Ravage of Life

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

Black Boys

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

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Family Life, Theatre of War, Ontario Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Science & Scientists, (Im)migration, Translations, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 130 minutes

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Power Moves

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

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
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 ...