Dark comedy The Baking Show Show: The Play premieres with Ruby Slippers Theatre in February
Presented with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Presentation House Theatre, Faly Mevamanana’s play centres on a cultural obsession with competition
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Faly Mevamanana in The Baking Show Show: The Play. Photo by Emily Cooper
This February, Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the world premiere of The Baking Show Show: The Play, a dark comedy by Faly Mevamanana that’s full of sugar, salt, and sabotage.
Grace spirals into obsession while striving to win Canada’s most elite baking competition. The production examines what it means to have a white whale—a goal that is relentlessly pursued, but difficult to achieve—in the era of social media and reality TV. It unravels modern society’s cultural fixation on competition and the personal cost of attaining perfection.
Performances of The Baking Show Show: The Play are taking place at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from February 5 to 7, with a post-show talkback facilitated by Arthi Chandra on February 6; and at Presentation House Theatre from February 12 to 15, with a post-show talkback facilitated by Raugi Yu on February 13.
Playwright-actor Mevamanana has performed leading roles in seven provinces across Canada and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for individual performance. Her theatre credits include Alice In Pantoland at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre, Grease with Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops, and Juno’s Reward at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario.
Faly Mevamanana
Offstage, Mevamanana was a writing shadow on the long-running Canadian comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and an associate for the script-development program Write From the Hip with Toronto’s Nightwood Theatre. She participated in a comedy-writing mentorship with Allana Reoch of Kim’s Convenience and Strays. Her first play was workshopped during the LEAP intensive at the Arts Club Theatre Company, and she is currently writing a new comedy series for Bell Fibe TV1.
As a queer, mixed-race creator, Mevamanana focuses on telling stories that showcase marginalized voices in a joyful way. She is particularly interested in female-driven comedies that highlight the power of chosen family.
Mevamanana stars in The Baking Show Show: The Play alongside Sharon Crandall and Andy Marie. The creative team includes director Jasmine Chen, lighting designer Jonathan Kim, set designer Julia Kim, costume designer Alaia Hamer. The show also features sound design by Sapphire Haze (Aysha Dulong and Cindy Kao) and projection design by Vanka Salim.
Purchase tickets and learn more through Ruby Slippers Theatre.
Post sponsored by Ruby Slippers Theatre & Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
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