Revolutionizing the Stage
Artistic Mission
Our theatre is radical and inspirational— forms, narratives, a unique fusion of interdisciplinary arts that you’ve never seen before on stage!
Our theatre is also about bringing communities together to celebrate and engage in the profound issues and joys of our sociopolitical times.
We are proudly, and shamefully, the ONLY professional theatre organization in Canada that prioritizes immigrants, newcomers, and refugees as part of our core mandate.
Mandate
Modern Times Stage Company is an imaginative, award-winning, immigrant theatre organization that has focused on celebrating and creating radical theatre in Canada for the last 37 years. With over 65 Dora nominations centring narratives, stories, and disciplines from around the world, Modern Times brings together an international fusion of cultures, politics, and philosophies for the enrichment of our contemporary, globally minded, Canadian context. We support artists and voices from the Persian, Desi, Arab, Muslim, Brown, South Asian, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, in addition to other equity-seeking groups.
Regardless of Liberal or Conservative government, Canada takes in a higher percentage of immigrants than any other Western country, and we empower the voices of this diverse, globalized, Canadian future.
In this way, we consider ourselves the most Canadian theatre organization of them all! A theatre that’s devoted to Canadian Futurism.
The Journey Thus Far…
Established in 1989 by iconic Persian theatre director Soheil Parsa and Peter Farbridge; our work has toured to Montreal, Colombia, the United States, Europe, and Iran. We have won and been nominated for 65+ Doras in our 34+ years of operating.
