STUFF

STUFF premieres for the public as part of the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s 2023-24 season.

Poster for STUFF hand drawn landfill with youth photos.

STUFF is about…our stuff. And us. And a planet we call home. 

Imagine a time that could be now when teens all over the world –Teenage Task Forces– unite with one goal: eliminate stuff. They create the ITTFOSTWN: the International Teenage Task Force of Stuff That We Don’t Need. Impossible?

STUFF is about our attachment to material possessions, consumption, and confusing need with greed. Meanwhile, this living thing called Earth pays the price. But you know all this? 

Oh – one more thing: STUFF is about being human: the “I am because I have” and the challenge of letting go.

Dates: May 1- 4

Wed: 7 pm

Thurs: 12 pm (student matinee) & 7pm

Fri: 12 pm (student matinee) & 7pm

Sat: 2 pm & 7 pm

Where: Studio Theatre, GCTC

1233 Wellington St. W. Ottawa, Canada

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Tickets: Pick-Your-Price $15, $20 or $25. (General Admission). Limited Seating.

Ticket proceeds go towards future professional theatre projects that give a creative voice to youth.

Purchase Tickets: online by using the button below or by phone through the GCTC box office: 613-236-5196.

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Show Times

calendar of show dates and times
Learn more about the Creative Team here

100 Watt ensemble at Play

scripts and pieces of paper on a table
In Rehearsal- text work collaboration
youth spread out in a game.
In Rehearsal- game play
Youth sit on stools facing a podium
In Rehearsal- Courtroom set up
Youth sit on stools
In Rehearsal- Youth sit on stools looking to their left.
Youth sit in chairs and one stands
In Rehearsal- Playing together: Chair game
Youth in rehearsal
In Rehearsal- Director Kristina Watt sitting pointing to the left, youth on stage.
Youth dance in a studio
In Rehearsal- Playing and finding rhythm
Youth running in a studio
In Rehearsal- Tail game play
A youth sneaks up on another
In Rehearsal- Tail Game 2
Two youth face off
In Rehearsal- Tail Game 3
Youth sitting in a circle at tables.
In Rehearsal- Tablework
Youth sit in audience seats
Youth ensemble attend the Invited Dress of “Women of the Furtrade” at the NAC.
handwritten note.
In Rehearsal- A fun response from one of the actors of STUFF.
youth in lobby pose for picture
Youth at GCTC’s Invited Dress Rehearsal for “The Waltz”.
Mannequin in Lobby Display, designed by Alex Farnel (Youth Ensemble)
GCTC Lobby with STUFF waterfall dress of stuff, designed by Alex Farnel (Youth Ensemble)
Youth Alex Farnel and Kristina Watt: Lobby Display Mannequin designed by Megan
Dress installation sketch

the making of the Poster for STUFF

  • sketch with blue and purple, green notes
    STUFF poster 2024 draft version 1 (Stripetta ver.)
  • more greyscale, figure sitting in landfill with garbage bags, red sketched figures.
    STUFF poster 2024 draft Clay dress version
  • clear lines defining trash bags and garbage and figure.
    STUFF poster 2024 cleanup draft without background
  • photos of youth stand and sit in landfill with drawn landfill
    STUFF 2024 cleanup draft without background, 12 cast collage
  • greyscale with a shopping cart and person falling into landfill from the sky.
    STUFF 2024 cleanup draft with background
  • greyscale with colour photos of youth
    STUFF 2024 cleanup draft with background, 12 cast collage
  • grey scale with colourful river, youth photos
    Poster with a purple, blue river running through the landfill.
  • drawing with green pink and purple added to image
    Poster with more colours, light green background, hills of landfill are pink with the colourful purple/blue river.
  • poster with lighter hills of landfill.
    Poster with added contrast for highlights and darker lines for landfill image.
  • more contrast for the landfill hills.
    Poster with added contrast, darker lines for the hills of the landfill.
  • image with lightbulb
    100 watt lightbulb added to the right of the river
  • lightbulb on the left top hill
    100 watt lightbulb added to left hill under jumping youth.
  • lightbuld on the bottom left beside river
    100 watt lightbulb beside the river on the left.

Acknowledgements

STUFF is a 100 Watt Production with the Great Canadian Theatre Company. 

100 Watt: professional theatre created in collaboration with youth for audiences of all generations.

With thanks to the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council of the Arts, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre and the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. The 100 Watt Youth Ensemble are Resident Artists of the GCTC 2023-24.

ontario arts council logo
university of ottawa logo

[STUFF (Artwork Sophie Dean) [Image Description: Hand drawn poster image with photos of youth collaged in. Overall image of a landfill with two mountainous piles on the left and right. At the center is a river of glowing blues and purples, Three youth sit and play. A tall hand drawn figure stands in the center facing away, they are taller than the pile of garbage. They look out at a hazy green coloured horizon. Falling from the top of the image is a grocery cart and person, they appear to be coming from a break in the clouds with beams of light breaking through.]