Experience Sylvan Lake like never before! This immersive theatre experience takes place downtown where storytellers lead the audience on the ‘trail’ to each surprise theatre location, sharing stories along the way. The journey around downtown lasts approximately 2 hours and showcases comedies, dramas, entertaining stories, and amusing history about the town. Thirty theatre artists contributing as playwrights, storytellers, historians, performers, and theatre directors, along with organizers and crew, will spend August creating this unique audience adventure in preparation for the September premiere.

Site-responsive theatre

Plays are written specifically for what might happen in the shops, businesses, and services where they take place. Actors take on various roles - a server in a cafe busily wiping tables, a customer sitting by the window staring admiringly at the server. In each location, one never knows what might happen - a dramatic scene, a comic twist, or a budding romance! As each fifteen-minute play wraps up, a storyteller guides the audience through town to the next pop-up experience.

The Downtown businesses providing theatre space for Theatre Trail 2025 are

Cobbs Clothing

Sweet Home on the Lake

Sun of a Beach

Sylvan Lake Legion   

We respectfully acknowledge that Sylvan Lake is situated on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis Peoples. We extend our appreciation for the opportunity to create, tell stories, perform and build inclusive community on this territory.