Stage Left: Our place
Black Theatre Workshop
November 18, 2025
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Title of production: Our Place
Run dates: November 19-30
19th Preview+Pay-What-You-Decide
22nd Community Night Pre-Show Talk (With and without dinner options - catered by Lloydie's)
Nov.22+27 Talkback with cast
Performance venue: Segal Centre for Performing Arts (Studio) 5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montreal
Tickets/Website: https://www.segalcentre.org/en/shows/2025-2026/our-place
Answers provided by: Laurie-Anne Jean-Baptiste
Give us an elevator pitch of your show.
Andrea and Niesha are two young women recently arrived from the Caribbean, working under the table at Jerk Pork Castle restaurant to send money home to family, and flirting with a visa expiration deadline while they “explore” ways to stay in the country.
What is your favourite part of this production?
On the first day of rehearsals director, Dian Marie Bridge asked the cast, crew and staff to tell a story about either their own or their family's immigration to Canada. The goal was to have people introduce a part of their personal story while collectively recognizing that we are all immigrants in Tiohtià:ke. Great stories emerged, making for a great team introductions!
Why is this play important for audiences to see right now?
Kanika Ambrose's Our Place is important for audiences to see right now, because it tells a story about immigration that some may have forgotten. Many Montreal theatregoers may be second or third-generation Canadians, but stories of immigrants needing to go to incredible lengths to start over in new countries continue to stay relevant and important.
How has the current social or political climate influenced this production?
"Our 2025-26 season explores themes of navigating and staying ahead of systems-whether these come in the form of people or governmental authorities. This is very reminiscent of the current social and political climate many are experiencing around the world. In Our Place, our characters’ dreams of a better world and life, require them to resort to hiding, silence, and flirting with criminality. The connections to community and our responsibility to each other come into question when survival for the weakest among us reflects on just how shifting the lines between right and wrong are." - Dian Marie Bridge, Artistic Director and Director.
How does this production align with your company’s mission or artistic vision?
BTW is Black, bold, and brave storytelling. Our Place touches on all of those points. Telling a story that is compelling and depicts human experience in original and bold ways.
Our Place
By Black Theatre Workshop
From November 19 to 30, 2025
At the Segal Centre for Performing Arts (Studio)