POSTPONED - This is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear
Performances are postponed
27 Mar 2025 – 29 Mar 2025
Unfortunately, the touring company is dealing with acute illness within their team and have had to postpone all scheduled performances. Patrons are encouraged to hold on to tickets until a new schedule of performances is available. All tickets remain valid. Otherwise, Grand OnStage subscribers may exchange tickets for current Grand OnStage season performances, or full refunds will be provided to patrons upon request. Please contact the Kingston Grand box office.
David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and strangers to read together out loud. It’s the story of the rise and fall of an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. A poetic fable about how to live with the slowly unfolding emergencies of our world, it’s also an invitation to join in on the artistic process, and a testament to the power of a roomful of people discovering a story together.
Created by a team of award-winning artists from across Canada, This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear invites you back to the theatre after the strangest years of our lives, asking you to help tell a story about worry and wonder, loneliness and community, beauty and despair.
Participate according to your own comfort – read for a character, join the chorus, or sit back and watch – and join this humorous, cathartic exploration of our innermost private fears.
Category
Resident company
Season
2024/25
Ticket Prices & Upcoming Performances
$29.50 plus HST and handling fee
- Thursday, March 27, 20257:30PM
- Friday, March 28, 20257:30PM
- Saturday, March 29, 20252:30PM
- Saturday, March 29, 20257:30PM
“I can’t think of another work of art, let alone theatre, that makes it so easy to collectively consider the terrifying aspects of our changing world and warming planet without shame and panic as an underscore, and where instead of being a chore or embarrassment, audience participation truly makes you feel less alone.”
Zoe Glassman, Edmonton
“this is the first show i saw in a theatre after the start of the pandemic. i cried the whole time. it was other-wordly wonderful. this is a very special play (? event? community happening?). don’t!!! miss!!! it!!!
Elena Eli Belyea, Edmonton
”We all have fears and sometimes we can be brave and sometimes we can’t. The play evades a simple answer. Nevertheless, the true outcome is that in the end, we have all partaken in a collective journey to create something that we don’t know how it goes, and we journey together with generosity for the risk of participating. The result is a kind of vulnerable rough beauty. “
Dr. Jenn Stephenson, PLAY: The Blog
“The divide between artist and audience becomes increasingly blurred, dynamizing the stage into a communal space for co-creation. If [this performance] proves anything, it’s that new theatrical places will continue to be explored as artists and audiences navigate the potentialities of the return to being together.”
Derek Manderson, smART Magazine
“Such a brilliant idea. The piece is intimate and deeply personal. It’s also driven by big, deep questions about human purpose and the much larger, mythic forces at work in all of our lives.”
Marcus Youssef, Siminovitch Prize-Winning Playwright, Vancouver
“I left the theatre, and a discussable and pleasurable evening, with a renewed appreciation that theatre, the art form of real people together in the same room sharing an experience, is on the right track. We’ve always known it: it’s validating to have a demo from an artist, a true original, that it’s meaningful, even cathartic, to tell stories together about what haunts us, scares us, weighs us down. There’s wonder in it. And wonder is enlivening.”
Liz Nichols, 12thnight.ca
