Barn Visit

A Show by The Drama Ladies Arts Collective

Writer/Director: Carmen Korpi Set/Prop Design: Cailie MacLeod Set Builder: Sam Broadbent Costumes: Carmen Korpi and Alice Newman-Gougeon Makeup: Alice Newman-Gougeon Actors TBC

Night after night, Grace visits Adrian in the old barn at the back of the field. The two of them plan to run away together one day. Soon. Assuming she doesn’t stop coming first. And assuming he can get out of there at all.

Genesis of the Show:

The piece is an expansion on a section of a novel I've been working on for about one year. I have played with iterations of this idea for a little longer than that in various prose formats and eventually decided that what it needed was the feeling of sitting in the room, etc. which changed my direction with it from prose to theatre.

About the Artists

Carmen Korpi

Carmen Korpi (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar based in Ottawa, Ontario. She is a co-founder of The Drama Ladies Arts Collective. Recent credits include Prop Design for Odyssey Theatre’s Mirandolina and The Girl With No Hands; Background Design for Odyssey’s World of Theatre Masks; and contributing to the costume team for TotoToo’s The Spongebob Musical. Carmen worked for several years with the uOttawa Opera as a Stage Manager on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Cendrillion, Hansel and Gretel, Orpheus Project, Venus & Adonis and Make ‘em Laugh: Comic Scenes. Across these productions she also took on a multitude of other creative and production roles including Assistant Direction, Props, Costumes, Lighting, and Sound. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Music and Theatre at the University of Ottawa. Her research work explores the process of adaptation as a site of feminist meaning in theatre, musicals, and opera. She holds a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Lethbridge. The Drama Ladies Arts Collective was founded in 2026 by Cailie MacLeod, Carmen Korpi, and Alice Newman-Gougeon. Coming from unique artistic backgrounds and meeting through opera, our collective celebrates works written by or about women and non-binary artists through performance. Our aim is to both reinvent classic works and develop new works that center women's choices through a feminist lens. We work across mediums in theatre, opera, music, and more.

Instagram: @carmen.korpi | @the.drama.ladies

Premiering October 28-31, 2026.