Yaga

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 125 minutes

She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, ...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By (artist) Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Adaptations
Duration: 90 minutes

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Solo Shows, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation
Casting: 1 f

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different ...

Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 8 f, 2 m

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Disability Theatre, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?

Grieving siblings Natalie and ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Family Life, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography, Death, Grief, and Loss
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world ...

Blackout

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

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 ...