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By Jenn Stephenson & Mariah Horner
Illustrated by Jeff McGilton
Subjects: Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Nonfiction / Essays, Essays

From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Hortons’s “Roll Up the Rim to Win” to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

Edited by Monique Mojica & Lindsay Lachance
Subjects: Anthologies, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Dance, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Metis, Environmental Issues

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume III is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Verbatim Theatre, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

cockroach (曱甴)

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Shakespeare, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Adaptations
Casting: 3 roles m/nb

You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest as he contends with his legacy. In their ...

The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Disability Theatre, Dance, Deaf Theatre, Musicals
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

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 ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

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. ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

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

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, ...

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 ...