Author:sean

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre artistic managing director Sean Devine  is running as the NDP candidate in the new federal riding of Nepean. Regardless of how this goes, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre will continue along in its mission. For more info and to find out how you might support Sean visit www.seandevine.ndp.ca  

As I sit in an airport in Ottawa waiting to board a flight to Seattle, inside my bag is arguably one of the most valuable and unique archival items I’ve ever had the good fortune to discover through research – EVER! Indiana Jones himself could swipe the item itself from my bag and yell “It belongs in a museum!” and he wouldn’t be exaggerating. I’m headed to Seattle to take part in a three-day script workshop of DAISY at ACT […]

And so it goes…Years of preparation. Months of labor. Weeks of sleeplessness. For brief days, nights and moments of joyful execution. RE:UNION has come and gone, and we’re all so grateful for the contributions of so many for having made it such a worthwhile and enjoyable endeavor. A big thank you to our hosts at Magnetic North Theatre Festival for having brought our show to this great event. Brenda Leadlay, Jennifer Fornelli, Jackie Young, Rachel Savard, Kristen Holfeuer, Owen Schellenberger, […]

From June 5 – 9, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre’s production of RE:UNION is part of the mainstage program of the 2015 Magnetic North Theatre Festival. We look forward to hosting Ottawa’s theatre-going community, but also the national and international assembly of theatre presenters, producers and artists participating in the Festival’s Industry Series. Please come and experience RE:UNION, with our three remaining performances: Sunday June 7 @ 4pm Monday June 8 @ 8pm Tuesday June 9 @ 8pm We’ve prepared […]

“The world doesn’t need a lot of martyrs…but it needs a few.” On November 2, 1965, an American Quaker named Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam War. Thirty-six years later, in the wake of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, […]

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre is extremely proud to be able to bring our production of RE:UNION to the very important Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa this June. We’ve spent the past 4 years since our first production of RE:UNION in 2011 preparing for this opportunity, and now we get to show RE:UNION to the world! Our audience this June 5 – 9 will consists of theatre presenters and producers from all across Canada and the world, as they […]