Spycraft

Nov 19, 2025

Spycraft

A Yarn or Two Arts Collective

Date: November 19, 2025, 8:00 p.m.

Location: AEG Liebherr Auditorium, Oakville Centre for Performing Arts, 130 Navy Street, Oakville

When a middle-aged Canadian woman, who is also a hidden Jew, joins the British Special Operations Executive during WWII as a spy in occupied France, her male colleague is skeptical she’ll make a difference because she’s a woman – and an ‘old’ one at that. However, she defies expectations and challenges the chauvinism and ageism of the times by using her invisibility as an asset, and using a classically female craft to pass coded intelligence about the Germans to the Allies: knitting.

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