Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)

By Michaela Washburn, Joelle Peters, and Carrie Costello
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 3 f

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

By The Collective Encounter
With Jill Carter
Subjects: Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Political Theatre, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Theatre Direction & Production, History, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Nonfiction / Essays

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, ...

Everything I Couldn't Tell You

By Jeff D'Hondt
Subjects: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Science & Scientists
Casting: 3 f

Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan’s injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. ...

Freedom: A Mixtape

Edited by Marcel Stewart
With Suitcase in Point
Subjects: Mental Health, History, Anthologies, Verbatim Theatre

Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and ...

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: Death, Grief & Loss, Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Women Writers
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. ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, Family, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Environmental Issues
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 ...

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. ...

Queen Goneril

By Erin Shields
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Women Writers, Adaptations
Casting: 4 f, 7 m

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born ...