Plays
"I write texts for performance that engage the micropolitics of everyday life, that present people in states of extremity, that immerse the actor and spectator in the disturbing beauty of this world." — David Fancy
That Woman / Sex Tragedy
- About This Play
This riveting and intensely entertaining production explores the reality of sex in an online world.
Khalida
- About This Play
Khalida is a dynamic, poetic and politically relevant production featuring the confessions and testimony of Said, a man in flight from a conflict zone in the Middle East who has found himself in an oil producing country in the economic North.
CUT
- About This Play
How do we deal with fear and pain? CUT explores how a quartet of characters embark on very different journeys in response to this question.
Our Lady of Delicias
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Niagara is a key zone of passage for many migrants and refugees, and a milieu deeply dependent on migrant labour for its economic prosperity. Our Lady of Delicias explores an aspect of these realities with a close-up focus on the experience of one agricultural migrant worker family
Goya
- About This Play There is a particular trajectory traceable through Goya’s work: one that begins with sycophantic depictions of aristocracy and culminates in a grotesque apotheosis of images featuring excesses of human violence, superstition and greed. It is this voyage of distortion that we have set out to stage within another form of expression: opera.
Major Predictions, Barbara
- About This Play
David Fancy’s hack of the Shaw play is set in the world of video gaming: Cusins is a computer programmer who is pursuing a government contract for his software — a strategy calculator that can predict an enemy’s next move. Barbara is a surveillance genius and government-sanctioned hacker who wants to make sure that everything that Cusins does is morally right (as she sees it) for the gaming world. The play moves between virtual and real worlds, and it is Cusins who controls these moves, although it isn't long before Barbara catches up...
