B Street Collaborative + Harbourfront Commission

An ambitious new immersive commission

Outside the March has been commissioned by B Street Collaborative in partnership with Harbourfront Centre to create a major new immersive production over the next three years. The as-yet-untitled project will be the spiritual successor to The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, OtM’s wildly successful phone-based pandemic production, and The Tape Escape, 2019’s escape room-fueled immersive takeover of the former Queen Video Bathurst location. Like those past productions, it will be created by OtM core team and associate artists alongside dynamic collaborations with guest artists.

“The majority of OtM’s flagship productions are playwright-driven new works or immersive takes on existing scripts. But Mundane Mysteries and Tape Escape represent another approach: form-busting, collectively-created projects devised and driven by the company itself. They’re two of the projects we talk about (and hear about from our audiences!) the most because they represent what OtM is best at: deeply collaborative, highly imaginative works with the audience’s experience as their beating heart. We’re honoured by the support of B Street Collaborative and Harbourfront Centre. Their investment is allowing us to prioritize making art that’s truest to our values.” – core project artist and OtM Creative Director Griffin McInnes.

Founded by arts supporter Heather Jessiman with artist Dylan Trowbridge as Creative Director, B Street has quickly established itself as a major hub for Toronto’s independent performing arts community through its spaces, artist development and incubation of new works. Harbourfront Centre is one of Toronto’s premiere centres for arts, culture, learning and recreation, with millions of visitors each year.

Photograph by Will Innes featuring core OtM artistic team members Lucy Coren, Sébastien Heins, Mitchell Cushman and Griffin McInnes.

“Outside the March brilliantly and continually reimagines how audiences and artists
interact—creating experiences that are visceral, playful and profound. We are thrilled to partner with a company that is so deeply aligned with our belief in collaboration, innovation and the transformative power of art. This commission embodies exactly the kind of artist-driven, audience-centred creation that B Street Collaborative exists to support."

B Street Collaborative’s Heather Jessiman and Dylan Trowbridge

Outside The March
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B Street Collaborative’s Heather Jessiman and Dylan Trowbridge

“Outside the March brilliantly and continually reimagines how audiences and artists interact—creating experiences that are visceral, playful and profound. We are thrilled to partner with a company that is so deeply aligned with our belief in collaboration, innovation and the transformative power of art. This commission embodies exactly the kind of artist-driven, audience-centred creation that B Street Collaborative exists to support."
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