Ruby Slippers Theatre present The Advance Theatre Festival: Yo No Hice Nada by Mariel Calvo

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Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada present The Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage.
Staged Readings of five new works written and directed by equity deserving IBPOC artists.

Three Latina teenagers sit in separate police interrogation rooms, recounting the events of a community Asado gone horribly wrong. We never hear the officers’ questions—only the girls’ overlapping, contradictory, and increasingly theatrical versions of the truth. As Lily, Maria, and Vanessa relive the night in question, the play slips fluidly between interrogation and memory, revealing how storytelling shifts when pride, shame, friendship, and survival are on the line.
Lily is bold, glamorous, and unapologetically outspoken; Maria is sharp, observant, and determined to maintain control; Vanessa, Lily’s cousin visiting for the summer, appears innocent despite being more perceptive than anyone realizes. Together, the girls navigate the pressures of growing up as young Latinas in Canada—balancing cultural expectations, religion, sexuality, gossip, and the ever-present weight of community scrutiny.
Fast-paced and deeply heartfelt, YO NO HICE NADA explores the contradictions of hyphenated identity and the intimacy of female friendship. As the truth slowly emerges, what begins as a comedy of conflicting memories transforms into a story of loyalty, rage, and the lengths young women will go to protect one another.

About the Playwright
Mariel Calvo (she/her) is an Argentine-Canadian writer and director based on the unceded territories of the Squamish (Skxwú7mesh), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), and Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilwətaɁɬ) Nations. She received her BAH in Drama from Queen’s University, where she developed a passion for devised and community-engaged theatre. Her artistic practice blends comedy, heightened theatricality, and ensemble-driven processes to explore identity, memory, gender, and belonging. Centering the voices of young women, her work celebrates the humour, resilience, and complexity of diasporic communities while challenging expectations of who gets to take up space on Canadian stages.
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