The one that started it all! Home was our first production (Home + First = HomeFirst!)

Home had its world premiere production by HomeFirst Theatre at the Bus Stop Theatre in February 2010. Home is a play by Governor General Award Winner Colleen Wagner (The Monument).

"Home is always in the past. It's a past tense.”

Taking place in both Canada and Estonia, we follow the elderly Toomas and his son as they claim reparation rights in Tallinn, the city of Toomas’ birth. Things turn out to be not quite as he remembers when their return to the family home finds three Russian women who have lived there for generations. The result is a tragicomedy of missed cues and shattered dreams.

"Colleen Wagner has created moments that I will long be thinking about... I marvel at her ability to write primarily in English yet to give the flavour of several languages.”

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The Coast Reviews Home

L to R: John Beale and David Hughes THE COAST ON “HOME” Read Kate Watson’s review to learn the many reasons she calls Home “outstanding”.

February 25, 2010 No Comments

“Home and Away” in The Coast

L to R: David Hughes, John Beale, and Sarah English “Home” and Away – Preview in The Coast Playwright Colleen Wagner describes how home is

February 18, 2010 No Comments

CAST

Karen Bassett
Elina

John Beale
Wendall

Mary-Colin Chisholm
Yanna

Sarah English
Sonya

David Hughes
Toomas

CREATIVE TEAM

Sylvia Bell
Stage Manager

Paul Cram
Sound Designer

Leesa Hamilton
Costume Designer

Andrew Murray
Set Designer

Ingrid Risk
Technical Director

Lisa Rose Snow
Producer

Leigh Ann Vardy
Lighting Designer

Mary Vingoe
Director

Colleen Wagner
Playwright

GOVERNMENT & PRIVATE FUNDERS

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HomeFirst Theatre is located in Punamu’kwati’jk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources but recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
We are all treaty people.