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- PLAYING NOW! the red light district's traveling circus presents WOYZECK at the lower ossington theatre, june 3-19. for more info, click here.

- the red light district's quest for justice has been accepted into the 2010 summerworks festival with the WITCH of edmonton, playing in trinity bellwoods park, august 5-14, 2010.





a red light district is a place where the usual rules of law do not apply. sex-trade, drug trafficking, and all manner of subversive behaviour can be tolerated.

the theatre is a place for breaking rules, subverting taboos, interrogating social norms.

the two share the common trait of being places where one indulges one's illicit desires / fantasies / fetishes.

the red light district is an independent toronto-based theatre collective formed in 2006 with the aim of radically reimagining classic texts (famous and forgotten).

we are here to engage in an interrogative dialectic over the little dash between yes and no.





it's subversive to play with reality, because it undermines reality. artworks don't have a function, they have an effect, in the sense that they cancel out the gravity of the old.

what we experience as reality is always the product of tradition. art, on the other hand, exists basically in the sphere of the non-traditional.

(heiner müller, the future is evil)





"better than any cast of veteran actors i've seen" - christopher hoile for EYE WEEKLY

upcoming shows:




WOYZECK:
lower ossington theatre
june 2010


the WITCH of edmonton:
august 2010


héloïse and abelard:
in development









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