Current Work

Gailey Road's verbatim audio-play Out at School

​Out at School, ​is a verbatim audio-play about the experiences of LGBTQ families at school, created from excerpts from interviews undertaken with 37 families living in the province of Ontario, Canada, between 2014 and 2020.
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The play is divided into 3 parts, with each part ending with an original song composed and sung by Canadian queer folk musician Kate Reid.  Each of Kate’s songs are based the testimonies and stories the families shared in the interviews.

French Translation of Castor and Sylvie

Gailey Road is excited to be working with Emeline Beckmann on a French translation of Castor and Sylvie, a biography play about feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and her mid-life companion Sylvie Le Bon.  The English version of the play was last performed at The L Fest in Llandudno, Wales in 2018.  Castor and Sylvie is part of Gailey Road's ongoing project of bringing stories of queer families to the stage.
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Standing: Lori Nancy Kalamanski as Sylvie Sitting: Mary Ellen MacLean as Castor Dress Rehearsal for the L Fest, Wales, July 2018

About Us

 Gailey Road is an independent theatre company that stages research-based theatre about contemporary human, social, and political issues that affect us all.  Established in January 2007 by Artistic Director, performed ethnographer and playwright Tara Goldstein, Gailey Road has worked with over 60 writers and 80 theatre artists in the last 14 years. Gailey Road is committed to fostering dialogue around issues of systematic anti-semitism, cisheteronormativity, racism, and settler colonialism, particularly in schooling.  We are also committed to promoting LGBTQ+ voices both on and offstage. Our plays have been read, performed and discussed with a wide variety of audiences in high school, university, teacher education classes and education conferences.  Our plays have also been staged at 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. From 2011-2015 Gailey Road produced four seasons of a literary performance event called Women Writing Letters. Our latest productions are Castor and Sylvie a biography play about French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and her mid-life companion Sylvie Le Bon and Out at School a multi-media verbatim theatre piece which explores the experiences of LGBTQ Families in Ontario schools.