Greystone Theatre
We present three to four plays a year as part of our Greystone Mainstage season, showcasing the work of our student actors and technicians, both onstage and behind the scenes. Whether classical or cutting-edge and contemporary, every season offers a diverse mix of plays chosen to challenge our students and to entrance our audiences: a matter that is as true today as it was in 1946, when Greystone Mainstage Productions premiered on campus at the U of S.
Greystone Theatre, one of the oldest theatres in the province, was started in 1946 by the first drama department in Canada and the Commonwealth. Check out ticket information and upcoming performance info below!
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Doctor Faustus and the Disco Inferno Cabaret
Curated by Ken MacKenzie
October 24th & 31st, 2025
The return of the wildly successful, student-created masterwork, Doctor Faustus and the Disco Inferno Cabaret. Started as an opportunity for students to perform self-generated work, this marks the 3rd iteration of this unpredictable and slightly chaotic evening of performance that includes, music, dance, drama, comedy and other unclassifiable spectacles.
Hamletmachine
By Heiner Müller
Directed by Deneh'Cho Thompson
November 19-29, 2025
In Müller's fragmented eight-page text, Shakespeare's masterpiece struggles to survive amidst the mounting rubble of literary and political history. Failed ideals and human disillusionment give way in Hamletmachine to the youth clamoring in reaction against the past in order to change the present. To break free of the continual cycle of violence within history the past is questioned and deconstructed.
Tranlsations
By Brian Friel
Directed by Fraser Stevens
February 10-14, 2026
Set in late August 1833, “Translations” unfolds at a hedge-school in Baile Beag, County Donegal. The play introduces a diverse group of students, from a semi-literate farmer to an elderly autodidact. Nearby, a detachment of Royal Engineers is tasked with mapping the area through the first Ordnance Survey. They must record local Gaelic place names and replace them with English equivalents. The action’s administrative nature transforms into a deeply personal issue. This collision of cultures brings forth far-reaching consequences that impact the community profoundly.
80th Anniversary Showcase
Directed by Skye Brandon
March 18-28, 2026
For 80 years, the University of Saskatchewan’s Drama Department has been at the heart of Canadian theatre—geographically, historically, and artistically. As the first university drama program in the Commonwealth, it has shaped generations of theatre artists, influencing both local and global performance landscapes. For our 80th anniversary, we will engage with this legacy and its evolving future through the creation of one-act plays that explore theatre in Saskatoon as a central node in a vast network of artistic creation.
