PRODUCTIONS
WHERE STORY MEETS IDENTITY
Youtheatre Movement (YTM) will be a safe place for all people to express their stories through the various art forms.
We are committed to the health and vibrancy of the communities we touch, expecting ongoing relationships to be cultivated through workshops, ongoing mentorship, theatre productions, and community engagement. Youtheatre travels to places where people need to be heard, and as we walk with people, exchanging stories, we laugh, we cry, we eat and learn. This is the strength of what community offers.
OUR ETHOS
Shared Vulnerability
Uncompromising Truthfulness: The work rejects sentimentality, easy answers, and audience flattery. It pursues psychological, social, and existential truth even—especially—when that truth is uncomfortable, ugly, or ambivalent.
The Body as Text: The work recognizes that meaning lives in breath, gesture, muscle tension, and spatial relationship as much as in language.
Language as Weapon and Wound: Dialogue functions as combat, negotiation, and revelation. Words are not decorative but functional—tools people use to get what they need, to hide, to hurt, to connect.
Resistance to Spectacle: While visually compelling, the work refuses empty spectacle. Design elements serve the brutal clarity of the piece rather than obscuring it.
Rehearsal as Excavation: The creative process digs beneath social performance to find what people actually do rather than what they claim to do. This requires time, trust, and a willingness to fail repeatedly in search of authentic moments.
RE-GENERATION NATIONAL TOUR
YTM TOUR CHART
Theatre exists as one of the last unreproducible, unoptimizable human activities. It cannot be consumed on demand, cannot be infinitely scaled, cannot exist except through the commitment of bodies in time and space.
National Re-Gen Tour 26/27
British Columbia
Vancouver – October, 2026
Vancouver – January, 2027
Vancouver – May, 2027
Prince George – Sept. 12 – 19, 2027
Alberta
Edmonton – Sept. 20 – 27, 2027
Calgary – Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2027
Medicine Hat – TBA
Swift Current – TBA
Saskatchewan
Moosejaw – Oct.5 – 10, 2027
Regina – Oct. 11 – 18, 2027
Manitoba
Brandon – TBA
Winnipeg – Oct. 19 – 25, 2027
Ontario
Thunderbay – Oct. 26 – 31, 2027
Sault Saint Marie – Nov.1 – 8, 2027
Sudbury – Nov. 9 – 15, 2027
Toronto – Nov. 16 – 28, 2027
Ottawa – TBC
Quebec
Montreal – TBA
New Brunswick
Burnt Church – TBA
Moncton – TBA
Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown
Nova Scotia
Halifax – TBA
Sydney – TBA
Newfoundland
Cornerbrook – TBA
St.John’s – TBA
We’re coming to a city near you . . .
In an age of curated online identities and algorithmic interaction, Youtheatre offers unmediated human presence in all its awkwardness and unpredictability. We can ask the questions that other public forums increasingly cannot—questions about power, desire, violence, complicity, mortality.
THREE ORIGINAL PLAYS, A DOCU-SERIES, AND MORE . . .
“COM·PLIC·IT” is a journey into the intricacies surrounding the Residential School era circa 1970. Through collaboration, engagement, and respect for Indigenous knowledge, the project will help build bridges between cultures and strengthen the voices of Indigenous communities worldwide.
“HANDCUFFED” captures the descent of a young person who is dealing with severe bouts of addiction and suffers the ultimate demise of death by overdose. This downward depiction is meant to grab the attention of audiences of all ages, as it addresses the spiritual underpinnings surrounding the Opioid Crisis.
“HIGHWAY OF TEARS” is nestled amid the haunting beauty of British Columbia’s wilderness, the sleepy town of St. Wares has long carried a dark legacy. This play is dedicated to the lives who have been lost, and friends and families who have been touched by this deadly evil.
STORY WORKSHOPS
YTM will facilitate Story Workshops designed to suit each group of participants. They will include acting exercises and improvisation games. Together we will explore the nuance of Story and how we can inspire one another to new heights of learning.
“VOICES” – DOCU SERIES
YTM will be producing a Documentary Series during the TR Tour called, “VOICES”. We will engage various First Nations communities from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts, showcasing unique elements of 8 Tribes across Canada. LINK TO TEASER.
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