Welcome to Spontaneous Theatre
Spontaneous Theatre does TWO things really well:
1. We create live theatrical productions that audiences want to see – often multiple times. Our shows have played across Canada, in select US cities including off-Broadway, the UK, and the Edinburgh Fringe.
2. We design custom corporate workshops for businesses who recognize the value of creativity, empathy, and play.
2025-2026 Season Lineup
GOBLIN:MACBETH
Three Goblins come across the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and decide to co-op a theatre and attempt to stage the Bard’s bloodiest tragedy.
October 21st – November 7th 2026: Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
BLIND DATE
GOBLIN: CHRISTMAS CAROL
GOBLIN:PYGMALION
The brilliant minds behind the smash-hit, Murder-on-the-Lake, return to the Shaw Festival with a showcase of Shavian shenanigans that will upset the applecart of everything you thought you knew about social class, the power of language, and Eliza Doolittle. The internationally acclaimed, Spontaneous Theatre, would like to introduce you to their alter-egos: Wug, Kragva, and Moog – three theatre-obsessed Goblins with an insatiable appetite for human literature, and an endless confusion about theatre etiquette. Having already dismantled Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Dickens, Canada’s most notorious Goblins are about to descend on The Shaw, seize control of our stages, and pepper Pygmalion with spontaneity and chaos.
June 16th – October 10th 2027: Shaw Festival – Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Previous Productions:
BLIND DATE
A sexy French clown goes on a Blind Date with a different man, pulled from the audience, every night. WARNING: improv, naughty clowning, strong language, hilarity.
UNDERCOVER
AN UNDISCOVERED SHAKESPEARE
LEGEND HAS IT
GOBLIN:OEDIPUS
Determined to delve deeper into the Dionysian degeneracy of the human race, three Goblins dissect the dithyrambic to offer up a cautionary tale of patricide, incest, and eye-gouging comedy.
GOBLIN:MACBETH
Three Goblins come across the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and decide to co-op a theatre and attempt to stage the Bard’s bloodiest tragedy.
More on Spontaneous Theatricals:
The hallmark of our work is an immediate, real-time connection with our audience. Our number one value is ‘taking care of the audience and making sure they have a nice time’ – whether this happens on stage, or in the seats of the theatre.
Many of our productions invite one willing audience member to join us on stage as the ‘star of the show’.
We are perhaps best known for the smash-hit, Blind Date, which has been touring for over 15 years, and has had close to 2000 performances.
In 2022 we created Goblin:Macbeth which was an instant success, playing two sold-out runs in Calgary, produced by The Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth Productions. The Goblins then went on to be presented by Bard on the Beach in Vancouver, selling out the entire run and extension week before opening, and then playing to packed houses at The Stratford Festival of Canada.
Previous Productions:
BLIND DATE
A sexy French clown goes on a Blind Date with a different man, pulled from the audience, every night. WARNING: improv, naughty clowning, strong language, hilarity.
UNDERCOVER
AN UNDISCOVERED SHAKESPEARE
LEGEND HAS IT
GOBLIN:OEDIPUS
Determined to delve deeper into the Dionysian degeneracy of the human race, three Goblins dissect the dithyrambic to offer up a cautionary tale of patricide, incest, and eye-gouging comedy.
GOBLIN:MACBETH
Three Goblins come across the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and decide to co-op a theatre and attempt to stage the Bard’s bloodiest tragedy.
More on Spontaneous Theatricals:
The hallmark of our work is an immediate, real-time connection with our audience. Our number one value is ‘taking care of the audience and making sure they have a nice time’ – whether this happens on stage, or in the seats of the theatre.
Many of our productions invite one willing audience member to join us on stage as the ‘star of the show’.
We are perhaps best known for the smash-hit, Blind Date, which has been touring for over 15 years, and has had close to 2000 performances.
In 2022 we created Goblin:Macbeth which was an instant success, playing two sold-out runs in Calgary, produced by The Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth Productions. The Goblins then went on to be presented by Bard on the Beach in Vancouver, selling out the entire run and extension week before opening, and then playing to packed houses at The Stratford Festival of Canada.