Tough Guy
Oct. 28, 2025 to Nov. 8, 2025
Tickets are under $50
Tough Guy follows a group of friends as they navigate the aftermath of a shooting at Aria, a queer nightclub.
They’re all nursing wounds, visible
and invisible, and are thrown into further turmoil when their friend
Emerson, a rising star in the independent film scene, comes back home to
film a documentary about the shooting. How do we go on when the
unthinkable happens? What does it mean to point a camera at a
catastrophe? How does queerness endure, time and time again?
Winner
of the 2025 Westbury Family Theatre Award and the 2025 Alberta
Playwriting Competition, Tough Guy is at once an excavation of a tragedy
and a celebration of the tenacity of queer joy. It’s gripping, visceral,
sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, always unapologetic.
CAST
Mel Bahniuk
Michelle Diaz
Jasmine Hopfe
Marguerite Lawler
Autumn
Strom
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright/Producer - Hayley Moorhouse
Director - Brett Dahl
Dramaturg
- Evan Medd
Stage Manager - Jess Haight
Production Manager - Liv
Bunge
Set/Lighting Designer - Lieke den Bakker
Sound Designer -
Kena León
Projection Designer - Ian Jackson
Persistent Myth Productions engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the INDIE 3.0.
10330 84 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2G9
More dates and times
- Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025 at 2:00pm
- Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025 at 2:00pm
- Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 at 8:00pm
- Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 at 2:00pm
- Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 at 8:00pm
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