Current Mandate & Mission statement:
"Innovation, Communication, Collaboration"
The Theatre Centre aims to develop, create and promote exciting, interdisciplinary, innovative, accessible, high quality theatre through creative collaboration between artists, staff and community. The Theatre provides opportunity for growth at the centre of all its activities.

Archive of Past Shows

History:

The B.A.A.N.N. Theatre Centre was founded in 1979 by a co-opperative of six independent theatre companies - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Autumn Leaf Theatre, AKA Performance Interface, Necessary Angel and Nightwood Theatre. It was incorporated as a non-profit in 1981, with registered charitable status. By the mid-1980's the six companies left, and the Theatre Centre remained to assist other emerging artists and groups. In 1984 The Theatre Centre established its R&D (Research & Development) program and became the leading proponent for theatrical exploration in the city.

In the past, The Theatre Centre was extremely successful in developing unique and innovative works of art by way of its contributions of a venue, equipment and senior artistic and administrative staff. It's productions redefined theatre practices and provided unique and innovative work.

The Theatre Centre has co-produced a number of highly successful and widely recognized productions, garnering over twenty Dora nominations and awards in its twenty-six year history.

The Theatre Centre Milestones:

1980	Presented	Rhubarb! Festival, Buddies In Bad Time Theatre/Nightwood (Presented at The Theatre Centre from 1980-1985)
	Presented	A visit by Spalding Gray
1982	Presented	Happy Days & Theatre 2, Beckett (presented by Richard Rose & Necessary Angel)
1984	R&D	Aria of Sassumap Arna, Tomson Highway
1990	R&D	House, Daniel MacIvor
		Swahili Godot, Robin Fulford
1991	R&D	Never Swim Alone, Daniel MacIvor
		The Lorca Play, Daniel Brooks
1992	R&D	A Play About the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Alisa Palmer
	Presented	The Last Temptation of Christopher Robin, Michael O'Brien
1995	Under The Umbrella	Reading Hebron, Jason Sherman
		Still The Night, Teresa Tova
1996	Co-Pro	stockholme, Bryan James (Dora Nominated)
	Under The Umbrella	The Yoko Ono Project, Jean Yoon
1997	Under The Umbrella	White Mice, Darren O'Donnell
1998	Co-Pro	insomnia, Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia (Dora Award Winning Production)
1999	Present	2.0 BREATH(e), Steve Lucas, toured to London in 2004
	Produce	Armour, Learie McNicolls, (Dora Award Winning Production)
2001	Co-Pro	Woman As Landscape, Liz Snelling (with Carbone 14)
	Presenter	Inaugural Free Fall Festival

R&D program
R&D is the research and development phase of The Theatre Centre's new work program. Five Resident Companies receive up to three non-consecutive weeks per year in the space for up to two years, and administrative and artistic support throughout. This program is national in scope. The Theatre Centre is committed to producing the work that is developed by the program.

BANG!
Audiences pay what they can for an evening of low-tech cabaret. A BANG! may be a short reading from a play in development, a short theatrical dance, a visual installation piece, or a musical number. Anything goes. Artists present work in its infancy. A curator is chosen for each BANG! by the artistic director. There are four-six BANG!'s a year.