The Plague (Outliers Theatre Collective) - November 17, 2026 @ 7:30pm (Preview)

Outliers Theatre Collective presents ...

THE PLAGUE
After La Peste by Albert Camus
Adapted by Neil Bartlett

Canadian Premiere

November 17-29, 2026
Tickets $25-35+

Synopsis: The Plague is Albert Camus's story of living through a time of crisis and fighting back against despair. First published in 1947, the novel was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist "plague" that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus's classic for our own dangerous times. Using just five actors, his frank and gripping new stage version uses Camus's original words to put chaos under the microscope and to find hope in the power of our common humanity. 

Featuring: Hume Baugh (Cottard), Gary Brennan (Grand), Natalia Bushnik (Tarrou), Sean Jacklin (Rambert), Asha Vijayasingham (Dr Rieux)

Directed and Produced by: Tom McHale and Alessandro Simari

Stage Manager: Jenna Hsu

Lighting Designer: Elijah Bell

Estimated Run Time is 90 minutes, no intermission.

Light concessions and merchandise will be sold on site.

Content Notice: Sustained depictions of epidemic illness, death, quarrantine, and collective grief, including discussion of suicide, mass fatalities, medical triage, social breakdown, and the deaths of animals. Staging incorporates the sound of gunshots. The play explores themes of authoritarianism, isolation, separation, fear, xenophobia, and state violence. Please take care while attending.

This is a Canadian Actors Equity Association production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.

THE PLAGUE was originally commissioned and produced by the Arcola Theatre, London and was first performed on April 5, 2017. Presented by special arrangement with special arrangement with The Agency (London) Ltd. - email : info@theagency.co.uk and Gallimard. THE PLAGUE based on La peste by Albert Camus © Gallimard