Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2012
Dismissal of Ken Gass and boycott calls
Gass was fired as artistic director, leading playwrights including George F. Walker and Judith Thompson to withdraw work and prompting public boycott calls from several prominent Canadian cultural figures.
1977
Controversy over Winter Offensive
Ken Gass's play Winter Offensive attracted criticism for what audiences and commentators regarded as gratuitous sex and violence in its depiction of Nazi leadership. Gass subsequently left the theatre's leadership.