Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Dating & Sex, Coming of Age
Casting: 8 f, 1 m, doubling
Duration: 115 minutes

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Mental Health, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Solo Shows, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Biography
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 65 minutes

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Digital Performance in Canada

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, (Im)migration, History, Musicals
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Black Playwrights
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Long Live the New Flesh

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Anthologies

In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. ...

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.

Jon, a star ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Class Differences, Adaptations
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...