Touchstone Theatre kicks off its 2022-23 season with YAGA by Dora Mavor Award-winning playwright Kat Sandler
The genre-bending comedic thriller conjures the dark magic of wicked old witch and legendary Slavic anti-hero, Baba Yaga
Touchstone Theatre is thrilled to be launching its 2022-23 season with YAGA, a genre-bending comedic thriller that conjures the dark magic of wicked old witch and legendary Slavic anti-hero, Baba Yaga.
Having premiered to rave reviews at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, the play is by Kat Sandler, Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director and the artistic director of Theatre Brouhaha in Toronto.
Directed by Roy Surette, YAGA re-envisions legendary folk anti-hero Baba Yaga through Sandler’s razor-sharp feminist wit. Part thriller, part comedy, part nightmare, part fairy-tale, YAGA journeys into an unforgettable world of trickery and revenge—just in time for Halloween.
The work tells the tale of how the mysterious disappearance and suspected murder of a college bad boy leads a local small-town sheriff, a young private detective, and a university professor with a taste for younger men into a labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects.
YAGA stars Jessie award-winning Colleen Wheeler (Elizabeth Rex, Bard on the Beach), Genevieve Fleming(Clean, Neworld Theatre), and newcomer Aidan Correia (Amadeus, Phoenix Theatre).
YAGA runs October 27 to November 5 at the Historic Theatre at The Cultch.
For more information, see www.touchstonetheatre.com or call 604-709-9973.
For tickets, visit: https://thecultch.com/event/yaga/
Post sponsored by Touchstone Theatre.