This year's show, Melodrama, will be presented on Friday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in BBOX, located in the Gateway at 1601 W. Mount Royal Ave.

From teen angst to blockbuster, Melodrama is an anthology of narratives, romantic and tragic, capturing the anxieties, expectations, and desires of this cohort. Melodrama details stories of metamorphosis. Garments become costumes defining archetypes, materializing a common mythos, and appealing to the pathos of the audience. Through this exercise in worldbuilding, we are able to release our inhibitions, with the stage as a mediator and conduit for vulnerability. Divergent stories are grounded by the common human experience of inhabiting a body, performing a role, and living in simultaneous rising and falling action, without ever finding true resolution.