The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers
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 ...

From the Ashes

Edited by Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Solo Shows, Anthologies, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Black Playwrights

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
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 ...

The Master Plan

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Political Theatre, History, 3 f, 3 m, 1 actor, Comedy, Adaptations

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city ...

21 Black Futures

Created by Obsidian Theatre
Subjects: Comedy, Solo Shows, Super Short Shows, Disability Theatre, Award Winners, Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Mental Health, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Scenes & Monologues

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. ...

Queen Goneril

By Erin Shields
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Adaptations
Casting: 4 f, 7 m

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Environmental Issues, Family Life, Siblings, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Family, Environment
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

Black Boys

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

Retreating to Re-Treat

By The Collective Encounter
With Jill Carter
Subjects: Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Political Theatre, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, History, Theatre Direction & Production, Nonfiction / Essays

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the woods—a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they ...

New

By Pamela Mala Sinha
Subjects:
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

It’s 1970s Winnipeg—a time of revolution and radical possibilities—and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim ...