Digital Performance in Canada

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Family Life, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, 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 happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Comedy
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, ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: Musicals, (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, History
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Secret Life of a Mother

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

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Disability Theatre, Mental Health, Deaf Theatre, Environmental Issues, Women Writers, Anthologies, Political Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Nonfiction / Essays, Feminist 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, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Anthologies, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 9 f | 2 f, 2 m | 1 f, 4 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 ...

Voices of a Generation

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

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 ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: Theatre of War, History, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers
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 ...