Two towns collide on a single street. Kitchener and Waterloo – a nondescript Canada twin city. Waterloo is who you want to be. Kitchener is who you fear you really are. KITCHENER +WATERLOO is a rallying cry for all those who secretly battle with the place they are from, who had to leave in order to feel at home. A never-the-same-twice storytelling and uncompromising meditation on home, homecomings and who gets to live where.

Haley McGee creates theatre performances about strong, subversive, strange female characters. Through interviews, archival research and her own origin story, she has collected too many tales from her hometown — a place she’s always been embarrassed by but now wishes she wasn’t. 14 years since she left and never went back, KITCHENER + WATERLOO confronts Haley’s home story through a chance series of ugly-yet-loveable hometown portraits. Each story ends at a fork in the road. You decide where we go.

Part choose your own adventure, part personal divulgence, part true-crime indulgence, part living room pretzel nosh & gossip sash: KITCHENER +WATERLOO is a spontaneous, funny, shocking, tender take-down-send-up meditation on home, hometowns, homecomings and who gets to live where.

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