THEATRE SHERIDAN'S FIRST DRAFTS DOUBLE-BILL
Featuring new Musicals by some of Canada's best writers and composers, these workshop presentations will premiere 45-minute excerpts of two never-before-seen scripts in their earliest stages of development.
First Drafts will be stand-and-sing presentations performed in the Studio Theatre of Sheridan College's Trafalgar Campus from October 7th-11th 2025
Meat
Book, Music, and Lyrics by alaska BBook by Aaron Jan
Original concept by alaska B and Ange Loft
If hell were a butcher shop, it would be Paradise Meat.
As Philippa’s 21st birthday approaches, it’s her last chance to escape the cursed family business she’s expected to inherit. When her long-estranged sister Nova returns, ready to take her place, their father won’t allow it. Can the sisters outrun the weight of their ancestors, or will Paradise Meat consume them both?
Content Advisory
This production contains strong language, depictions of drug and alcohol use, acts of violence, references to racial stereotypes, references to death and grief, weapon use, mentions of blood and murder, and depictions of satanic ritual. But all in good fun, of course! Viewer discretion is advised.
Created by Kelsi James and Griffin Hewitt
We heard the music. We saw the flame. We drew to board. We played the game.
It’s midnight in Toronto, at the end of the Great War. Eleven socialites have gathered behind closed doors to practice the nascent Spiritual Science of Séance, the attempt to make contact between the living and the dead. But when their ritual draws in an unexpected guest, what began as a novel diversion from the everyday is torn open to reveal the horrific secrets that truly haunt them.
Please be warned that this production includes disturbing and sudden loud noises and references to alcohol, war, religious imagery, guns and death. This performance also includes explorations of grief and artistic depictions of violence.
