Spycraft (2025)
Produced by
A Yarn or Two Arts Collective and The Theatre Centre
Playwrights: Kirk Dunn and Claire Ross Dunn
Director: Richard Greenblatt
Venue
The Theatre Centre – BMO Incubator
Run
November 22nd, 2025 – November 28th, 2025
Synopsis
It’s modern day, and Cleo and her adult daughter Sophie receive recently declassified information about Cleo’s grandmother from the Imperial War Museum in London. Turns out, Audette was not just a sweet old lady who knitted socks—she also worked for Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a spy in Occupied France. The debrief of Audette’s espionage activities answers some questions but leaves many more. Cleo and Sophie’s present dovetails with Audette’s past in 1942 as a middle-aged woman and hidden Jew whose male colleague at the SOE is skeptical she’ll make a difference because she’s a woman and an ‘old’ one at that. But she challenges the chauvinism and ageism of the time by using her invisibility to employ knitting—a classically female craft—to pass coded intelligence to the Allies. After learning the secret story of Audette’s unique and brazen Nazi takedown, Cleo and Sophie—a new mother herself—grapple with the sudden discovery they’re Jewish, especially when Antisemitism is on the rise, and spreading disinformation about the Holocaust has become commonplace. Will they hide their identity as Audette did, or will they embrace it, and all that it means? (theatrecentre.org)
Cast
| Diane Flacks | Cleo / Audette |
| Blair Williams | Simon |
| Charlotte Dennis | Sophie / June / Liesl |
| Devin Lee | Gerald / Hans |
Creative Team
| Kirk Dunn | Playwright |
| Claire Ross Dunn | Playwright |
| Richard Greenblatt | Director |
| Nick Blais | Set Designer |
| Nick Blais | Costume Designer |
| Nick Blais | Lighting Designer |
| Kirk Dunn | Knitted Costume Designer |
| Kirk Dunn | Prop Designer |
| Heidi Chan | Sound Designer |
| Emilie Beaudry Levesque | Assistant Designer |
| Heidi Chan | Original Music |
| Richard Greenblatt | Dramaturge |
| Casey Hudecki | Fight Director |
| Beverley Cooper | Dramaturge |
Production
| Ada Aguilar | Stage Manager |
| Rhett Costin | Technical Director |
| Jo de Boer | Carpenter |
| Susan Heslop | Production Assistant |
| Tara McLellan | Poster Graphic Designer, TM Designs |
| Emilie Beaudry Levesque | Head of Wardrobe |
| Jane Gooderham | Accent and Dialect Coach |
| Holly Boyne | Knitting Squad |
| Mark Cayen | Knitting Squad |
| Cheryl De Ville | Knitting Squad |
| Claire Ross Dunn | Knitting Squad |
| Kirk Dunn | Knitting Squad |
| Phyllis Goodfellow | Knitting Squad |
| Emily Mooney | Knitting Squad |
| Lynne Pascoe | Knitting Squad |
| Sandy Takeda | Knitting Squad |
| Keri Williams | Knitting Squad |
| Lynne Pascoe | Traditional Knitwear Consultant |
| Kirk Dunn | Producer |
