Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, History

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It’s just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Environmental Issues, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point.

Set in the aftermath of the disaster ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Hannah Moscovitch & Alisa Palmer
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Adaptations, Romance, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

Winter of 88

By Mohammad Yaghoubi
Translated by Nazanin Malekan & Mohammad Yaghoubi
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre, Mental Health, Award Winners, Death, Grief, and Loss, Translations, Theatre of War
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them.

Already ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Translations, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

Eraser

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

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Death, Grief, and Loss, Translations
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: Mental Health, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Solo Shows, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...