Reasonable Doubt

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

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’ ...

The Enchanted Loom

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

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 ...

Duecentomila

By kai fig taddei
Foreword by Paula Wing
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, By Age — 15–18, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, (Im)migration, Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Casting: 4 roles

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Foreword by Quincy Armorer
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Biography, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choinière
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Translations, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

Three generations of a family argue
over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame
someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment
can both ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Foreword by Angus Ferguson
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

Is My Microphone On?

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Environmental Issues, Environment, Political Theatre

In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Romance, Ontario Playwrights, Puppets & Puppetry
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 and ...