This article was written by Oseremen Irete Like many businesses, local theatre company Theatre Outré has been grappling with how best to restart in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for the group, reopening is about a lot more than just selling tickets. Founded in 2012, Theatre Outré is the brainchild of artistic director Jay Whitehead. The company has a queer mandate and is “a leading outlet for alternative queer theater in Alberta.” “We define Queer in a very broad way” said Whitehead who is also a professor in the University of Lethbridge’s Dramatic Arts program. “Queer might be very literally the LGBTQ+ community or Queer might be odd,…



