Cardboard Planets is a playwriting challenge, part of the Montreal FRINGE Festival’s After-Dark program, which offered the possibility of realization to its participants. Theatricians Ella Williams and Scarlet Fountain facilitate the process under the company name Off-Stage Montreal.

A list of poetic actions:

1. Double knotting your shoes, joining the fellowship of people who double knot their shoes like you do, and for a moment becoming one in the doing.

Oh god, someone I know is approaching me. A former classmate had me trapped at an intersection, the kind of acquaintance you're friendly with but never know what you should say. This would normally be tolerable, but I'd been high since my celebratory wake-n-bake at 4:20 AM, and the brownies I took at 4:20 PM were just starting to kick in. Come on, focus. My bloodshot gaze started burning a hole in their forehead.

The Montreal FRINGE Festival Corporation was founded by Kris Kieren and Nick Morra, and incorporated in 1991. In 2000, the company’s name was changed to the MainLine Theatre, allowing for year-round productions. Most importantly, MainLine’s venue, situated above Segal’s grocery store at St. Laurent and Duluth, opened in 2005 as a centre for the city’s English theatre community.