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a front company & Pickles Theatre Co. Co-Produce Feminist Noir Thriller in a Bar Basement

A Girl in School Uniform (Walks Into a Bar) opens April 27 in Toronto — and it’s not playing it safe.

Toronto, ON — April 27–May 1, 2025
Two of Toronto’s most exciting indie companies - A Front Company and Pickles Theatre Co. - are teaming up to co-produce A Girl in School Uniform (Walks Into a Bar), a feminist noir thriller staged site-specifically in the basement of a working bar in Toronto’s west end.

Written by acclaimed UK playwright Lulu Raczka, this fast, funny, and haunting two-hander cuts straight to the nerve. Disappearance. Surveillance. Power. Gendered violence. In a dystopian city plagued by rolling blackouts, two women are forced into an unlikely confrontation. What begins as suspicion spirals into something stranger — and darker.

“This is the kind of work I needed to see when I was 20,” says director-producer Robert Morrison.
“It’s about survival, complicity, and the ways we disappear from each other. But more than that - it’s about the power of telling stories. The act of sharing a story, especially in the dark, can be connective, political, and even life-saving.”

This production is site-specific, immediate, and made by a scrappy team of young, artists — staged inches from the audience, with nowhere to hide. No stage. No proscenium. Just two women, a blackout, and the sense that someone — or something — is listening.

DETAILS

Show: A Girl in School Uniform (Walks Into a Bar)
Written by: Lulu Raczka
Directed by: Robert Morrison
Produced by: A Front Company + Pickles Theatre Co.
Starring: Saskia Muller & Andrea Perez
Venue: Wenona Lodge Basement – 1069 Bloor St. W, Toronto
Dates: April 27 – May 1, 2025
Times: Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:00 PM
Tickets: $10 / $15 in advance | $20 at the door
Tickets launch April 4 at: afrontcompany.com
Content Advisory: Themes of gender-based violence, surveillance, and disappearance

Why Now?

The show opens one day before Canadians head to the polls. The timing wasn’t planned - but it couldn’t be more fitting.
Girl in School Uniform doesn’t offer answers - it asks the right questions. Who gets listened to? Who gets lost? And what does it mean to be safe?

It’s also a play about the radical power of storytelling - how two people sharing truth in a blackout can build connection, resistance, and even hope.

The Team

• Directed by: Robert Morrison
  
  

• Produced by: Alex Grozdanis
  
  

• Assistant Directed/SM: Julianna Monte-Angheloni
  
  

• Sound & Lighting Design: Chris-Liz
  
  

• Costume Design: Paulina Tapia
  
  

• Performed by: Saskia Muller & Andrea Perez
  
  

About A Front Company

Founded in 2021, A Front Company is a cross-Canadian indie theatre collective creating bold, politically-charged work for young adults - and anyone young at heart. The company centers the voices and experiences of young people, making theatre that speaks directly to their world, their questions, and their urgency.

Past projects include:

• ECHO – A multi-city touring production that premiered at The Theatre Centre in 2022 and played Buddies in Bad Times as part of the 2023 Next Stage Festival
  
  

• MORNING AFTER – A smash hit at Toronto Fringe 2023, exploring consent, memory, and aftermath
  
  

• POOL PARTY – A raucous, genre-bending live art party and platform for emerging creators
  
  

Media Inquiries / Review Tickets:
Email: a.front.company.theatre@gmail.com
Instagram: @a.front.company | @picklestheatreco

“It’s about survival, complicity, and the ways we disappear from each other… but more than that — it’s about the power of telling stories.”
— Robert Morrison

Tickets drop April 4 — let’s sell this basement out.