Through the Bamboo

By Andrea Mapili & Byron Abalos
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—8–10, Death, Grief&Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, By Age—11–14
Casting: 7 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi. In ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15–18, Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Death, Grief&Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Theatre of War, 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 ...

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 ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Romance, Puppets & Puppetry, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

Welcome to “The New Now,” a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret ...

Long Live the New Flesh

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Anthologies

In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. ...

Black Boys

By Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 m

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 male experience. ...

Ravage of Life

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

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Illustrated by Sam Hudecki
Subjects: Women Writers, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Anthologies, Feminist Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 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 ...

Secret Life of a Mother

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