The Hagstone Collective is a new local theatre company formed by frequent collaborators Paige Francoeur and Katelyn Polischuk. Formed in December of 2021, the company was originally designed to house co-written classical theatre adaptations, and has since evolved into a de facto producing umbrella for personal work as well.

The Hagstone Collective takes basic frameworks that are in the cultural zeitgeist— (whether they are folk/fairy tales, or merely tropes/archetypes/genres), and then works to interrogate and cannibalize those existing narratives, using them as a launchpad to form innovative and fresh stories that speak to the here-and-now. The stories we seek to tell are deeply thematically rooted in the lived experience of the collaborators on a given project and have so far spanned the range of tackling topics of misogyny, neurodivergence, queerness, and gender identity/expression.

Hagstone operates on the belief that an audience should be encouraged to engage with stories that sincerely challenge them and offer new perspectives that may be otherwise overlooked, in an environment that works to prioritize the support and safety of both audience and artists.