Child/Youth/Adult: A great class for families and anyone looking for the full stage experience!
If you know, you know – our All Ages Plays are just about the most fun you can have at OST.
A pre-professional experience culminating in a full stage production. Learn about theatre – character development, stage business, voice, and movement – with a focus on multigenerational collaboration and fun! Great experience for the whole family, and anyone looking for a full rehearsal and show experience.
All who sign up for the All Ages Play by the registration deadline are guaranteed a role. Auditions are held after registration to determine what role each participant is assigned. Some roles are bigger than others, and all roles are important.
PLEASE NOTE : All adults (18+), whether they be volunteers, actors or crew, require a Police Check for the Vulnerable Sector to work the All Ages show. OST will supply a letter to support your application.
Fall Play: The House Rules (working title)
Written by Bruce Deachman, Joanna Henry, and Megan Piercey Monafu
Directed by Megan Piercey Monafu
Bailey is ready to leave the broken down housing co-op run by her father, where everyone knows everyone else’s business and amateur tunes from the music school on the first floor play day and night. But just as she’s ready to leave and pursue her dreams, tragedy strikes and Bailey’s tasked with saving the co-op and everyone in it. As a shiny new high rise goes up next door and political forces threaten the co-op’s survival, Bailey is pulled between the needs of others and her own ambitions. As she reaches her breaking point, a little bit of magic gives her a look into an alternate reality.
Inspired by the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, based in present-day Ottawa, exploring the idea ‘what would the world be like without you?’ It’s about the fun and frustration of living in a community, about housing politics, and most importantly, about family, duty and freedom.
AUDITIONS: Individual by appointment. Participants register for the All Ages Play through our registration software, and are contacted in August to set audition times.
GROUP AUDITION: Sunday, August 24, 2025
Rehearsals: Thursday evenings and Sunday daytimes from Sept 14 to Nov. 30, 2025; amount of rehearsal time depends on role, schedules to be announced.
Tech rehearsals and show dates: November 28-30, 2025
Participants MUST be available during this period for dress rehearsal and shows.
Fee: $65 for current students and family members of current OST students (A current student is a student registered in a regular 2024-25 OST class excluding All Ages plays)
$250 for non-current OST students
$65 for each additional family member of non-current OST students
DEADLINE for registration: Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 6pm
Registrations received after this date, and waitlist registrations, will be considered but will not be guaranteed a role.
Image from Skeleton Key’s 2018 production of Swan River, photo by Kamara Morozuk, L-R: David DaCosta, John Nolan, Tzeitel Abrego, Angela Schleihauf, Mitchel Rose
Spring Play: Swan River
Written by Kate Smith
Presented in partnership with Skeleton Key Theatre
Directed by Caity Smyck
Co-directed by Megan Piercey Monafu
Swan River is an outdoor ambulatory story that invites audiences to piece together clues and help brother and sister duo Pen and Cob unravel the mystery of their town, Swan River. Stepping into the world of the play, audiences will journey through the landscape experiencing theatre, music, visual imagery, and interactive installations. A story about identity, adaptability, and family, Swan River celebrates the extraordinary power that we all have to love one another unconditionally.
Swan River was created to be presented outdoors near a body of water to highlight the tension that exists between the familiar and the unfamiliar; what humans impose on the environment, and the natural world that they often feel disconnected from. Students will work with Skeleton Key Theatre artists and with Ottawa Riverkeeper in this unique OST offering.
AUDITIONS: Individual by appointment. Participants register for the All Ages Play through our registration software, and are contacted in January to set audition times.
GROUP AUDITION: Sunday, January 11, 2026
Rehearsals: Thursday evenings and Sunday daytimes from January 15 – June 20, 2026; amount of rehearsal time depends on role, schedules to be announced.
Tech rehearsals and show dates: June 8-20, 2026
Participants MUST be available during this period for dress rehearsal and shows.
Fee: $65 for current students and family member of current OST students (A current student is a student registered in a regular 2024-25 OST class excluding All Ages plays)
$250 for non-current OST students
$65 for each additional family member of non-current OST students
DEADLINE for registration: January 11, 2026 at 6pm
Registrations received after this date will be considered but will not be guaranteed a role.
