One of Canada’s most influential alternative theatres, Theatre Passe Muraille (“theatre beyond walls”) was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard, who started the company out of Rochdale College.
Its intention was create a distinctly Canadian voice in theatre. It was conceived with the notion that theatre should transcend real estate and that plays can be made and staged anywhere—in barns, in auction rings, in churches, bars, basements, lofts, even in streetcars.