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Twin Sues ()

Produced by

Bird on Stage Productions

Playwright: Garrett M. Ryan
Director: Robert Leitner

Venue

The Assembly Theatre

Run

June 10th, 2026 – June 14th, 2026

Synopsis

In the middle of a fictional American-Canadian war, the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie have been annexed and forced back together under a single rule. The border is gone. The system remains.

At the centre of it all: two women. Same name. Same past. Very different present.

Sue Johnson and Sue Jackson, once inseparable, known as the “Twin Sues”, now stand on opposite sides of something they no longer fully understand, sharing control of a checkpoint on a newly nationalized bridge. What used to divide them has disappeared. What still binds them… is harder to escape.

What begins as routine slips, slowly and quietly, into something else. Power lingers. Roles calcify. And the question of who belongs, where, and to what, refuses to go away.

Told through a darkly comic, documentary-style lens, The Twin Sues is sharp, unsettling, and unexpectedly human. It’s about borders, but also about friendship, identity, and the systems we inherit long after they’ve stopped making sense.

Dr. Strangelove meets Corner Gas, with the absurdity of The Death of Stalin. (tixtree.com)


Cast

Tipelo Hildebrand Sue Johnson
Katelyn Doyle Sue Jackson

Creative Team

Garrett M. Ryan Playwright
Robert Leitner Director
Madeleine Gagnon Set Designer
Madeleine Gagnon Costume Designer
Madeleine Gagnon Prop Designer
Robert Leitner Lighting Designer
Garrett M. Ryan Sound Designer
Bunya Muchaeva Assistant Set Designer
Bunya Muchaeva Assistant Prop Designer

Production

Robert Leitner Lighting Operator
Garrett M. Ryan Sound Operator
Bunya Muchaeva Production Support