Buy Nothing Day is an international challenge to our oversaturated, unsustainable consumer culture. For the past five years, Optative Theatrical Laboratories has challenged this glut with guerilla theatre culture jams at places like McDonald’s, Starbucks and more recently Chartwells. Mass consumption wouldn’t be possible without the banks and this year, the greed of those institutions […]
Before the recent Canadian federal election, Stephen Harper visited Longueil, not far from Montreal, OTL and others were there to meet him, including Melanie Kal, who files this report I, Melanie, performed in a jam for the first time in my life wearing an Official Man’s outfit. needless to say – this included his face […]
With this year’s Buy Nothing Day only four days away, here’s a look back at The Chartwells Tour, a theatrical jam performed by OTL and Uberculture Concordia last BND to challenge the monopolizing University food service provider controlled by Compass Group Canada. Chartwells not only runs all the cafeterias at Concordia and McGill Universities, as […]
Welcome to the official blog of Optative Theatrical Laboratories. OTL was founded at the University of Calgary in 1999 and soon moved to Montreal where it has been performing guerilla theatre culture-jams and activist plays ever since. In this space, you will hear about our latest projects, reports from previous theatrical interventions such as our […]
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