Post-Democracy

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

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Family Life, Theatre of War, Ontario Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Science & Scientists, (Im)migration, Translations, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 130 minutes

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 ...

Power Moves

Edited by Seika Boye & MJ Thompson
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Dance, Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Puppets & Puppetry, Ontario Playwrights, Romance
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 ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Rural Settings
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 97 minutes

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. ...

Reasonable Doubt

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

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choinière
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Translations
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

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 ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Large Cast, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f
Duration: 105 minutes

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian ...