Never Walk Alone
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Playwright
Julie Phan 潘家雯
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Partners
In partnership with
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
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PNSNV -
Date of Event
May 14 to 24, 2025
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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto -
Ticket Prices
$23 to $34
Genrefuck Festival
Never Walk Alone
About the play:
T'was the night before Christmas at a strip club in Montreal when Honey is phoned by her long-estranged mother at the start of her shift: how will she get through the rest of her shift while juggling the memories, angst and wacky scenarios that get stirred up?
Never Walk Alone is a solo-live performance piece at the intersections of pole dance and theatre around identification, connection and expectations: it's a strange attempt at a heartwarming Christmas tale in the only way creator Julie Phan knows how.
In Partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and PNSNV
More about Buddies’ Genrefuck Festival:
Four movement-driven solo pieces. Four audacious artists. Buddies offers space for intimate works to converse and collide in a rolling run of double-bills.
Augusto Bitter’s world premiere Reina envisions the many lives of the anonymous woman depicted on a bag of Harina P.A.N. corn flour, as Julie Phan’s world premiere Never Walk Alone uses pole dance to navigate alienation, projection and inertia within different relational spheres. Gabriel Dharmoo’s Bijuriya code-switches between drag, song, and sound as it navigates its creator’s dual personas, while the Canadian premiere of Goner sees Marikiscrycrycry reimagine Black horror aesthetics for a live context through fearsome and sensuous choreography.
This is art on the edge of gender and genre. Welcome to Genrefuck.
Cast & Creatives
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Full Cast and Creative list coming soon!