Images (left to right): Colm Feore as King Lear, Stratford Festival (photo by David Hou); top – Tawiah M’Carthy in Obaaberima at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre (photo by Jeremy Mimnagh); bottom – Volcano Theatre’s The Four Horsemen Project (photo by John Lauener); top – Lisa Ryder in Helen Lawrence at Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre (photo by David Cooper); bottom – Marc Labrèche in Ex Machina’s Needles and Opium (photo by Nicola Frank Vachon); top – Hawksley Workman in The God That Comes, produced by Halifax’s 2b theatre company (photo by Trudie Lee); bottom – Frankenstein by Edmonton’s Catalyst Theatre (photo courtesy Catalyst); Carly Street in Company, produced by Toronto’s Theatre 20 (photo by Riyad Mustapha).