Our Mission

To tell and create stories as unique as the landscape of Wo’qn, Mi’kma’ki.

Ship’s Company Theatre seeks to fulfill its mission by following our Strategic Plan’s Four Pillars.

Bridging community: To build and sustain better community connections.

An invitation to everyone: To co-create a more equitable and inclusive community.

More than a building, a presence: To work so we are prepared to house and protect the physical future of The Ship.

A home for hidden stories: To build and maintain a space where the untold and hidden stories of Atlantic Canadians can flourish.

Our Mandate

Ship's Company Theatre develops, produces and presents unique, high-quality theatre, music, and events for all. Based in Taqamiku'jk, Mi’kmaki, we are dedicated to providing professional programming with a focus on innovation, inclusion and cultural leadership. We are passionate about highlighting artists, stories and communities anchored in the Atlantic region.

About Ship's Company Theatre

Mary Vingoe and Michael Fuller started Ship’s Company in 1984 when they decided to stage the show You’ll Be In Her Arms By Midnight and Other Parrsboro Stories aboard the retired ferry vessel, the M.V. Kipawo, for a week. Thus began the improbable success story of a professional theatre company being born in the rural nook of the Bay of Fundy in Cumberland County within the village of Parrsboro.

In 2004, after twenty years under a tent on the ship, Ship’s Company Theatre opened the doors to a new two-million dollar facility. And here we are in 2023, 39 years later, with a venue that was built around the retired and permanently landlocked Kipawo and features the original ship as the front deck entrance to what Ship’s Company is today.

Ship’s Company production season is a jam-packed three-month variety of events which includes its mainstage programming, collaborations, presentations, a Picnic Play Series, our Shipwright Sessions, and a concert series highlighting Atlantic Canadian musicians throughout the summer. The season finishes with the Youth Series which routinely has hundreds of students from local schools in attendance.