Company Description:

Tarragon is primarily a playwright's theatre. Its mandate is to
develop, encourage and produce new work; to attract or train artists
and technicians to interpret new work; and to inform and develop an
audience for new work. Tarragon's mandate also deems it important to
produce new work from all parts of this country---from the west,
from the east, and from Quebec---as a complement to the new work
which is created here; and also, on occasion, to revive a
significant Canadian work from our dramatic literature both to
provide a context for new creation, and to introduce these received
texts to a new audience. In every instance, we emphasize high
production standards, both to entertain our audience and to
stimulate other new writers. Intensive, hands-on dramaturgy is a
priority at Tarragon, for writers in the Playwrights Unit,
playwrights-in-residence, playwrights whose work is being produced,
and for playwrights who submit unsolicited scripts from across
the country. Finally, it is part of Tarragon's mandate to use all
its resources, programs and facilities inclusively---for instance,
the booking of The Extra Space, the availability of the Tarragon
Studio as a creative developmental "lab," and the programming of
the Spring Arts Fair---to promote and encourage other groups of
artists or individual artists who are developing new work, in new
forms, in new processes, for new audiences.