The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Women Writers, Comedy, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a ...

Yaga

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 125 minutes

She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, ...

Post-Democracy

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

Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Foreword by Mike Payette
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, Women Writers, Black Playwrights
Casting: 8 f, 2 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Siblings, Disability Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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 ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, (Im)migration, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
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 ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, 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 ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: Rural Settings, Political Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

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

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’ ...