Heritage Building in Prime Location
(Altbau in Zentraler Lage)

* currently in development * 

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Presented by storm&stress and 1s1 Theatre as part of the 2026 SummerWorks Performance Festival August 12 & 15 at

Theatre Pass Muraille

Through ASL, spoken English and physical storytelling, this housing-market drama and ghost story explores the urban housing crisis and the politics of communication. Join neighbours Zoey, Trisha, and the ghosts of their dilapidated building, as they struggle to reclaim their home. Set in a historic building targeted for luxury redevelopment, Heritage Building in Prime Location follows the last remaining tenants as they resist a profit-driven landlord determined to displace them. As unexpected connections emerge through shared sensory experience, the building itself becomes a site of resistance. Centring questions of language, power, displacement and coexistence, the work examines what it means to remain, communicate and survive amid social and architectural gentrification. Disruptive and at times disorienting, this multi-perspective work is not simply watched—it is felt, as the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to blur.​