Staged Play Reading: Auger

Date and Time: Thursday, August 13th, 2026 1:30-4 pm

Location: Map Room (Cecil's Brewhouse & Kitchen, 300 Wyld St.)

Price: Pay What You Can ($2, $5 or $10)

Enjoy a staged play reading of new works "Auger" written by Ian McCormack. Followed by Q + A

The show should run approximately 75-85 minutes.

Artist BIO:

Ian McCormack is an award-winning neurodivergent and queer playwright, dramaturg, producer, and puppeteer who splits their time between North Bay, Northern Ontario and Montréal, Quebec. With a focus on politics and social change, Ian’s theatre practice combines absurdity with reality, to create new works of theatre that transcend bodies and abilities. Ian is the Artistic Producer of Dense & Stage Theatre Collective in Montréal. Ian has also cultivated a transdisciplinary practice, working with a variety of companies, including Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Teesri Duniya Theatre (Montréal, QC), Theatre By The Bay (Barrie, ON), The Tamarack Festival (Timmins, ON) and the Bread & Puppet Theatre (Vermont).

TITLE

Auger

PLAY DESCRIPTION:

Set on the ice of Lake Nipissing, “Auger” is a surrealist, queer play exploring the intergenerational effects of small-town insularity and prejudice in the North. Told through a chorus of neighbours, this Northern Ontario story showcases a town’s resistance to change. What starts as an ordinary day ice fishing transforms into something entirely unexpected when our characters encounter a faceless “presence” lurking beneath their feet.