GZP Chronology 1984-2010

  • 2010 RIBBON – Pat Darbasie re-creates a shorter version of the play for a national women’s history conference in Vancouver.
  • 2010 THAT’S DANGER! – Don Bouzek directs the web video version of Dave Clarke’s play for the Alberta Workers’ Health Center.
  • 2009-10 EMBEDDED WITH BANKERS, WITH EYES WIDE OPEN – Don Bouzek collaborates with Banner Theatre on two shows touring in the UK commissioned b the National Union of Journalists and UNISON.
  • 2010 WEST INDIAN DIARY - Pat Darbasie’s play about West Indian immigrants to Edmonton is given a workshop in Toronto, with support from Obsidian Theatre and Factory Theatre Lab.
  • 2009 RIBBON – Pat Darbasie’s one woman show is remounted for the 100th anniversary of Amber Valley, Alberta.
  • 2008 GWG: PIECE BY PIECE – Maria Dunn works with Don Bouzek to create a Video Ballad about immigrant workers in Edmonton, premiered at the Royal Alberta Museum.
  • 2007 TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS – AD Don Bouzek develops a series of dramatic readings about the issue of temporary foreign workers in Alberta for a national conference.
  • 2007-2008 THE BROOKS PROJECT – AD Don Bouzek collaborates with members of The People’s Poets to develop a workshop which combines Popular Education and live hip hop performance, centered around the bitter strike at the Lakeside Packers plant in Brooks, Alberta.
  • 2005-2006 BURNING ISSUES, WILD GEESE - **AD Don Bouzek works as director with Banner Theatre, shows tour UK and GZP presents them in Alberta and Ontario.
  • 2005 RIBBON – Patricia Darbasie creates a one woman show about Black pioneers, co-produced with Studio Theatre and presented as part of their season.
  • 2005-2009 TROUBLEMAKERS – Maria Dunn’s musical history of Alberta labour tours Alberta and is invited to the Alberta Scene Festival in Ottawa.
  • 2004-2006 WORK PLAYS – Provincial tour of a play by Jane Heather in co-operation with the Alberta Workers Health Center.
  • 2003 MIGRANT VOICES – GZP tours a show created with Banner Theatre to Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Ft. Qu’Appelle, Brandon & Winnipeg.
  • 2002 GLOBALIZE RESISTANCE – The Canadian Labour Congress presents Jane Heather’s play as part of the G6 Billion conference in Calgary.
  • 2001 THERE FOR A REASON - ** GZP commissions and tours a play by Robert Clinton about health from an Alberta perspective.
  • 2000 FREE FOR ALL – GZP presents Banner Theatre from England in a play about health care.
  • 1999 1919 – GZP and Don Bouzek are awarded an AFA Community Artists in Residence grand to work with the Edmonton & District Labour Council, including creating a new show about the 1919 Edmonton general strike.
  • 1998 WORKERS’ PLAYTIME – the only Canadian company featured in a book about international theatres that work with Organized Labour.
  • 1997 The company Relocates to Edmonton.
  • 1997 FLIPPIN’ IN – Sally Han’s production of Anne Chislett’s play tours Ontario and parts of Manitoba.
  • 1996 RAG, TAG, AND BOBTAIL – Don Bouzek’s play kicks off the 125th Anniversary celebrations of the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto & York Region.
  • 1996SOLIDARITY SONGBOOK - GZP’s concert-theatre performance features Labour music from the early years of the twentieth century, based on George Hewison’s Solidarity Forever Young and featuring Rob Fortin and Susan Newman, Jim Gleason, with direction by Don Bouzek and Sue Spicer.
  • 1995 STOLEN LANDS – Tours Ontario in a production by Stephen Bush and Monique Mojica of plays by writers including Daniel David Moses, Djanet Sears, Judith Thompson, and Guillermo Verdecchia.
  • 1994 ALLOS and THE MILKY WAY – The first cross-cultural tour by the company to feature two shows in repertory.
  • 1992-1993 FAIR IS FAIR – Ontario tour of a Forum Theatre presentation about Employment Equity.
  • 1992-1994 HIJOS DEL MAIZ/PEOPLE OF THE CORN – Created in collaboration with artists from El Salvador, it tours Global Education Centres in Ontario.
  • 1992 THE OTONABEE RIVER CHRONICLES – GZP’s first community pageant involved 75 participants from Peterborough and Curve Lake Reserve.
  • 1991 THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH – The most extensive Labour tour ever undertaken, going to 42 centres throughout Ontario and also in Winnipeg.
  • 1990 HITTING HOME – The first play ever presented as an official agenda item at a Canadian Labour Congress National Convention.
  • 1986-90 THE FESSENDEN ANIMATION - A multi-media presentation about the inventor of radio, Reginald Fessenden opens the 1990 Mayworks Festival.
  • 1990 WHERE’S THE CARE? - A short Agit-Prop performance for OCHU, which plays a half dozen Ontario cities to highlight health care issues during the provincial election campaign.
  • 1988 THE FREE TRADE ZONE – Tours Ontario in Labour venues.
  • 1987-1989 IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MY HEART – Created with homeless people and tours first in Metro Toronto and then provincially in Ontario.
  • 1986 THE WORKING PEOPLE’S PICTURE SHOW – (co-produced with Company of Sirens who created it) – Developed a Labour provincial touring circuit.
  • 1985 GLOW BOYS – Multimedia performance by Catherine MacLeod about the nuclear industry workers, is presented in Kincardine and Port Elgin Ontario.
  • 1984 ST. GEORGE/THE DRAGON – First performances for Organized Labour at the Canadian Labour Congress School in Port Elgin, Ontario.