The Martian and the Mound
This Fall 2025, in partnership with Theatre Projects Manitoba and The CandleWick Players, One Trunk Theatre will premiere The Martian and the Mound a multi-year theatrical project developed through our rural arts outreach program, Talking Roots, and as part of TPM’s Live Art Trade Route, created in collaboration with citizens of Southern Manitoba, specifically Neubergthal, Altona and Morden. Performed by a Southern Manitoba cast of actors.
The Martian and The Mound is a time-bending, prairie-rooted theatrical romp co-created by dozens of Southern Manitoba citizens and artists from One Trunk Theatre as part of Theatre Projects Manitoba's Live Art Trade Route. Debuting this fall in Neubergthal, Morden and Winnipeg's Gas Station Arts Centre, the play is performed by Morden’s CandleWick Players accompanied by a multimedia artistic team devised of both Winnipeg and rural artists. The Martian and the Mound follows Dr. Phoenix Albright, an archaeologist from Mars, as they investigate a mysterious “pull” beneath a Manitoba mound. Guided by ghosts, memories, and extinct animals, Albright travels through pivotal moments in the region’s past—from the tallgrass prairie to the future’s last sunset. This play blends myth, memory, and local voices, asking: in the eyes of history what makes a moment worth remembering?