Sequence (Second Edition)

By Arun Lakra
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Western Playwrights, Alberta, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Science & Scientists, Canadian Classics, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 80 hours

“Luck is like irony. Not everybody who thinks they got it, got it.”

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing ...

Take d Milk, Nah?

By Jivesh Parasram
Foreword by Tom Arthur Davis & Graham Isador
Subjects: Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Comedy
Duration: 85 hours

Jiv is “Canadian.” And “Indian.” And “Hindu.” And “West Indian.” “Trinidadian,” too. Or maybe he’s just colonized. He’s not the “white boy” he was teased as within his immigrant ...

Amaryllis & Little Witch

By Pascal Brullemans
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights
Duration: 105 hours

In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children ...

Acha Bacha

By Bilal Baig
Introduction by Kama La Mackerel
Subjects: Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Trans Playwrights
Duration: 80 hours

For years, Zaya has delicately balanced his relationship with his Muslim faith and queer identity by keeping his genderqueer lover and manipulative mother apart. But when his mother ends up in the hospital ...

Bears

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
Subjects: Award Winners, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Environmental Issues
Duration: 70 hours

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the ...

Bar Mitzvah Boy

By Mark Leiren-Young
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Award Winners, Jewish Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Comedy
Duration: 85 hours

Joey Brant needs to have a bar mitzvah immediately. Like, next Tuesday. Except he’s not thirteen, the usual age for the Jewish milestone. He’s in his sixties. A task he thinks he could quickly cross ...

Contemporary Monologues for Women

Edited by Trilby James
Series: The Good Audition Guides

In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices.

Playwrights featured in Contemporary ...