Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, By Age 15–18, Coming of Age
Casting: 8f, 1m, doubling
Duration: 115 minutes

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 65 minutes

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

Interdependent Magic

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

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 ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Subjects: Political Theatre, Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 1 f, 4 m | 9 f | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 360 minutes

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.

The story ...

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15 to 18, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 5 m, doubling | 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus
Duration: 140 minutes

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation collects three Canadian plays that speak to millennials’ complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: LGBT/Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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, ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: Women Writers, History, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m (1 f adult, 1 m adult, 2 f kid, 2 m kid)
Duration: 120 minutes

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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, ...