Don’t miss this double bill of award-winning U of T talent—Stellar Parallax and Five Minutes Between Lion and Man—two celebrated festival hits now sharing the same stage.
Stellar Parallax is a bold multidisciplinary theatre piece that follows an AI android and the scientists racing to perfect it. When the android suddenly goes silent just before a high-stakes presentation, its creators—a neurologist and a roboticist—scramble to restore its voice before their funding disappears. Blending science and humanity, the piece asks urgent questions about communication, ableism, and what truly defines a human being.
Five Minutes Between Lion and Man is a queer contemporary reimagining of Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae. Agave, a washed-up wine mom, is thrilled to be invited to the season’s most exclusive rave. She stumbles out of the party drunk, hallucinating, and unable to remember the last few hours. She meets Dionysus, a semi-divine DJ who claims to know what happened—except he keeps lying. Agave wants to uncover the truth, but there’s one answer she can’t face: whose blood is on her hands. She’s normal! She’s fine! Nothing will go wrong!
