It is 2019, and we enter a run-down Kansas Avenue on the tipping point of Renoviction. Through the shades of grey we get glimpses of the technicolor hopes and memories of this neighborhood’s long-standing inhabitants.  We meet Toto coming home after a long time away, a curmudgeonly Tin Man, and Scarecrow, who is afraid of his own potential. Auntie Em runs a cafe on Kansas Ave, which serves as a neutral zone for the Lions and Flying Monkeys.  In this dramatic comedy with live music and hip-hop, we uncover what home means to a community trying to find balance on unsteady ground.

The Crossroads: A Prison Cabaret tells a story of a world underground where banished souls from the ages are trapped deep under the crossroads outside of town.  They are kept entertained by a host of supernatural beings until they can find the key to their entrapment.

Sleeping Giants is a play about what happens when the world stops dreaming.   The show began inspired by such stories as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rip Van Winkle, and soon grew and evolved into a wholly original piece with music, costumes, lighting, set and props--all designed and built by the prisoner team.  We follow the story of five human dreamers and a family of dream spirits who act as guides through the subconscious landscape.

27 prisoners embarked upon an impossible task: to build a giant show from scratch, using the art of puppetry to tell all their own stories. There is no instruction manual.  The result is an hour of pure madness–an intense collage of stories where animals and humans reveal themselves through humour, darkness, and love.

This is no night at the opera.  CHALK is physical theatre performed in-the-round, by prisoners, for a public audience.   Follow eight children ‘down the rabbit hole’ into their dreams, fantasies and nightmares, as they face their fear of being alone.  William Head on Stage Theatre Society is the only prison theatre company of it’s kind in Canada where the general public can buy a ticket, enter the Institution, and experience their live shows.