Factory Theatre
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -Learn more about Factory Theatre by visiting www.factorytheatre.ca
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In Conversation Series Episode 1
December 11, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWelcome to our In Conversation Series. Today, we get to sit down with Director Soheil Parsa and Director Tawiah M’Carthy and talk about their process and approach to our productions of Daniel MacIvor in Monster and Here Lies Henry. Monster and Here Lies Henry on stage at Factory Theatre until December 17, 2023. Book Tickets to Monster by visiting www.factorytheatre.ca Book Tickets to Here Lies Henry by visiting www.factorytheatre.ca
A Nightmare on Bathurst Street
May 25, 2023 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBYou Can’t Get There From Here is returning by popular demand with its 3rd volume of audio dramas! This season will feature four commissioned audio experiences from award-winning Playwrights Monica Garrido, Catherine Hernandez, Elvira Kurt, and Aurora Stewart de Peña. This season, audiences are in for a scary good time. The episodes will take listeners on a vivid, eerie journey through one of the five primary senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste). This season we had the pleasure t...
Doubletree
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBSydney and Tara are a couple in love, who have recently inherited an apartment in Toronto – in today’s market better than winning the lottery. But was this apartment the start to their happy life together or the path to their destruction? Crime podcaster Dom Maxwell is determined to find out the truth. A horror story not for the faint of heart. From playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton, Doubletree brings an unsettling story about a couple’s demise and the death of their love. CREDIT...
A Good Place
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBSet in Toronto – considered a multicultural mosaic, a welcoming place for immigrants, and those who are searching for a better life. But can it become ‘home’ for everyone? Jorge misses’ home and his mother, and is trying his best to make a life for himself in this new city away from Mexico. John, a man of God, just wants to help him settle into this new life, but as Jorge struggles to find meaning, good work and fights to stay clean – can John really promise him a better life here? From aw...
Casting
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBA look into the world of T.V. casting, the discussions that happen, the decisions that are made, and the lack of opportunity given to those who have not been represented before. Ins Choi’s new audio drama takes audiences through a journey of understanding the challenging and uniquely flawed decision making of those who hold the most power in an industry that’s meant to represent the audience who watches. CREDITS Written by Ins Choi, Directed by Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster Featuring: Shawn Ah...
The Artists
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBLove sees no barriers – at least that is what young jazz musician Nicky hopes her judgemental mother Thea will believe when she is introduced to Nicky’s much older boyfriend. Nicky has been lying to her mother about her relationship with a much older man, a man she is in love with, a man she sees a long future with and man who is adamant to be introduced to her family. When they show up to Thea’s house for a birthday dinner, things go awry as past memories are brought up and old connections...
The Standard Sing
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBFrom the corner of Spadina and Dundas in the heart of Toronto’s Chinatown, two friends, Helen and Justin, find themselves led to an old and abandoned theatre after receiving a cryptic note. Known as The Standard in the early 1920s, during the height of Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act, this venue had a history of renting its space to Cantonese Opera performers. Once inside, Helen and Justin run into the theatre’s mysterious and charismatic caretaker, Mr. Sing, who muses enthusiastically abou...
Welcome to You Can't Get There From Here, Vol. 2!
February 23, 2022 04:00 - 4 minutes - 3.14 MBFive brand-new audio dramas dropping March 8, 2022! Following a highly acclaimed first season, Toronto's Factory Theatre is proud to be returning to headphones across the globe with You Can’t Get There From Here Vol. 2 - featuring five brand new audio dramas from some of Canada's most creative minds. You Can’t Get There From Here offers listeners fresh perspectives on familiar Toronto landmarks and neighbourhoods and glimpses into the micro-dramas occurring each day around us, hidden in pl...
The Toronto Pigeons
April 22, 2021 03:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBWritten by Luke Reece | Directed by Marcel Stewart Starring: Britta B., Trevlyn Kennedy, and Luke Reece Sound Design by Michelle Bensimon It’s June 13, 2019, and The Toronto Raptors are three hours away from their Game 6 tipoff with the Golden State Warriors. Two pigeons, Trae and A.C., are settling in above Jurassic Park in Toronto to watch the game when, all of a sudden, their excitement is interrupted by a kestrel named Klaw who crash lands on their perfect pigeon perch. Having never bee...
Every Minute of Every Day
April 15, 2021 03:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBWritten by Keith Barker | Directed by Akosua Amo-Adem Starring: Allison Edwards-Crewe and Marcia Johnson Sound Design by Michelle Bensimon Mia and Fran haven’t seen each other in years – too long for sisters to go without talking. When Fran visits Toronto to reconcile with her sister, the two decide to go on a journey down memory lane – revisiting iconic Toronto locations that hold treasured memories. But not everything between the sisters is what it seems. This striking new take on the “...
You Can't Get There From Here
April 08, 2021 03:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBWritten by Yvette Nolan | Directed by Cole Alvis Starring: Nicole Joy-Fraser, Derek Kwan, and Meghan Swaby Sound Design by Debashis Sinha Hanna has been the target of online protests and persecution and no one has heard from her in days. Worried for her well-being, two friends show up at her apartment to discover her all packed, ready to get outta dodge. Leah and David attempt to persuade Hanna to stay and fight, to continue living in the city as it changes before their very eyes. From awa...
First Métis Man of Odessa
April 01, 2021 03:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBWritten by Matthew MacKenzie | Directed by Nina Lee Aquino Starring: Christine Horne and Craig Lauzon Sound Design by Michelle Bensimon Set in Toronto; Odessa, Ukraine; and the liminal spaces between, Matthew Mackenzie’s First Métis Man of Odessa is a contemporary love story set against the backdrop of a global pandemic. No sooner do lovers Matt and Masha part ways for a short time last March, than COVID-19 shutters borders, keeping the new couple apart. Masha can’t get to Matt; Matt can’t...
Sisters
March 25, 2021 03:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBWritten by Anusree Roy | Directed by Nina Lee Aquino Starring: Ryan Hollyman, Gabriella Sundar Singh, and Mirabella Sundar Singh Sound Design by Debashis Sinha Inspired by a true story, Sisters from award-winning writer Anusree Roy, follows Millie and Rai, who have recently immigrated to Toronto from India with their father. Set over the course of one evening at Tatos Laundromat in New Toronto, the sisters fantasize about: what they will order at Tim Hortons, getting a cell phone, and how e...
Episode 0: Welcome to You Can't Get There From Here!
March 15, 2021 22:00 - 2 minutes - 2.11 MBFollowing a highly acclaimed first season, Factory Theatre is proud to be returning to headphones across the globe with You Can’t Get There From Here Vol. 2 in 2022! Welcome to You Can't Get There From Here - a brand new collection of audio dramas from Toronto’s Factory Theatre. A limited series featuring five commissioned audio theatrical works from some of Canada's most creative minds. You Can’t Get There From Here offers listeners fresh perspectives on familiar Toronto landmarks and ne...