Matchstick Theatre presented the ten-year anniversary production of Catherine Banks’ Bone Cage at the Bus Stop Theatre, from October 5th-15th, 2017.

Set against the backdrop of the forestry industry, Bone Cage takes a hard look at the lives of seven people in rural Nova Scotia. Each of the intensely relatable and complex characters is looking to escape, but will their pasts, circumstances, or relationships allow it? It is a bleak, real, and identifiable play that pulls no punches.

Poster Design by Lindsay Laltoo (Art Things by Linds)
Photography by Samm Fisher (Samm Fisher Photography)

Matchstick Theatre presented Catherine Banks’ Bitter Rose at the Bus Stop Theatre from June 8th-11th, 2017.

While reading the morning obituaries, Rose wonders how she will be remembered. As a mother? As a wife? As an artist? In her desire to be seen and heard, she dons her wedding dress and visits her daughters’ school, her husband’s university, and the Superstore. Eventually Rose finds herself alone again in the basement.

Filled with memories and the weight of her choices, she opens up and unpacks her life, retracing the steps that have lead her to today. By inspecting her seemingly-perfect existence, Rose begins to understand the true cost of pursuing her art.

Matchstick Theatre presented Daniel MacIvor’s In On It at the Bus Stop Theatre from January 11th-15th, 2017.

That One is putting on a play and he’s enlisted the help of a former lover, This One. As their drama develops we come to learn that the play and the lives of its players hold many revealing similarities. Why has That One written this play? What purpose does it serve? A spiraling narrative that dazzles and entrances, Daniel MacIvor’s In On It is a many-faceted, contemporary Canadian gem.