Recent Performances  
Out at School
Three Performances for Toronto Pride 2019
Nexus Lounge @ OISE (12th floor)
252 Bloor Street West (at St. George subway)
Friday June 14, 2019, 7:00 pm
Saturday June 15, 2019, 2:00 pm
Saturday June 15, 2019, 7:00 pm

Out at School​, is a verbatim theatre piece based on interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) families about their experiences in Ontario elementary and secondary schools.

Recent Book Launch
Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School: Letters to Teachers (Includes the plays Snakes and Ladders and Out at School)
Tuesday March 5, 2019, 5:00-7:00 pm  
Nexus Lounge @ OISE
252 Bloor Street West (St. George subway)

Recent Talks
"Sharing Research Findings Through Verbatim Theatre" 
How To Build Bridges Symposium
2018 Arts and Industry Festival
Melbourne, Australia
The symposium, inspired by the Arts and Industry Festival's remount of the verbatim theatre play The Bridge brought together former West Gage Bridge workers, artists, academics and unions in a curated series of conversations, exchanges and performances about how to build bridges between art, industry, and social science research.  The Bridge ​shares the stories of workers who died building Melbourne's West Gate Bridge in 1970.  

Overland magazine has recently released The Bridge Podcast which provides a summary of Bridge Symposium and includes intimate accounts from workers who survived the West Gate Bridge collapse, scenes from the play The Bridge by Vicki Reynolds and a symbolic building of bridges through a musical performance of  "Throw Your Arms Around Me" with Mark Seymour, James Henry and local community singers, largely sung in the Indigenous language of Yuwaalaraay. https://overland.org.au/2019/01/podcast-the-bridge/

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​​Past Performances
Castor and Sylvie and Out at School
The L Fest in Llandudno, Wales, July 13-15, 2018

Castor and Sylvie

Set between 1960 and 1986, Castor and Sylvie is a story about the love and friendship between French philosopher, writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir (Castor) and her mid-life companion Sylvie Le Bon. While many people know about Simone de Beauvoir and her relationship with French existentialist Jean-PaulSartre, fewer know about her relationship with Le Bon. To legalize their relationship in 1980 Beauvoir was required to adopt Le Bon as her daughter. Castor and Sylvie explores this moment in their lives, a moment that took place thirty-three years before same-sex marriage was legalized in France.



​Castor                         Mary Ellen MacLean
Sylvie                           Lori Nancy Kalamanski

Playwright                   Tara Goldstein
Director                       Jenny Salisbury
Designer                      Sim Suzer
Illustrations                 benjamin lee hicks
Music                           Kate Reid
Stage Manager           Edil Ga'al

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Out at school

Out at School​, is a verbatim theatre piece of about 40 minutes which is based on interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) families about their experiences in Ontario elementary and secondary schools. The piece contains 11 monologues, each of which is accompanied by a visual image created by artist benjamin lee hicks.  The monologues are performed by 7 different characters/performers.  The performance includes two original songs “Pushing the Envelope” and "Let Love Be the Way" created by musician and songwriter Kate Reid from her engagement with the interviews and monologues.

Written and performed by the LGBTQ Families Speak Out Research Team 
Tara Goldstein
​Pam Baer
benjamin lee hicks
Kate Reid
​Jenny Salisbury

With additional performances from
Margot Huycke
​Mary Ellen MacLean
Lori Nancy Kalamanski

Director
Jenny Salisbury

Stage Manager
Edil Ga'al

 

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About Us

Founded in January 2007 by Toronto playwright and artistic director Tara Goldstein, Gailey Road produces research-informed theatre on social and political issues that impact on us all.  Our plays have been read, performed and discussed with a wide variety of audiences in high schools, universities, and conferences, the Toronto Fringe Festival, the Queer West Festival, the Toronto Pride Festival, La Festival Rosa in Bogotá, Colombia, the Toronto SummerWorks Festival, and The L Fest in Llandudno, Wales.  In the fall of 2011, Gailey Road produced its first Women Writing Letters literary performance event. Women Writing Letters completed its fourth season in April 2015. In January 2017, Gailey Road celebrated its 10th anniversary.  In the past 12 years, Gailey Road has worked with over 60 writers and 50 theatre artists.