Electric Company is dedicated to the creation of groundbreaking artistic experiences.
Your support helps us bring original, transformative and innovative work to the stage. Give today to help shape the next Electric Company creation. 100% of all donations go towards art making – always.
Do you love theatre? Exceptional, world-class theatre? Like our passionate, creative founders, are you drawn into the magic of a powerful story? Maybe you enjoy how this wonderful art form can ignite your imagination and appeal to all of your senses? Whatever your reasons – we are so glad you’re here as a passionate supporter of Electric Company! You are a vital part of the magic and passion that have made this a world-renowned theatre company for almost 30 years!
It takes an enormous amount of energy and money to put on our spectacular shows. Unfortunately, the financial cost is simply not covered by ticket sales. We depend on donations from theatre lovers like you to ensure these shows are the very best they can be.
Will you consider supporting our work today?
Your gift ensures our next show, Carmen Aguirre’s beautifully imagined world of Fire Never Dies: The TIna Modotti Project will be spectacular. Your donation will help cover the multitude of costs associated with creating this world class show such as set, costume and production design, actors, our exceptional backstage team, and so much more.
Electric Company Theatre is about people coming together to create and experience live art. It is not a company that is about the individuals in it, but about the bringing together of world-class artists – on and off the stage – with audiences like you to create a truly world-class theatrical experience.
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Want a more intimate look into Electric Company?
Join our Monthly Donor Program The Illuminairies and receive the revived Electroscope +/- with exclusive content about and from the Core Artists!
What is the Electroscope? In the waning years of the 20th century, the engineers at Electric Company Theatre devised a fancy piece of technology to share our schematic diagrams, laboratory data sets, and our patent pending secrets with people like you: our generous donors. It was a way to spark your imagination and for us to celebrate how your support keeps the current flowing and replenishes our electrolytes: it was dubbed The Electroscope and was a sort of members “zine”, designed on an Apple IIe and delivered by homing pigeons directly into the hands of the Electric Company membership and the occasional unsuspecting bystander when the pigeons got tired. Despite the circuitry’s propensity to generate puns (a bug or a feature??), the device was soon celebrated as a successful transmitter as well as being lauded as a decorative and self-renewing drink coaster.
Whatever happened to this award-wining* publication? Some say its disappearance is the result of a failed experiment with cryogenics. Others say that the motherboard powering the enterprise was the one and only casualty of Y2K. While the mystery of its disappearance may forever be unsolved, it’s almost certain that none will ever fully understand its reappearance. But be that as it may, here it is: The Electroscope +/-: a revamped, entirely digital, heavily encrypted, and occasionally animated hypertextual zine that may indulge your nostalgia for the year 2004!
*not a typo: while the publication won no awards, it proved useful when wining and dining jurors of various awards bodies, providing a source of fun-facts and dazzling images to get out of awkward silences between the main course and the desert**.
**not a typo: it was only ever really used in arid climates.
ELECTROSCOPE ARCHIVE
See previous editions of Electric Company Theatre’s zine
1998 – Vol 1
1998 – Vol 2
1999 – Vol 3
2000 – Vol 4
2001 – Vol 5
2002 – Vol 6
2003 – Vol 7
2004 – Vol 8
2006 – Vol 9
2006 – Vol 9, Issue 2
2008 – Vol 11
Electric Company Theatre is a registered Canadian charity BN 872054168 RR0001. All donations above $25 are eligible for a tax receipts.