A Western Gold Theatre Production in partnership with Touchstone Theatre and in association with United Players of Vancouver
Gertrude & Alice
Written by Evalyn Parry & Anna Chatterton, with Karin Randoja
Directed by Lois Anderson
NOVEMBER 6 – 23, 2025
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas revisit their forty-year partnership: the famed Paris salons where modernist giants gathered, the war years they endured, and Alice’s all-consuming devotion to Gertrude’s brilliance. Now, they return to ask how are they remembered? And what has been forgotten?
Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2018)
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WHERE
ADDRESS
581 Cardero St, 8th floor
RUN TIME
SHOWTIMES:
Thurs, Nov 6 @7:30PM – Preview
Fri, Nov 7 @7:30PM |OPENING
Sat, Nov 8 @2PM
Sat, Nov 8@7:30PM
Sun, Nov 9 @2PM
Wed, Nov 12 @7:30PM
Thurs, Nov 13 @2PM
Thurs, Nov 13 @7:30PM
Fri, Nov 14 @7:30PM
Sat, Nov 15 @2PM
Sat, Nov 15 @7:30PM
Sun, Nov 16 @2PM
Wed, Nov 19 @7:30PM
Thurs, Nov 20 @2PM
Thurs, Nov 20 @7:30PM
Fri, Nov 21 @7:30PM
Sat, Nov 22 @2PM
Sat, Nov 22 @7:30PM
Sun, Nov 23 @2PM – CLOSING
CONTENT INFO
CAST + ARTISTS
ARTISTS
Playwrights | Evalyn Parry & Anna Chatterton, with Karin Randoja
Director | Lois Anderson
Sound Designer | Julia Lank
Lighting Designer | Ben Paul
Stage Manager | Andy Sandberg
Costume Designer | Sheila White
Set/Props Designer | Cecilia Vadala
CAST
Gertrude Stein | Tanja Dixon-Warren
Alice B. Toklas | Kelsi James
Evalyn Parry creates theatre that excavates the stories we haven’t been told. Her acclaimed, genre-defying works SPIN and Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools have toured nationally and internationally, weaving together elements of social, and personal documentary, poetry and song to illuminate under-documented histories.
From 2015 to 2020, Evalyn served as Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. Recent directing credits include The 52 Live (Luminato Festival/Museum of Toronto); Why It’s Impossible by Sophia Fabiilli (GCTC, Ottawa); Paradise Lost by Erin Shields (Queen’s University); The Dialysis Project by Leah Lewis (RCAT Newfoundland); The Youth/Elders Project (Buddies); and the award-winning Obaaberima by Tawiah M’Carthy (Buddies).
Evalyn recently completed her Master’s in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University. Current playwriting projects include a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose commissioned by Caravan Theatre, and collaborating with Anna Chatterton on a new play inspired by the Wife of Bath from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Karin Randoja is a Toronto based director, actor, teacher and singer/composer. For over 30 years she has specialized in creating and directing devised performances, including (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them); Cliff Cardinal’s CBC Special; This is the Point; Gertrude and Alice; Jacinto; huff; Brotherhood: The Hiphopera; Breakfast and Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine. Karin is a proud founding member of Primus Theatre and The Independent Aunties. Her work has received numerous Canadian and International awards and has been seen in Australia, Denmark, England, India, Italy, France, Japan, Mozambique, Scotland and across the US. As a teacher/director, she has taught at Humber College, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Brock University and The National Theatre School of Canada, of which she is also a graduate.
