Dive into Age of Arousal, a powerful ensemble piece by acclaimed playwright Linda Griffiths. Set in an era of tumultuous change, this play explores the forbidden and gloriously liberated self, where characters grapple with explosive and contradictory desires. Griffiths, a winner of five Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a Gemini Award, crafts a provocative and compelling narrative that you won’t want to miss.

It's a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It's 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden - spinsters Virginia and Alice and beautiful young Monica - arrive, along with the attractive Dr. Everard Barfoot, things can never be the same.

Age of Arousal is a lavish, sexy, frenetic ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self - genre-busting, rule-bending, and ambitiously original.

Age of Arousal by Linda Griffiths

Wildly inspired by The Odd Women by George Gissing

Director: Victoria Shepherd

March 12–23, 2025

Location: Alumnae Theatre Studio, 70 Berkeley St, Toronto, ON M5A 2W6

Disclaimer: Age of Arousal is playing in Alumnae Theatre’s third-floor walk-up studio, which is not currently wheelchair accessible.

For tickets visit alumnaetheatre.com