NEWS & EVENTS

“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 […]

This year’s World Theatre Day message comes from Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski. “…Most often I turn to prose for guidance.  Day in and day out I find myself thinking about writers who nearly one hundred years ago described prophetically but also restrainedly the decline of the European gods, the twilight that plunged our civilization into a darkness that has yet to be illumined…Their common sense of the inevitable end of the world—not of the planet but of the model of human […]