[2][3] Founded by poet, playwright and director Adam Seelig in New York City in 2002, and based in Toronto since 2005, the company performs provocative takes on international plays.
[4][5] One Little Goat's Artistic Director, Adam Seelig, outlines key elements of the company's aesthetic in an essay for the Capilano Review.
In the essay, Seelig also traces the influences of Sophocles, Zeami, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, and others on One Little Goat's dramatic approach.
The three-person play centred around feelings of jealousy involves a man and a woman who move to the middle of nowhere to be alone together, but grow anxious that "someone is going to come".
[12] Ritter, Dene, Voss premiered from September 23 – October 10, 2010 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York.
It was written by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Seelig, and translated from the German by Kenneth Northcott and Peter Jansen[13] Like the First Time premiered from October 28 – November 13, 2011 at the Walmer Centre Theatre in Toronto.
It combines Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry with the antics of Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug.
On February 7, 2010, Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth of the Ontario Provincial Police interviewed Colonel Russell Williams about his possible connection to multiple crimes, including two rape murders.
A mostly verbatim adaptation of the police transcript, performed by two female actors and a drummer, Smyth/Williams confronts the attitudes and norms that enable violence against women, while also challenging the conditions that support war.
An online petition, claiming that One Little Goat Theatre Company was sensationalizing violence against women, eventually garnered over two thousand signatures calling for the show's cancellation,[27][28] and the National Post published an Op-ed denouncing the production ten days before opening.