Evelyn Carlyle married the perfect man and created her ideal family. But when her three adult children return home to celebrate their parents’ 30th anniversary, Evelyn's creation starts to look like a failed lab experiment.

Choice, identity and the nature of connection collide in a gripping exploration of the intimate role of science and technology in our lives. How does technology shape our deepest familial relationships in ways we don’t understand or even recognize? What does it mean to grow-up in an age when technology gives us once impossible choices?

A powerful futuristic family drama that gets at the ancient roots of what it is to be human, or not.

A world premiere. The Anniversary is staged in-the-round.

PLEASE NOTE: AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK WHILE IN THE THEATRE. (See details below)

SHOWS

• Thursday, May 26 at 7:00pm
• Friday, May 27 at 7:00pm
• Saturday, May 28 at 2:00pm
• Saturday, May 28 at 7:00pm

General seating i.e. first come, first choice of seats. Show runs 85 mins, no intermission.

CAST AND CREW

• Writer: Jacob Berkowitz
• Director: Kevin Orr
• Stage Manager: Jane Vanstone Osborn 
• Costume Design: Vanessa Imeson
• Stage and Light Design: Jonathan Lockhart

Featuring:

• Kristina Watt
• Hugh Neilson
• Ludmylla Reis
• Puja Uppal
• Eve Beauchamp

COVID INFORMATION

LabO is a University of Ottawa facility. The University guidelines require that people attending campus wear a mask, regardless of provincial guidelines.

Audience members must wear a mask while in the theatre attending The Anniversary.

The performers are permitted to be without masks while on stage, and will be.

DOORS OPEN AND ACCESSIBILITY

Doors will open @ 6:45. LabO is fully accessible.

TRAVEL & PARKING

There is minimal street parking near LabO. There are several paid parking garages available in nearby hotels, at OttawaU, and in the Byward Market. The closest transit stops are the Mackenzie King Station, and the OTrain Rideau stations.

TICKETING AND REFUNDS

Please bring your Eventbrite ticket on your phone or as a printout. No refunds but tickets can be purchased on another's behalf or transferred.

CONTACT : theanniversaryplay@gmail.com