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It's Our Biggest Season Yet in 2026!
“We continued to watch Ctrl-ART-Del expand in 2025. We have been honoured to watch actors across a wide range of ages work hard, take chances, and grow onstage. Our 2026 season is designed to provide opportunities for all these actors to stretch themselves even further. We can’t wait to watch them start to work on this exciting season of four very different shows.”
- Tim Nicholson, Artistic Director
A tragicomedy of three misfits, Punch Up navigates a hostage situation and a life-or-death comedy lesson to show just how far we’ll go for a laugh.
Punch UP by Kat Sandler was first produced by Theatre Brouhaha at the Toronto Fringe Festival in
July, 2014.
Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life. Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll give life another shot, but if she doesn’t even giggle, he'll help her go through with her plan. There’s just one catch: Duncan isn’t funny. At all. So he borrows Pat, his second-favourite comedian, to help him come up with the perfect routine. But A tragicomedy of three misfits, Punch Up navigates a hostage situation and a life-or-death comedy lesson to show just how far we’ll go for a laugh.
Punch Up will play from April 16-18th at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion.
"Punch Up" is staged by arrangement with Emma Laird, GGA, www.ggagency.ca.
Content Warning: Punch Up contains strong language and references to comedic violence. We recommend it for audience ages 13 and older.
Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin is a bold and blistering courtroom drama—by turns darkly comic and quietly devastating—about justice, duty, and righteous dissent. August 6-8 at the Haliburton Highlands Museum
The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood was first produced by Soulpepper Theatre in 2025.
Rural England, 1759. Halley’s Comet burns in the sky, and a young woman is sentenced to hang. But when she tries to escape the noose by claiming to be pregnant, a jury of twelve women are gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. As tensions rise, their task becomes a reckoning: with the law, with power, and with the roles they’re forced to play in a world that silences them
Ctrl-ART-Del's Amateur Production of The Welkin will play from August 6-8th at the Haliburton Highlands Museum.
Content Warning: THE WELKIN contains scenes of violence and mature content, including domestic abuse and miscarriage, descriptions of hanging and sexual assault, child death, and strong language.