21 Black Futures

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

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. ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Environmental Issues, By Age — 15–18, Environment, Family Life, Siblings
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: Political Theatre, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Nonfiction / Essays, History, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Theatre Studies, Theatre Direction & Production, History & Criticism

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, ...

Ravage of Life

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

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 ...

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Horror, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

This is Beyond

Edited by Evan Tsitsias & Bilal Baig
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Coming of Age, Political Theatre, Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre

In this rapid moment of expansion in queer theatre, when everything is exposed, interrogated, and investigated, This is Beyond is a time capsule of where we are now and a map for where we might go next. ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

Edited by Monique Mojica & Lindsay Lachance
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, First Nations, Anthologies, Environmental Issues, Dance, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

Fall On Your Knees

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