Upcoming Events
Musical Theatre Dance
Calling all musical theatre fans! This beginner-friendly class is for anyone looking to learn the basics of musical theatre dance!
TILT at Black Box Productions
Our award-winning creation TILT is coming to the Fredericton stages for the first time!
Finding Your Comedic Voice
Finding your Comedic Voice is a 6 week workshop for aspiring stand up comedians, monologists and anyone else who wants to say funny things to a group of people.
Big Gay Cabaret 2025 -Call For Artists
It’s back, and bigger and gayer than ever! We are seeking applications from 2SLGTBQIA+ artists to perform in next year’s Cabaret!
Performance 101
Join Solo Chicken duo Jean-Michel Cliche and Lisa Anne Ross for a fun, accessible four week theatre basics class!
Level 1 Improv Showcase (Date Changed!)
Join us in celebrating our newest cohort of Level 1 Improvisers!
Foundations of Movement
Join artist Sydney Hallett for eight weeks of movement and dance aimed at deepening mind-body connection and moving both intentionally and freely.
Improv Level 3 Showcase
Join us in celebrating our Level 3 improv grads as they tackle long-form improv!
Creative Lozenge
This workshop is designed to help you discover the tools you need to access your creative muscle when inspiration may be running low!
Fruit Machine Casting Call
Now accepting auditions for Fruit Machine from 2SLGBTQIA+ performers until September 29th!
Level 1 Improv
Embrace your impulses, sharpen your wit, and learn the ropes to performing on stage in this fun and lighthearted improv class for beginners!
Level 3 Improv
Put your skills to the test in this advanced improv course. Become a master storyteller as you and your cohort explore the boundless possibilities of long-form improv!
TILT at Fundy Fringe
A couple’s rocky domestic life takes a sudden turn when a shocking secret comes to light. What secret? You decide!
Stage Combat Class
A fun and physical introduction to unarmed stage combat with Jean-Michel Cliche
Spirit project junior summer camp
A camp for teens with and without intellectual and/or physical disabilities, Autism and/or dual diagnosis to flex their artistic muscles, make new friends, and celebrate the start of summer!
Improv For Teens Summer Camp
Jump into the world of improvisation in this fun and lighthearted summer camp for teens!
Embodiment Lab - Deadline for Applications
Solo Chicken is putting out a call for participants to take part in a free three-week movement lab focused on finding the joy in sexuality through movement.
Call for New Board Members Deadline
Solo Chicken invites expressions of interest to folks who identify as having an intellectual and/or physical disability, Autism, or dual diagnosis to join our board!
Level 2 Showcase
Join our Level 2 students as they tackle a collection of challenging improv games in their end of class showcase!
Contemporary Dance Class
A joyous dance class that invites you to dance, laugh and live with Artist Raúl Márquez Gaitán!
Level 2 Improv
Level up your improv skills with this focused intermediate course. Develop strong storytelling skills, create unique characters and scenes, and push your limits by exploring more complex of improv techniques!
The Big Gay Cabaret
An evening of loud, proud, queer joy as a form of resistance featuring theatre, dance, drag and more!
I AM HERE – POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE at CSAC
We all have a story to tell. An exhibition of portraits, poetry and quietly public postcards highlighting the humanity of participants at River Stone Recovery Centre.
Finding Your Comedic Voice Showcase
A showcase featuring the participants of our “Finding Your Comedic Voice” class!
Trailblazing - Plain Site Theatre Festival Workshop 2023
You've written a play, now what? In this workshop, Richie Wilcox talks through the various options of development you can take to continue evolving your work.
DEADLINE - BIG GAY CABARET ARTIST APPLICATIONS
Solo Chicken Productions, in partnership with the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, is seeking submissions from performers for their BIG GAY CABARET, an evening of queer joy and resistance through performance!
Physical Theatre Mixer
Solo Chicken Productions in partnership with Black Box Productions would like to invite our circle of physical theatre friends and friends we have yet to meet to join us for an afternoon of physical theatre play.
Inclusive Contemporary Community Dance Class
Join dance artist Raul Marquez Gaitan, for a dance class that explores new ways to express yourself through movement, rhythm and above all, FUN!
Call for Artists Deadline -Adaptable Movement Labs
Calling artists with physical disabilities/impairments, and/or chronic pain! Solo Chicken Productions is putting out a call for artists to take part in a six-week movement lab focused on developing an adaptable movement creation practice.
Improv Cabaret
Join us for an evening of improv comedy from a wide range of Solo Chicken Improvisers, including current students and alum!
Fruit Machine at Live Bait Theatre (Sackville, NB)
“Which is the greater treason? Treason to your country, or treason to your friends?”
The 1960s saw the Royal Canadian Mounted Police double down on their already aggressive campaign to eliminate homosexuals from the civil service. Driven by cold war induced paranoia of security risks the RCMP pointed their attention at the queer communities for their perceived “character weaknesses”. Taking historical text, real-life accounts, poetry, and movement Fruit Machine tells the story of hundreds through the bodies of four.
Fruit Machine, the debut creation from director Alex Rioux in collaboration with Solo Chicken Production, is both a haunting look at the harm paranoia-driven policy can do to vulnerable communities, and a memorial to the brave and powerful queer individuals who resisted an insidious, dehumanizing security campaign.
Tickets coming Soon!
Workshop: Physicalizing Text with Alex Rioux (Sackville)
In July & August of 2023, Solo Chicken Productions will be touring their ground-breaking physical theatre work Fruit Machine. Created and directed by artist Alex Rioux, with a primarily queer cast and crew, the production uses movement, projection, and historical text to interpret and investigate the questionable practices of the RCMP and Canadian Military that targeted the 2SLGBTQIA+ community from the 50’s through to the 90’s.
As part of the tour, Solo Chicken Productions is offering FREE physical theatre workshops for any interested folks who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+. The workshops aim to give participants an introduction to physical theatre and help build excitement around the art of telling your own story through theatre.
The Workshop: Physicalizing Text with Alex Rioux
Peek behind the curtain at the creation of Fruit Machine as workshop instructor and director of Fruit Machine Alex Rioux (they/them) takes participants through some of the devising techniques used by the creative team of Fruit Machine to develop the show. Using a short line of dialogue as a prompt, participants will be taught basic physical theatre principles and explore the vast range of ways they can use movement to physicalize text and create a dynamic and exciting piece of movement theatre.
This is an introductory workshop, so no prior physical theatre or theatre experience is necessary. This workshop is ONLY open to members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
ABOUT ALEX RIOUX
Alex Rioux is an emerging non-binary theatre artist, improvisor, and educator currently based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Their work focuses on using physical theatre to enhance traditional narratives to create rich and unique theatre experiences.
Note: Workshop participants will be receive a discounted ticket price ($10) for the August 3nd performance of Fruit Machine.