Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, History, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Verbatim Theatre, Musicals, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Death, Grief, and Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration, Ontario Playwrights, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 80 minutes

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 ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

By David Paquet
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Comedy, Translations, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 1 m, doubling | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 145 minutes

With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Death, Grief, and Loss, Women Writers, Disability Theatre
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 ...

Half-Cracked

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

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, 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 ...

Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, (Im)migration, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Deaf and Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Death, Grief, and Loss
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

Ravage of Life

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

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings, Comedy, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 1 m, chorus

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point.

Set in the aftermath of the disaster ...

Power Moves

Edited by Seika Boye & MJ Thompson
Subjects: Essays, Dance, Nonfiction / Essays
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 ...