara’s estranged cousin arrives at the door, both women must figure out how to step over the threshold into brave new possibilities. And not just to escape William’s soggy shrimp.
Anahita Dehbonehie’s riotous Diaspora Gothic play is a thrilling exploration of life right now in Iran, life right now here, and the space between who we roleplay and who we long to be—with a shattering immersive climax.
Wednesday Matinee:
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Themes & Styles: Comedy, Kleptomania, Ageing, Class, Morality & Ethics
The Shoplifters is recommended for audience Grade 9+
In this new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over a seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime.
Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma’s less-cool accomplice. When they’re caught shoplifting, Alma does the talking—facing off against Dom, an eager rookie ready to call the cops, until his easygoing partner Otto steps in with a more sympathetic take. As wildly different perspectives collide, complex views on morality and ethics begin to emerge.
Panych’s comedy offers biting observations about society’s haves and have-nots and how much they might actually have in common.
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Death & Dyeing, Medicine & Technology, Care Work
You’re Still Here is recommended for audience Grade 10+
A new medical technology tests the impossible: accurately predicting when a person will die. When it is quietly introduced into a hospice, Dr. Froese, a leading palliative care physician, must navigate the ethical and emotional tremors it sends through his daily life.
What does it mean to live, knowing when we’ll die?
You’re Still Here examines the cost of knowing too much, and the ways medicine shapes our understanding of dying, asking how we measure a life when the end is no longer abstract.
Groups attending You’re Still Here have the opportunity to participate in Studio 180’s IN CLASS program to support students and teachers in their educational experience.
Studio 180 IN CLASS offers unique production-based workshops that enhance your experience at the theatre while promoting empathy, self-reflection, critical thinking and connection. These hands-on, three-session workshops prepare your students for mature and relevant material, nurturing a brave space in which students can grapple with big questions, examine diverse viewpoints, and draw inspiration for their own creation.
All workshop sessions take place in your classroom according to your timetable. Sessions at Tarragon theatre prior to or following the performance may be arranged when space is available. Session One contextualizes the play, preparing students for the major themes and sensitive subject matter. Session Two unpacks and examines the major themes and characters of the play, guiding students in their exploration of the big questions raised on stage. During Session Three, we springboard to student creation inspired by the play and the conversations it provokes.
For more information about Studio 180 IN CLASS, please connect with Heather at education@tarragontheatre.com
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Family, Identity, Coming-of-Age, Resisting societal expectations
Definition is recommended for audience Grade 9+
Ali is away from her family, trying to make peace with her past, while Martin struggles to find new meaning in his life back home.
Their daughter, Emerson, competes in her first spelling bee, determined to find her own voice against thunderous expectations.
Definition is a heartfelt journey of how we redefine ourselves when our dreams and expectations are compromised by life’s givings. Unfolding from a chance encounter at a library in 1999, this family’s present-day realities, and once-imagined futures seek new meaning.
Through laughter, memory and a little bit of spice (…Girls), this single day at the end of the world will unravel the origins and transform the future of their family as they know it.
Wednesday Matinee:
Additional dates may be available upon request
Themes & Styles: Fairytales (Baba Yaga), cop drama, witchy, dark-comedy, witty banter, thriller, TV crossover
YAGA is recommended for audience Grade 10+
Bad children are the softest, the easiest to eat; but a bad man’s bones hold power, and power tastes like salt.
YAGA is a genre-bending fairy tale meets whodunit, inspired by Baba Yaga, the witch who lives alone in the woods grinding the bones of the wicked.
A gruesome murder in a small town leads a local sheriff, a young detective, and a professor with a taste for younger men into a labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects.
A play that gives voice to the wicked old witch, it’s part thriller, part revenge play, and part fun.
YAGA is currently being adapted into a series for Crave coming in 2026.
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.
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30 Bridgman Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1X3
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