The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Political Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then ...

Espejos: Clean

By Christine Quintana
Adapted by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Translated by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Subjects: Scenes & Monologues, Translations, Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f

The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, 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, ...

First Métis Man of Odesa

By Matthew MacKenzie & Mariya Khomutova
Subjects: Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Romance, Family Life, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Award Winners, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Matt and Masha hit it off during a theatre research trip in Ukraine. At first they seem like opposites: Masha loves the sea, Matt loves mountains. Masha is Ukrainian, Matt is Métis. But the passionate ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Romance, Death, Grief & Loss, Adaptations, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre
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 ...

Power Moves

Edited by Seika Boye & MJ Thompson
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Dance
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves ...

Women of the Fur Trade, Second Edition

By Frances Koncan
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, History, Feminist Theatre, Comedy
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

Finalist for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English and Winner of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Best New Play Contest

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the ...

Peace Country

By Pedro Chamale
Subjects: Political Theatre, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

A new political party has swept into office, promising big changes to curb the impending climate crisis—changes that could put the nail in the coffin for a tiny carbon-economy town in the heart of Northern ...

Niizh

By Joelle Peters
Subjects: Rural Settings, Comedy, Women Writers, Romance, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

It’s summertime on the rez, the frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, ...

Happy Anniversary

By Vanessa Cardoso Whelan
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Marriage & Divorce, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, (Im)migration, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Dance
Casting:

It’s Carlos and Marta’s twelfth wedding anniversary, yet while Marta yearns to tango, Carlos insists on the comfort of routine. As their story unfolds through a mosaic of memories, we see what began ...