A Touchstone Theatre production, presented by Gateway Theatre
YAGA
By Kat Sandler
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 is the revisioning of a legendary folk anti-hero through Sandler’s razor-sharp feminist wit. Part thriller, part comedy, part nightmare fairy-tale, Yaga leads us into an unforgettable world of trickery and revenge.
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Show image by Emily Cooper. Pictured: Colleen Wheeler
Video and production photography by Pedro Augusto Meza
DATES:
Oct 24 - Nov 2, 2024
WHERE:
The Gateway MainStage
RUNNING TIME:
90 mins
CONTENT WARNING
This production contains adult themes, sexual references, and use of non-toxic haze. This production is suitable for all ages 15+.
SHOWTIMES: Oct 24 - Nov 2
Thurs. October 24 – 7:30PM (Pay-What-You-Will Preview)
Fri. October 25 – 7:30PM (Opening Night)
Sat. October 26 – 1PM (Open Experience)
Sat. October 26 – 7:30PM
Sun. October 27 – 1PM
Tues. October 29 – 7:30PM (2 for 1 Ticket Special! Use promo code YAGABOGO)
Wed. October 30 – 7:30PM
Thurs. October 31 – 7:30PM
Fri. November 1 – 7:30PM
Sat. November 2 – 1PM (VocalEye Live Audio Description option available)
Sat. November 2 – 7:30PM
Presenter
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Kat Sandler is an award winning screenwriter, playwright, director and the Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha in Toronto. She has staged seventeen of her original plays in the last eight years, including most recently, Yaga (Tarragon Theatre) and the simultaneous double bill of The Party and The Candidate (The Citadel Theatre), where the same cast raced back and forth between two theatres to perform in two simultaneous political farces, and Late Night, a theatre/tv hybrid produced with Moses Znaimer that recently aired on VisionTV. Her play, Mustard (Tarragon Theatre) won the Dora Award for Best New Play, and Bang Bang and Yaga were nominated for the same award. She won the Austen Film Festival’s inaugural Fiction Podcast Award for How To Build a Fire, and has been nominated for Sterling Awards, the Carol Bolt Award and the Cayle Chernin Award. Kat attended the Canadian Film Centre and eOne’s inaugural Adaptation Lab. She has written for Kim’s Convenience, and written fiction podcasts for The Koffler Centre, CBC’s PlayMe and TwoUp’s Limetown. She has various film and television projects in development with eOne, TB Content, Scythia Films, Stellar Citizens and the Donaldson Company. Kat is a graduate of Queen’s University.
