David James Brock

Theatre, Opera, Poetry, Film

Toronto Canada

David James Brock is a Canadian writer of opera, theatre, poetry, and film.
Author of poetry collections Everyone is CO2 and Ten-Headed Alien.
Co-creator of Breath Cycle, an opera for cystic fibrosis.

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Theatre/Opera (Toronto): A Million Billion Pieces


  • Young People's Theatre 165 Front Street East Toronto, ON, M5A 3Z4 Canada (map)

I am really excited to premiere A Million Billion Pieces at Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre this November. This piece is a play with opera, and gives me the opportunity to work with Gareth Williams again. It is a creative extension of the Breath Cycle collaboration which we began in 2013.

About the play

When a touch could be a lifeline – or lethal – two 16-year-olds dare to tempt fate. Pria and Theo are isolated by a rare disease that could prove deadly if they make contact. Craving connection, they progress from flirty DMs to a precarious encounter, each with their own reason to test what it is to live – and love – like other people.

A Million Billion Pieces

By David James Brock
Music by Gareth Williams
Directed by Philip Akin

IN THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE STUDIO NOV. 25-DEC. 13, 2019
RECOMMENDED FOR GRADES 8-12 | AGES 13 & UP
WORLD PREMIERE

For show time details click here.

Earlier Event: September 14
Vinyl Album Launch (Toronto): The Piano Lunaire: Harvest Moon