OTL Blog

On Monday night over 50 masked protesters descended on City Hall for a Masquerade Ball protest – the Bal Masqué. Organized by an ad hoc collective known as Le Gros Bon Sens, the masked demonstration aimed to challenge the anti-mask bylaw the City of Montreal is attempting to pass as part of its larger “Public […]

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 […]