Teesri Duniya Theatre – Montréal

Change the World One Play at a Time

Theatre as a transformative tool. Bringing visible minorities from the margins to the center.

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Play Submissions

We welcome all playwrights whose work meets the above criteria and in which cultural diversity is significant in plot and characterization.

Residencies and Internships

Residencies and internships aim to build a new generation of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, gender diverse, artists and cultural workers across the sector.

Fireworks

The Fireworks Play Development Program is an intensive, structured and guided play development program. It is designed to assist emerging, socially engaged writers, particularly artists of colour and Indigenous peoples, queer and gender-diverse individuals, to develop their writing voice and professional profile. Fireworks is a development program for new and original plays.

Rangshala

Rangshala is our multipurpose, multifunction and convertible studio for productions, presentations and practice. Equipped with a convertible stage, lights and sound, it can seat up to 100 people.

Teesri Duniya Theatre and organizations based in the Cité-des-Hospitalières carry out their works at the Rangshala and other studios. Rangshala is available to our partners, theatre companies, art groups, and communities for rehearsals, presentations, community gatherings, meetings, conferences and other events at affordable costs.

Founders

From One Cultural Strand to Many

In 1981, Rana Bose and Rahul Varma co-founded the Teesri Duniya Theatre to address the absence of cultural diversity in Canadian theatre. Over the years, the company produced socially and politically charged plays featuring the lived and cultural experiences of visible minorities living in Canada.

In 1986, Bose left Teesri to establish Montreal Serai, a diverse literary magazine. The same year, Varma became the company’s sole artistic director. Varma continued Teesri’s cultural and political mandate, expanding its scope of diversity and inclusion.

“We see no separation between political and personal, between the issue and the aesthetic.”

– Rahul Varma, Artistic Director, Teesri Duniya Theatre

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Help us tell the untold stories of those who are unseen and unheard. We appreciate your donations.