top of page

2025 Productions

Mennonite Metamorphosis: How to become a secular Mennonite in 500 years or less

Love So Far Poster - 1200x675.PNG

Mennonite Metamorphosis: A Mesmerizing Memoir


BirdsEye Productions is thrilled to announce the upcoming production of “Mennonite Metamorphosis: How to become a secular Mennonite in 500 years or less.” This amusing production explores the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic events of one woman’s life who leaves her Mennonite upbringing in search of her authentic self. Banman captivates.

Mennonite Metamorphosis is a cleverly crafted seven step program on how to become secular. Each step includes anecdotes from Banman’s life illustrating her journey through the trials and tribulations of growing up in an evangelical Mennonite home with a mother whose own refugee experiences have a lasting effect.

“Banman’s storytelling is highly personal,” writes Haley Sarfield in the Kingston Theatre Alliance on Aug 4, 2023. ‘Yet also hits on many broader truths that will resonate with anyone who has fought with their upbringing, endured shame-soaked love, or found themselves having a breakdown in a staff meeting.”


Content warnings: 

Self-harm and suicide, Religious Trauma

Venue:

Art Not Shame, 119 Wyndham St N

August 8, 2025

1:30 a.m.

August 8, 2025

10:30 p.m.

August 9, 2025

8:00 p.m.

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • X

Land Acknowledgement

The Guelph Fringe Festival will be performed on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation of the Anishinaabek Peoples. We recognize this gathering place where we create and perform theatre is home to many past, present, and future First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Our acknowledgement of the land is our declaration of our collective responsibility to this place and its peoples’ histories, rights, and presence. The Guelph Fringe team supports and adds our collective voice to the CALLS TO ACTION by the Truth and Reconciliation Committee on Indian Residential Schools (and other identified sites of trauma) with our commitment to never forget, to hold governments and colonial forces to account, and to seek accountability and healing for injustice.

© 2025 by Guelph Fringe Festival

bottom of page