The Channel
Created by Alyssa Martin with Spencer Hack
Choreographed and Directed by Alyssa Martin
Starring Spencer Hack
Presented by Rock Bottom Movement in association with The Vault Creation Lab
The exciting collaboration between The Vault / Coal Mine Theatre continues as Rock Bottom movement presents a brand new original work from the wild and genius choreography brain of Alyssa Martin, with principal ballet dancer of the National Ballet of Canada Spencer Hack. Rock Bottom Movement takes over The Vault this Spring to rip up the floor with a Public Lab of The Channel. What does this entail? You’ll have to find out.
Inner Oceans
By Nicolas Billon
Starring Rebecca Auerbach
Directed/ Dramaturged by Christine Horne
Starring Liisa Repo-Martell, Ziska Louis and Ben Yoganathan
From Governor-General Award Winning Playwright Nicolas Billon (Elephant Song, Iceland, Butcher) comes a new play about family and the bonds that tie us. This November we present our final Public Lab of The Vault’s inaugural year, Inner Oceans by Nicolas Billon, Directed and Dramaturged by award winning artist Christine Horne. Starring Liisa Repo-Martell with Ziska Louis and Ben Yoganathan. For four nights only November 6-9 (matinee), 2025 join us for Inner Oceans!
A Little Closer
By Michael Ross Albert
Directed/ Dramaturged by Diana Bentley
Starring Breanna Dillon, David Reale, Cameron Laurie and Annie Lujan.
The carefully structured life of a professional cuddler begins to unravel as the strangers he welcomes into his home force him to confront his darkest secrets
AUDIENCE QUESTION: What does it mean to be a good person? We’ll ask the audience to lean into the moral grey ground with us and share their thoughts on character, morality and question the limits of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Discount Dave and The Fix
By Rebecca Auerbach
Starring Rebecca Auerbach
Directed / Dramaturged by Aviva Armour-Ostroff
When a rockstar crashes the backstage party at a Shakespeare Festival, a thrill-seeking young actor is set on a path of self-reckoning. A provocative blend of truth and fiction, Discount Dave and The Fix is a suspenseful, hilarious and harrowing examination of our obsession with celebrity, how addiction can bury our wounds, and what it takes to heal.
AUDIENCE QUESTION: How is a one woman show shaped by the audience experience and interaction? Rebecca and Aviva will investigate how the audience feedback shapes Rebecca’s performance and writing.
Reproduktion
By Amy Rutherford
Starring Katherine Gauthier, Maggie Huculak,
Rick Roberts and Tyrone Savage
Directed / Dramaturged by Jonathon Young
Flora, desperate to become pregnant, travels to her homeland of Sweden to undergo an alternative fertility treatment that is “guaranteed to reproduce.” As a result of the procedure, a surprising and dangerous transformation occurs, throwing everything she thought she knew about herself and the world into question. By turns funny and moving, Reproduktion examines the ancient imperative to procreate and how to find meaning in our lives when that primal call goes unanswered.
Award-winning playwright Amy Rutherford and director Jonathon Young join forces to create an unforgettable evening in which sounds are recorded and mixed live, reproducing the play's soundscore in real time each night.
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE: The sound experience will shift and grow nightly as the lab progresses and the creative team makes changes based on audience experience and feedback.
