On Saint-Laurent, in a building striking enough to earn its architect a Prix d'Excellence from the Ordre des architectes du Québec, Espace GO has been one of Montreal's most distinctive theatrical voices since its roots as the Théâtre Expérimental des Femmes in 1979.

The name change came in 1994: GO, that little word borrowed from English that signals pure action, the cue that sets everything in motion on a stage. The feminist DNA never left.

The house remains dedicated to the imaginative worlds of women artists, staging work that grapples with how theatre can reinvent itself alongside the society around it. The building itself, a $5-million complex inaugurated in 1995, was designed to meet the demands of contemporary writing with new technologies, new media, new ways of making theatre. A place, as they put it, always in motion.