Peter Hinton, the new head of Ottawa’s National Arts Center English is planning a bold first season. He’s offering an all-Canadian program that “draws heavily on the work of small, independent theatre groups across the country and includes five world premieres. Gone are the familiar classics or the recent Broadway hits that are the foundation of subscription seasons in big theatres across North America. In their place, Hinton is daring Ottawa’s notoriously unadventuresome audiences to try something new and unknown.”