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.

Calling Home is a new documentary play about Canadian military families separated during deployments to Afghanistan.  The show brings to life the heartbreaking, relatable, and even hilarious experiences of families trying to keep a sense of connection alive across time zones.

Renegade outdoor dance theatre.  High society tea crumbles into a display of primal instincts as nine women, painted an eerie chalk white, unravel their raw intuition.  Pretty Little Instincts premiered at the Victoria Fringe and toured to Fort York for the SummerWorks Festival National Series in Toronto 2010.

Table Top Tales is an adventure in storytelling, puppetry, and music. Join us as we share stories of family and friends, and the adventures and challenges of growing up. Parents and children will be invited to tell a story from their family lore: funny stories, scary stories, embarrassing stories, silly stories, heart-warming stories, even sad stories. Your stories will be brought to life before your eyes through the magic of puppetry. (Feeling shy? You can also just watch.)

Snack Music weaves together true stories in a way that is hyper-theatrical and immediate--and involves playing with your food. The show is part house-party, part improv, and part highly-choreographed storytelling.

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.

It’s the 17th Century; the armies of Spain are slaughtering their way across the New World, and one renowned conquistador, Antonio de Erauso, is famed for his ferocity – until, on trial for murdering his own brother, facing execution, Antonio pleads for clemency – by revealing that he’s actually an escaped nun. Imprisoned and enchained, haunted by the ghosts of the slain, the Lieutenant Nun confesses the story that has been kept secret for so long….

The space is clean.  Perfect.  Harmonious.  Until we discover a giant living lump - an enormous booger lurking amidst the garbage.  Absurd physical comedy set to classical music, inspired by Pixar, Dr Seuss, and Sci-Fi films of the 1970s.

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.

Twelve-year-old foster system rejects Franchesca and Nicholas live in a Universe all their own…but all that changes when they receive a letter from a blood relative which catapults the pair into the journey of a lifetime.  Armed with nothing but their wits, each other, and their superhero sensibilities, they embark on a search for the older brother they never knew existed.

Created and performed for the event Schoolhouse Rocks produced by Theatre SKAM & the Homegrown Collective in 2008 and 2009.  The audience tours through an old schoolhouse building and takes in a collection of performance shorts from ten different companies in ten different spaces.  SNAFU’s piece PRiMP took place in the girl’s washroom, and featured maxi-pad caterpillars, tampon mice, and a lot of candy.

BIKE RIDE is an annual event produced by Theatre SKAM, featuring short site-specific performances from ten different companies along the Galloping Goose Trail in Victoria, BC. SNAFU has created site-specific theatrical shows for BIKE RIDE (now called SKAMPEDE) since the event's inception in 2009.

Renegade outdoor dance theatre in grass and mud at sunset.  Painted dancers commit themselves to a state of extroverted trance and run, roll, and wrestle their way through an otherworldly reality.  

Riyoku Butoh follows a journey of self-inflicted isolation and the search for a human connection through a demented wonderland.  This production is not purely Butoh, but a blend of Butoh philosophy, modern dance and acrobatics used to explore the beauty and warped obsessions of human nature.

This beautifully twisted puppetry cabaret is performed by Ingrid Hansen, who also puppeteers for the Jim Henson Company. 75 minute live show for adults. Currently touring Canada, France, Mexico! Spicy, for age 14+.

You will leave this puppet show excited to sculpt your own goofy playdough monsters. 60 minutes live show for age 5+. Beloved by adults as well as children.