Never Walk Alone

  • Playwright

    Julie Phan 潘家雯

  • Partners

    In partnership with
    Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
    an
    PNSNV

  • Date of Event

    May 21 to 31, 2025
    at
    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.

This is art on the edge of gender and genre. Welcome to Genrefuck.

Cast & Creatives

  • Julie Phan

    Creator, Producer, Performer, Costume Stylist

  • Tawiah M'Carthy

    Director

  • Matt McGeachy

    Dramaturg

  • Miquelon Rodriguez 

    Sound Designer, Assistant Director

  • Jawon Kang 

    Set Designer

  • Shawn Henry

    Lighting Designer

  • George Allister

    Video Design (VideoCompany)

  • Patrick Boivin

    Video Designer (VideoCompany)

  • Paul Flicker

    Producer

  • Annasofie Jakobsen

    Production Manager

  • Anthony Allan

    Technical Director

  • Carley Melvin

    Set Assistant

  • Isabelle Le

    Pole Dance Coach

  • Anaëlle Sauvet

    Pole Dance Coach

  • Alex Chung

    Marketing

  • Felice Trinidad

    Marketing

  • Madeline Fiore

    Marketing