The Huns

by Michael Ross Albert

Directed by Lindsay Van Norman

Played November 14 -November 22nd 2025 at MLC Studio

A PERSON CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH BEFORE THEY BECOME A BARBARIAN.

★★★★★ “This is the sharpest, high-energy office comedy … that also exposes the dehumanizing effect of tech and modern work.” - Stage Door

★★★★★ “An outstanding production with acute insight into the modern workplace.” - NOW Magazine

“A small miracle of a play.” - Intermission Magazine

The Huns is a menacing new workplace comedy about minor revolutions and modern-day barbarians by Canadian playwright Michael Ross Albert.

The morning after a break-in at a tech company, three co-workers assemble for a conference call to discuss the burglary. What starts as a civilised, professional meeting swiftly devolves into a brutal showdown that puts everyone’s careers, and their hopes for future happiness, in jeopardy.

The Huns is written by Michael Ross Albert, a Toronto based playwright described by the Toronto Star as “one of Toronto’s most exciting playwrights”. Michael Ross Albert is a Dora Award-nominated writer whose work has been staged across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The Huns premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival at the Crowsnest Guloien Theatre in 2019.

Staged in a midtown office space for an intimate audience of 25, The Huns featured actors Samantha Gorjanc*, Bradley Marco, and Kiara Melendez.

L to R : Kiara Marie Melendez, Samantha Gorjanc*, and Bradley Marco in a scene from *The Huns*.

From the Playwright:

“I was in office jobs, and I wanted to write something that was set around a conference table that highlighted the absurdity and also the agony and ecstasy of this environment. Charting a dance of passive-aggression, of people that know each other very intimately as co-workers, but ultimately are strangers to one another.
There’s a running theme of barbarians invading; the idea being that we seem to be at the height of civilization, like the Roman Empire [laughs] which was torn apart by these invading barbaric forces. The Huns. The question being whether or not it’s these people on the outside, the very obvious burglar who’s come in and pillaged the office, or if it’s these so-called civilized people that create this society that are in fact the more barbaric of the bunch.”
- Michael Ross Albert
Excerpted from an interview with Kelly Bedard of My Entertainment World.