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PLS is now seeking new groups to participate in its June 2025 invitational production of the medieval York plays!   We've already recruited a solid collective made up of teams who have worked with PLS medieval play productions (or comparable play productions) before -- now, WE ARE SEEKING SEVEN NEW GROUPS to join us as contributing … Continue reading Spread the word! Seeking new participants in the PLS York Plays June 2025 invitational production

Get ready to indulge in a gluttonous and raunchy medieval experience like no other! Poculi Ludique Societas and the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Medieval World Drama Working Group, in conjunction with the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, are proud to present: VERY GLUTTONOUS, VERY RAUNCHY, VERY LATE MEDIEVAL: A Staged Reading of Six New … Continue reading Gluttony and Ribaldry: Six Side-splittingly Scurrilous and Scatological Plays are about to hit the Toronto Stage for Two Performances Only!

Our Medieval World Drama Working Group has been meeting monthly during the academic year since 2019. For more information about MWDWG, visit the group's webpage. All friends of PLS are invited to participate in the readings! If you're interested in joining, please RSVP to info@plspls.ca for Zoom details (online) or to request printed copies of … Continue reading March 22, 2023: Medieval World Drama Working Group

Along with our co-sponsors and the project producers, we're delighted to offer our PLS friends free tickets to this weekend's live Zoom performances of director Jenna McKellips' Mary Magdalene Project.  The Mary Magdalene Project is a modernized version of the Digby play of the same name. The production will take place this weekend with performances … Continue reading Free Tickets for Mary Magdalene Project

PLS is still here! It's been an unusual nine months, to say the least. We are now having our Annual General Meeting at long last. All members, donors, production participants or other people interested in PLS are invited to attend. Date: Thursday, December 17 at 2pm Location: Online using the Zoom videoconferencing platform Here is … Continue reading Invitation: PLS’s 2020 Annual General Meeting

Dear supporters of PLS, We are writing to let you know that, like so many of our colleagues who have been postponing or cancelling their shows due to COVID-19, PLS has also had to make the decision to postpone our show Lusty Juventus to a later date. As much as we enjoyed our rehearsals and … Continue reading A COVID-19 Message

A Tudor Moral Interlude by R. Wever Lusty Juventus is a short mid-16th century Moral Interlude of the “Prodigal Son” type, telling the story of a young man tempted by the joys of the flesh. It was written during the brief reign of Henry VIII’s son Edward VI for a small troupe of travelling players, … Continue reading Upcoming Performance: Lusty Juventus

We are seeking actors for this non-Union production with paid honorarium. Lusty Juventus A short Tudor Interlude by R. Wever Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS), Toronto’s renowned medieval and renaissance players, is a non-profit, non-Equity theatre company affiliated with the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. PLS is dedicated to … Continue reading Audition Notice: Lusty Juventus

Welcome to the twelfth century, where everyone is noble, wise and good. Except these guys... Poculi Ludique Societas & Pneuma Ensemble present: Problematic Men Babio, an elegiac comedy Samson dux fortissime, a lai/sequence/planctus   About In this performance Pneuma Ensemble takes the moral high ground and introduces two twelfth century "negative exemplars"—characters who showed audiences … Continue reading Pneuma Ensemble’s ‘Problematic Men’

You—yes, you!—are invited to PLS's Annual General Meeting. We will be discussing our 2018–2019 season and planning for the future. When: Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 2pmWhere: Rm 103, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park(across from the ROM) See you there! The Dutch Courtesan, March 2019