Bolsheviki by David Fennario is a dramatic monologue set in a hotel bar in Montréal on Remembrance Day. WW1 veteran Harry ’Rosie’ Rollins tells young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins tells Nines about men pissing their pants, losing limbs and planning revolt against their officers. The account is light years away from the maudlin sentimentalism of ‘nation building’ which often characterizes conventional histories that deal with the experience of Canadian troops in WW1. Jerry Nines links the struggle to stop the First World War with the ongoing struggle to get Canadian troops out of Afghanistan.

“The tapes on?..you got the tape running?..ok…whats my name?...already told ya what my name is…you want me to say on the tape what my name is…Rosie,that’s they called me, Rosie Rollins, Harry to you, but its Rosie whenever I meet any of my old army pals which is not too often cause I never go to the Legion or any of those things, cause, I can’t be bothered listening to all those old farts talk about things they don’t really remember any more, or think they do remember but they’re not really remembering, they’re just repeating the bullshit they keep hearing about what they want us to think we remember...or is that too goddamn complicated for ya?...I mean we can just stop right now and just sit and just drink?...ya wanna go on?...ya wanna hear this?” –Rosie Rollins
Playing
SHOWTIME: NOVEMBER 9-28, 2010.

Joe Louis: An American Romace by David Sherman is a dramatic biography of the black boxer who, born into an Alabama sharecropping family, became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, defending his title 25 times from 1937 to 1948. He was also the first and possibly, until the election of President Barrack Obama, the most important black public personality in American history. Joe Louis died at the age of 66 in Las Vegas where he was working his final days as a meet-and-greet shill for a gambling Casino. The IRS had been hounding him for unpaid back income tax. Is this irony or tragedy? Joe Louis’ career and his personality had a profound effect on race perceptions and race relations in the States. Embraced emotionally as a super hero by millions, but dissed as a flawed human and inadequate icon to some few. What did Joe’s life do to alter the racism deeply buried in the psyche of the nation? Was he a figure who altered the course of history? Or was he a talented but selfish human being who succumbed to the hedonistic seduction of stardom? What might he have thought of himself as he lay dying? What would have been the bottom line on the accounting books of his Life? Mr. Sherman’s play has the courage to portray the racism in the United States, past and present, with stark reality. Broke, demented, addicted, an aging Joe Louis, is in the ring one last time, facing two opponents his feared right hand can't put down for the count – the IRS and time. In a way only possible in theatre, with humour, with great entertainment and with abundant use of historical news clips and visual power of mixed media, Joe watches his life flash before his eyes. A bruising look at sports, race and celebrity in America. A knockout.
SHOWTIME: JANUARY 25 - FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The Leisure Society by Francois Archambault will be presented for the first time in English, in Quebec. This play is a humourous and sometines brutally honest look at how we find and define meaning and purpose in our lives. A raunchy comedy of manners that (literally) strips naked today’s thirty-something  generation.
SHOWTIME: April 26- May 15, 2011

Pipline Series Through the white heat of a public presentation the strengths and flaws of a script in development become more apparent.The Pipeline series is a unique opportunity for audience members to voice their opinion on Infinithéâtre's future programming and influence Montréal's cultural landscape. As part of Infinithéâtre's ongoing efforts to bring the best writing to Montréal stages, the series features the best of our Write-On-Q! playwriting contest submissions. Read More...

SHOWTIME: December 10, 11 & 12, 2010