Each semester, the DAN School produces a theatrical work called 'The Majors.’ All Queen's students are allowed to audition to be part of the cast or apply to be part of the crew. Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester; information can be found on the Auditions page in the Current Students section. The Drama Majors has a long history at Queen’s, and the list of past productions can be found below.
The 2024 Fall Major will be The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian and directed by Craig Walker
The 2025 Winter Major will be Love and Information by Caryl Churchill and directed by Michael Wheeler
Love and Information is a fast-paced play about contemporary life and the internet. It contains over 50 scenes with over 100 different characters. The production will contain approximately 25 performers who will on average play four roles each. The play is written to allow actors of many different genders, ages and ethnicities to play any of these parts. In addition to this unique structure, we will also be adding a layer of complexity that will allow audience data to power the order of some of the scenes, while enabling the audience and designers to collaborate in ways that connect to the types of interactivity the internet empowers. There will also be some interstitial, ensemble-based material the production will generate.
Love and Information runs at the Power Corporation Studio Theatre in the Isabel Bader Center of the Performing Arts from March 5th - 16th, 2025. See our events page for more details.
Past Productions
| Year | Production |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Paradise Lost by Erin Shields, Dir. Parry |
| 2023 |
The Last Night at the Cabaret Solitaire |
| 2023 |
Everybody |
| 2022 |
Pirates of Penzance |
| 2022 | Not Wanted on the Voyage Dir. Walker |
| 2021 | No Major |
| 2021 | No Major |
| 2020 | No Major |
| 2020 | Mr. Burns Anne Washburn Dir. Jacobson |
| 2019 | The Drowsy Chaperone Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin, and Greg Morrison Dir. Fort |
| 2019 | The Wolves Sarah DeLappe Dir. Bazinet |
| 2018 | Birds Jennifer Wise, after Aristophanes Dir. Walker |
| 2018 | A Little Night Music Stephen Sondheim Dir. Fort |
| 2017 | Concord Floral Jordan Tannahill Dir. Wanless |
| 2017 | The End of the World Club Kat Sandler Dir. Sandler |
| 2016 | The Servant of Two Masters Carlos Goldoni Dir. Wanless |
| 2016 | Macbeth William Shakespeare Dir. Renders |
| Year | Production |
|---|---|
| 2015 | House of Martin Guerre Leslie Arden Dir. Fort |
| 2015 | If We Were Birds Erin Shields Dir. Renders |
| 2014 | Orbit Jennifer Wise Dir. Walker |
| 2014 | Lilies Michel Marc Bouchard Dir. Renyk |
| 2013 | The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weiss Dir. Fort |
| 2013 | Blood Relations Sharon Pollock Dir. Wanless |
| 2012 | Counter Service & Lives of the Great Waitresses Michel Tremblay (Counter Service )/Nina Shengold (Lives of the Great Waitresses) Dir. Walker |
| 2012 | Penelope Waits Anthology Dir. Renders |
| 2011 | Dust Johnathan Garfinkel and Chris Morris Dir. Morris |
| 2011 | Candide Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler Dir. Fort |
| 2010 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare Dr. Wanless |
| 2010 | Our Town Thornton Wilder Dir. Walker |
| 2009 | Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Dir. Fisher |
| 2009 | The Seagull Anton Chekhov Dir. Renders |
| 2008 | Drums in the Night Bertolt Brecht Dir. Walker |