Psycho 6

Run: June 10 to 23rd 2022 at the Montreal Arts Intercultural (MAI)

Written and Performed by: Oliver Koomsatira

Directed by: Liz Valdez

Creative Team: Assistant Director: Alessandra Tom, Production Manager: Masha Bashmakova, Stage Manager: Elyse Quesnel, Technical Director: James Douglas, Sound Design: Christine ML Lee, Set/Lighting: Zoe Roux, Costume: Nalo Soyini Bruce.

Psycho 6 was developed in Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks program. Psycho 6 follows the journey of K, a young man who’s been in and out of foster homes and youth centres since the age of 9. His broken home, fiery temper, and financial destitution have all led him down a path of increasingly more dangerous criminal activities. The play talks about a subject that is rarely addressed in the theatre community: youth gangs, pimping, and the prison system. It takes a deep look into how specific socio-economic factors create a context in which marginalised people of colour are vulnerable to delinquency, out of sheer necessity.

Photos by Jeremy Cabrera, Zoe Roux, and Josef Tulane