Auger by Ian McCormack
What: Staged play reading and Q&A
When: August 13th from 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Where: Cecil’s Brewhouse & Kitchen Map Room
Address: 192 Main St E, North Bay, ON (access through The Grande)
Cost: Pay-What-You-Can
Please join us for a staged reading of Ian McCormack’s new play, Auger. The play runs approximately 75 – 85 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A feedback session.
Content Warnings: The show contains themes and depictions of hate crimes, homophobia, and transphobia and mentions of death/suicide, plus some coarse language. The show has an age recommendation of 16+.
Play Synopsis:
Set on the ice of Lake Nipissing, “Auger” is a surrealist, queer play exploring the intergenerational effects of small-town insularity and prejudice in the North. Told through a chorus of neighbours, this Northern Ontario story showcases a town’s resistance to change. What starts as an ordinary day ice fishing transforms into something entirely unexpected when our characters encounter a faceless “presence” lurking beneath their feet.
About Ian McCormack:
Ian McCormack is an award-winning neurodivergent and queer playwright, dramaturg, producer, and puppeteer who splits their time between North Bay, Northern Ontario and Montréal, Quebec. With a focus on politics and social change, Ian’s theatre practice combines absurdity with reality, to create new works of theatre that transcend bodies and abilities. Ian is the Artistic Producer of Dense & Stage Theatre Collective in Montréal. Ian has also cultivated a transdisciplinary practice, working with a variety of companies, including Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Teesri Duniya Theatre (Montréal, QC), Theatre By The Bay (Barrie, ON), The Tamarack Festival (Timmins, ON) and the Bread & Puppet Theatre (Vermont).