This weekend, Bird On Stage Productions brings its critically acclaimed production of PIGEON! to YES Theatre’s Refettorio stage in downtown Sudbury for a two-night run, following a week-long engagement in Toronto.
Praised for its genre-bending style and emotional intensity, PIGEON! has been described by Our Theatre Voice as “an often hilarious and horrific cross between Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, and American Psycho, peppered with the darkness of Hitchcock and Batman.”
The play blends surrealist comedy, vintage horror, and echoes of old-school Yiddish theatre to tell the story of John, a deeply traumatized outsider spiralling into chaos as he searches for connection. It’s a darkly funny and unsettling exploration of loneliness, inherited trauma, and the strange things we build —and dest