Our New Works Festival is returning March 20-29 with new work by playwrights and emerging directors. We’re excited to present full productions of All Bottled Up by Drama Queenz, How To Get Away With A Murder Mystery by Marshlight’s Youth Company, and more play readings music.
2026 Schedule
All events held at 3 Fairfield Rd. Sackville, NB
Most events are Pay What You Can except All Bottled Up
March 19
Creating With Cardboard
Workshop with Sue Rose, 2-4pm
March 20&21
All Bottled Up
by Drama Queenz and
Magali Charron and Vincent Cacchione
7pm on the 20th & 21st, Matinee 2pm on the 21st
Tickets $15, available at marshlight.ca/my-calendar
March 23
In This Day And Time
Workshopping a new play by Margaret Tusz King
Interested in becoming involved with the power of community theatre? Come to this interactive workshop to help develop a local play!
7-9pm FREE
A Festival By The Marsh event supported by Marshlight Theatre
March 25 – 2 Events beginning 7:30pm
A Few Moments with Miss Popjoy
Miss Popjoy takes over Mr. McCall’s body to discuss Topics of Relevance – Improv with possible audience engagement
Written and Performed by Todd McCall
Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream
Songs & Stories from The Hand Man by James Hand
March 26 – 2 Events beginning 7:30pm
Doors open at 7:10
Birdbrain
A new play by Patrick McWade
A 10-minute play featuring a man who hasn’t accepted that he is a Crow. Other birds accept him as he is. Then he meets his granddaughters.
The Room
A new play by Alora Simon
March 27-28
How To Get Away With A Murder Mystery
Written by Don Zolidis Directed by Eva Lucas
A fun comedy performed by the Marshlight Youth Company
7:30pm on the 27th & 28th, Matinee 2pm on the 28th
Tickets are Pay What You Can at the door
Doors open at 7:10
Five mysterious color-coded guests. A mansion. A murder. Can the killer get away with it? And how will the sleuths bring them to justice? A handy guide to escaping the law when one happens to be a prime suspect in a mysterious murder.
March 29 – 3 Events
PARC U-Compete – 2-4pm
A student playwriting competition for high school and post-secondary students in Atlantic Canada organized by the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. The competition offers $1000 to winners from each Atlantic province and an additional $1000 for an overall winner. Winning scripts will be read at Marshlight Theatre’s New Works Festival.
Then 2 Play Readings beginning at 7pm
Doors open at 6:40
Trifles
A dramatic reading Directed by Judith Cane
Written by Susan Glaspell, Trifles is a one-act feminist play about the investigation of John Wright’s murder. While men (the sheriff and attorney) mockingly dismiss domestic evidence, two women (Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters) uncover clues—the “trifles”—revealing the truth.
Beam Me Up Stanley
A dramatic reading of a new play Written and Directed by Jenny Siddall
Two friends who are heavy into all things space decide this weekend is the last they will camp out waiting for aliens to land….aliens land that weekend and once in a lifetime encounter happens.
