Making its Toronto premiere as Downstage Theatre Company’s debut production, Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention is a riveting two-hander that follows a friendship on the brink of collapse. Leaving no stone unturned, Bartlett deftly explores love, politics, addiction, and citizen responsibility through two best friends. Do opposites truly attract?

Directed by Dora-award winning actor and director 郝邦宇 Steven Hao, and featuring actors Jadyn Nasato and Jordan Kuper, An Intervention will leave audiences stunned this February at Native Earth Performing Arts’ Giizis Studio from February 13-15, 2026. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit Native Earth’s website.

About the Show:

A touching, funny play about what happens when your closest friendship starts to unravel. One of them went to the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

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An Intervention

Playwright: Mike Bartlett

Director: 郝邦宇 Steven Hao

Performance Dates:

○ Friday, February 13th, 7:30pm

○ Saturday, February 14th, 3:00pm

○ Saturday, February 14th, 7:30pm

○ Sunday, February 15th, 3:00pm

Venue: Native Earth Performing Arts, 585 Dundas St. E, Toronto ON.

Accolades:

This production of An Intervention is being led by prominent emerging theatre artists in Toronto. Director 郝邦宇 Steven Hao made waves with his direction of A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Patron’s Pick, Toronto Fringe 2022) and is a recipient of the 2024 Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble (Storybook Search). Actor Jadyn Nasato is the recipient of multiple acting accolades, including Best Performance in a Short Film (Desync, FascinAsian Film Festival 2024) and Best Supporting Performance in a Play (Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards 2024).

About Mike Bartlett (Playwright):

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Series two of Doctor Foster aired on BBC in 2017, as did his adaptation of his stage play King Charles III. He was Associate Playwright at Paines Plough, Writer-In-Residence at the National Theatre, and Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. His play King Charles III won the Critic’s Circle Award and the Olivier Award for Best New Play, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best New Play.

Love Love Love won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK, and Cock won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

He won the Writer’s Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking and the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts. In 2016, Bartlett won Outstanding Newcomer for British Television Writing at the British Screenwriters’ Awards for Doctor Foster.

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