Expanding the possibilities
of performance
Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
SummerWorks and Outside the March are excited to launch this new partnership, aiming to support innovative, sustainable, site-engaged performance in our community, and deliver new and immersive experiences for audiences across Toronto.
This inaugural Expansion Pack initiative supports one (1) production within the SummerWorks Performance Festival context, with access to Outside the March’s extensive library of Outfit the March equipment, and with fully-funded technical personnel to manage the equipment and support the overall artistic vision of the production.
The production will also receive fully-funded technical personnel to manage the equipment and support the overall artistic vision. Personnel will include experienced professionals and members of the Outside the March Artistic Accomplice Program.
The Expansion Pack is supported by The Canadian Green Alliance, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to greening the performing arts, and it is funded through a Sector Innovation and Development grant from The Canada Council for the Arts.
Introducing The Expansion Pack artists... Brianna Russell & Catie Thorne!
As the inaugural Expansion Pack artists, Brianna Russell and Catie Thorne of Sheep’s Clothing Theatre will develop and present Blood Brothers, for the 2026 SummerWorks Performance Festival. Created by Brianna and Catie, Blood Brothers is a free-roaming site-specific adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, set within a fraternity, on the night of a frat’s annual hazing ceremony.
Sheep’s Clothing Theatre is a company dedicated to the creation of the accessible and the unconventional, both in content and in style. Established in 2024, Sheep’s Clothing Theatre develops new works from theatre creators that focus on adapting and interpreting classical texts and stories in order to tell them through fresh perspectives.
Stay tuned for further details as we approach our full Festival programming announcement in June!
LEARN MORELearn more about Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers is an immersive, site-specific theatrical experience set in the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. In this modern-day adaptation of Julius Caesar, a free-roaming audience is thrust into the night of a fraternity’s annual hazing ceremony, following twelve different characters at will as their stories unfold and collide throughout the frat. Audiences are empowered to follow the stories they are drawn to, spectating from the fringes of the living room or sharing a couch with Brutus. Messy, brash, bold and unapologetic, Blood Brothers tells the story of young men and women caught in the vortex of power, privilege, influence and desire. When we’re faced with everything we’ve ever wanted, who do we become? Can we ever become more than what we were born to be? Blood Brothers might not have all the answers but it certainly asks the questions and has a hell of a time doing so.
photos by Audrey Persaud
ABOUT Outside the March
Outside the March creates unforgettable immersive encounters—redefining the experience of theatre for new generations of audiences. They’re one of Canada’s leading immersive theatre companies, with over 30 productions—including 17 world premieres—driven by the conviction that theatre’s secret weapon is the power of communal presence unique to live performance. Read more about their work and their “Outfit the March” capital project.
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