Theatre Junction is a bilingual multidisciplinary live art ensemble  based in Montreal.  Led by its co-artistic directors Mark Lawes and Raphaële Thiriet, the company brings together francophone and anglophone artists from varied cultural backgrounds and disciplines.  Together they explore themes that are at the intersection of their differences, constructing live performances that are composite forms of our time.  The interconnectivity between manufactured and natural environments, real and virtual worlds, are at the core of the artistic research of the company.  The research and writing of Mark Lawes and Raphaële Thiriet is derived from a system of improvisation and collective collaboration that searches inbetween disciplines for new forms of representation.  This mode of creation is at the 'junction' of contemporary dance, theatre, music, and visual art.

The name Junction reflects the idea of crossroads, of space located at an intersection, of a meeting place, for the arts as well as for identities. The name conveys the space between as a space for possibilities and for creation.

Theatre Junction makes its home in Tiohtiá:ke/Moonyang/Montréal, a traditional and unceded territory, which has long served as the homeland and site of meeting and exchange of Indigenous peoples, in particular the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) and Omàmiwininì (Algonquin) nations. 

CHAOSMOS is an immersive and poetic installation. This visual and acoustic cocoon forms a utopian space that originated during a conversation involving Raphaële Thiriet, Mark Lawes and the renowned visual artist and musician Malcolm Mooney, on the necessity of deconstructing power relations inherited through colonization. Inspired by the logic of biodiversity, this inviting curvilinear space welcomes us into the heart of suspended time, conducive to the sensorial experience of the organic and ever-evolving complexity of the world. The coexistence of movement, text, soundscape and song presents multiple portals and points of access to this singular interdisciplinary work.

The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and was supported by the English Language Arts Network funded by the Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers.  CHAOSMOS benefitted from a residency at Usine C

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Directed by Raphaële Thiriet with 15 adolescents from Montreal's cultural diversity, Theatre Junction’s La Serre Concorde is the French language world premiere of Governor General’s award winning playwright, Jordan Tannahill.  Concord Floral is a million-square foot greenhouse in a suburb of Montreal. Having been abandoned for years, it is seen as a scourge by concerned parents in the nearby neighborhoods. It is also a refuge for neighbourhood teens; a place of their own in which to throw parties, experiment, dream, dare and come of age. Concord Floral is, in part, an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century allegory, The Decameron, where ten teens seek refuge in an abandoned villa and weather the plague by telling each other stories, to keep each other alive. In this contemporary reinterpretation, ten youth flee to the greenhouse when a plague is visited upon their neighbourhood.

This project benefited from a residency at the Collège Français de Montréal, Théâtre aux Écuries, and the “Artiste à l’école program” of the CSSDM in partnership with the Paul Gérin-Lajoie Highschool.

Concord Floral was first produced in 2014 by Suburban Beast and presented by Why Not theatre at the Theatre Centre (Toronto, ON).  It was written by Jordan Tannahill and developed over a three-year period with Erin Brubacher, Cara Spooner and a group of teenagers from across the Greater Toronto Area.  The original production was created and directed by Erin Brubacher. Cara Spooner, and Jordan Tannahill.  Concord Floral is produced by permission of the Playwright, Translator, and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers).

The last two years Theatre Junction has been working on the development of the he Supernova Trilogy, a multidisciplinary and multi-media work composed of three independent modules.  Metaphorically, the trilogy follows the life cycle of a star.  The explosive impact of new technologies on consciousness and the erosion of the utopian promise of the American Dream, combine to create a future that has yet to be constructed, in which science and imagination collide.  Each module will consist of live performances and satellites, including short films, concerts, and installations.

The Supernova Trilogy had its world premiere in the frame of the Festival des Francophonies en Limousin in Limoges and was subsequently presented by the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux in October 2018.