Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Bullying, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, (Im)migration, Disability Theatre
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Disability Theatre, Death, Grief, and Loss, Dance, Deaf Theatre, Musicals
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

21 Black Futures

Created by Obsidian Theatre
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Comedy, Mental Health, Disability Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Scenes & Monologues, Award Winners

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Disability Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?

Grieving siblings Natalie and ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Environmental Issues, Comedy, Anthologies, Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers, Political Theatre, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

Kill Me Now

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Family Life, Disability Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

When Joey enters puberty, his father Jake finds himself in a morally ambiguous position. Joey is severely disabled, but he still has the same sexual desires as any seventeen-year-old boy, only he can’t ...

The Thrill

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Women Writers, Disability Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock ...

The Secret Mask

By Rick Chafe
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

This heartwarming and often hilarious play tells the story of Ernie and George, an estranged father and son who are reunited when a debilitating stroke leaves Ernie with a speech disorder and memory loss. ...

Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 3 m
Duration: 115 hours

A thirty-five-year-old man with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, meets a pregnant young woman in crisis, and the two form a lasting friendship. A story about people finding the nerve to take responsibility, ...