Liisa Repo-Martell, Maev Beaty Photo: Lorne Bridgman
By Erin Shields
Canadian Stage shares our work on four stages spread across our great city. The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Berkeley Street Theatre Complex bookend the vibrant St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood and run along what was once the shore of Lake Ontario. Our beautiful High Park Amphitheatre is nestled within the grassy hills and forests of our city’s most beloved park. And the Winter Garden Theatre is located in the heart of Toronto’s bustling downtown core. Canadian Stage is grateful to be able to tell our stories on this bountiful land that we all share.
This sacred land has held story for thousands of years: stories that live in the fabric of who we are as a nation. Canadian Stage would like to acknowledge and thank the original caretakers and knowledge keepers of this territory: the Anishinaabe Nations (including the Mississaugas of the Credit), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat and Métis Nations. We give thanks to the Nations recorded and unrecorded, acknowledged and unacknowledged, who also share the responsibility for this territory. We honour the Dish With One Spoon Treaty and our responsibility to peaceably share and care for the resources that surround us. We are honoured to be in this meeting place called Tkaronto that many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people from across Turtle Island call home.
You, Always
by Erin Shields
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Maev Beaty Liz Liisa Repo-Martell Delia
Erin Shields Playwright
Andrea Donaldson Director
Ting - Huan 挺歡 Christine Urquhart Set Design
Gil Ruston Head Technician, Lighting
Kendalin Bishop Assistant Technical Director
Janet Pym Head of Wardrobe
Shawn Kerwin Costume Design
Andre du Toit Lighting Design
Thomas Ryder-Payne Sound Design
Christina Fox Fight / Intimacy Director
Running Crew Production
Stephanie Graham Choreographer
Scarlett Larry Stage Manager
Mya Martinez Apprentice Stage Manager
Ben Junor House Technician, Audio
Quỳnh Diep Metcalf Foundation InternWardrobe Coordinator
Chris Faris Cutter/Stitcher
Mary Spyrakis Head of Props
Chynah Philadelphia Props Assistant
Alysson Bernabe Scenic Artist
Produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.MQlit.ca
“LOVE IS STRANGE”
Written by By Ellas McDaniel, Sylvia Robinson and Mickey Baker
Performed by Mickey & Sylvia
Courtesy of RCA Records by arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Chappell Music Canada (SOCAN) on behalf of Artemis Muziekuitgeverij B.V. and Ben-Ghazi Enterprises Inc.
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*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local SC659
This performance runs 90 minutes with no intermission
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Director’s Note
Andrea Donaldson
The title of Erin’s play — You, Always — has so many resonances: always is a word that should never be used in an argument; always captures the grooves we find ourselves in that irk us and feel so good; always expresses our longing for an eternity spent with a loved one. But the truth is that in the sentient world, there is no always.
Erin’s play taps into the rich dynamic of sisterhood. In this case the connection is biological, but there is a universality to this relationship that parallels forever-known dear friends who are also reciprocal keepers of identity and care. Though this play time-travels, You, Always is not about recalling or reflecting. Erin beautifully asserts that when we are with our closest person who has known us forever, our history is always present. These deep relationships help us to be our most authentic, fearless, loved selves.
You, Always is a play that is dear to me, just as my relationship with its playwright Erin Shields is dear to me. We have been there for each other like sisters through births, deaths, numerous successes and crushing defeats. Since our artistic infancy together, we have worked on almost a dozen projects: always feminist stories anchored in formal exploration.
I’m so thrilled to be working with Maev and Liisa in a duo again and at Canadian Stage for the first time with our incredible creative and production team on this love letter to sisterhood.
Andrea Donaldson
Maev Beaty – Liz
Canadian Stage: My Name is Lucy Barton, Tartuffe, Dream in High Park, Palace of the End. Other theatre: 9 seasons at Stratford Festival (Ransacking Troy, Much Ado). Over twenty premieres (Bunny, Secret Life of a Mother, The Last Wife) and classics (Tartuffe, August: Osage County) across Turtle Island. Film/TV: “Black Phone 2” with Ethan Hawke, “Beau Is Afraid” (dir. Ari Aster, with Joaquin Phoenix), “Dream Scenario” with Nicolas Cage, “Mouthpiece” (dir. Patricia Rozema). Maev is thrilled to be reunited with Liisa, Andrea and Erin and dedicates this to all sisters, whether blood or chosen.
Liisa Repo-Martell – Delia
The Welkin, Happy Place, Antigone, The Lesson, School for Wives (Soulpepper); Towards Youth, Uncle Vanya (Crow’s/Theatre Aquarius); A Beautiful View (Festival Players); What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2b Theatre); The Watershed and Seeds (Porte Parole); Other Desert Cities (Citadel); Creditors (Coal Mine); Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear (Stratford). Film/TV: “Hudson and Rex”, “Saint Pierre” (CBC); “Happy Place” (Sienna Films); “The Umbrella Academy” (Netflix). Writing: A new adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya for Crow’s and Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler for Coal Mine. Liisa Repo-Martell is an awardwinning stage and screen actor. She is also a founding member of ARCA - Artists for Real Climate Action.
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Erin Shields – Playwright
Ransacking Troy, Much Ado About Nothing, and Paradise Lost (Stratford); Queen Goneril (Soulpepper); Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish/Segal); Jane Eyre (Citadel); If We Were Birds (Tarragon). Upcoming productions include Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary (Crow’s Theatre) and Medusa (Soulpepper).
Andrea Donaldson – Director
CHILD-ish (Tarragon); Enormity, Girl and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood); The Queen In Me (COC/Amplified Opera/Nightwood/Theatre Gargantua); Mad Madge (Nightwood/VideoCab). Andrea Donaldson is the Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre, Canada’s preeminent feminist theatre in Toronto.
Ting - Huan 挺歡 Christine Urquhart – Set Design
Canadian Stage: Set Design - Unsafe, Costume Designer - Universal
Childcare. Other theatre: Costume Designer - The Hobbit (Stratford); Set and Costume Designer - Blues for an Alabama Sky; Costume Designer - Orphan of Chao (Shaw). urquhartdesign.com
Shawn Kerwin – Costume Design
Canadian Stage: Playing Shylock, The Tempest, Habitat, Heaven (set & costume); All’s Well That Ends Well, The Show-Off, Yesteryear, Saturday Sunday Monday, Love for Love (costume). Other Theatre: Turn of the Screw (Pacific Opera), The Goat (Stratford Festival), Lehman Trilogy (Belfry Theatre), Between Breaths (Artistic Fraud), Sea Sick (Theatre Centre) (set & costume); Come From Away (Gander Arts & Culture Centre) (set); Trials of Maggie Pollock (Blyth Festival) (costume). Professor Emeritus, York University.
Andre du Toit – Lighting Design
Canadian Stage: Fat Ham, Universal Child Care (with Quote Unquote), and Maanomaa, My Brother. Other theatre: Last Landscape (Bad New Days), Takwahiminana (Punctuate Theatre), A Public Display of Affection (Studio 180), Honey I’m Home (Lester Trips), Qalb (1s1 Theatre), Three Sisters (Soulpepper).
Thomas Ryder-Payne – Sound Design
Canadian Stage: Slave Play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Is God Is, You, Always, and more. Other theatre: Designs for National Arts Centre, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Mirvish Productions, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, YPT & more. Film/TV: “Plain View,” “7A,” “Blood Harvest,” “Hero.Traitor.Patriot,” “Alegra & Jim,” “Robert’s Circle.” Multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Studied composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University.
Christina Fox – Fight / Intimacy Director
Select credits: Mad Madge, Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs (Nightwood Theatre), Blackbird, Perfect on Paper (Talk Is Free Theatre); Oliver! (YES Theatre); Associate Fight Director (Stratford Festival). Select Intimacy Coordinator credits: “This is Not a Test”, “Settle Down” (CBC, OUTtv), “My Bully Mia”, “Ladyfingers”. Christina would like to thank their sisterswithout whom, Christina would be unmoored from themself.
Stephanie Graham – Choreographer
Canadian Stage: A Doll’s House. Other theatre: Legally Blonde (TC/CT); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Forgiveness, Twelfth Night (Stratford); Mary Poppins (TIP); Matilda (TUTS); Chicago (Globe); Fun Home, Grey Gardens, The Wild Party (Musical Stage). Stephanie is a director and award-winning choreographer and the Co-AD of Theatre Making Movement.
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Get That Hope, Wedding Band, Richard II, Little Women, I Am William (Stratford Festival); The Secret Chord, Kim’s Convenience, The Welkin, Detroit (Soulpepper); Letters From Max, Moonlight Schooner (Necessary Angel); WaterFall (Theatre Gargantua); Julius Caesar, The Wolves (Crow’s Theatre); Kiviuq Returns: An Inuit Epic (National Theatre of Greenland, Qaggiavuut!, Tarragon Theatre); The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes (Edinburgh and Toronto Fringe). MA in Art History and BFA in Theatre Production and Design from York University.
Mya Martinez – Apprentice Stage Manager
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A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Outside the March). Schooling: Humber College Theatre
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WILLY Little
By Ronnie Burkett
February 27 – April 5, 2026
Berkeley Street Theatre
Ronnie Burkett’s puppet-powered parody of Romeo and Juliet is riotously funny, gleefully inappropriate, and packed with sass, outrageous improv, and theatrical mayhem.
A Production of Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes Presented by Canadian Stage
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Fall On Your Knees (2024). Photo by Dahlia Katz
From Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, Clyde’s is a sharply funny, deeply human story about people rebuilding their lives on their own terms. Set in a roadside sandwich shop staffed by formerly incarcerated workers, the play explores dignity, purpose, and the radical power of second chances. If you loved the humour, compassion, and emotional honesty of You, Always, Clyde’s is your next must-see. This deliciously funny and deeply moving play celebrates flawed people finding purpose connection, and hope.
