Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land)&Antigone: ?

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15 to 18, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 5 m, doubling | 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus
Duration: 140 minutes

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Death, Grief&Loss, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Mental Health, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Environmental Issues, Women Writers, Deaf Theatre, Disability Theatre, Comedy, Political Theatre, Non

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Dating&Sex, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Coming of Age, Women Writers
Casting: 8f, 1m, doubling

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 happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage&Divorce, Quebec Playwrights, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Adaptations, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers

Voices of a Generation collects three Canadian plays that speak to millennials’ complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Mental Health, Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Family Life, Siblings, Super Short Shows, Ontario Playwrights
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, and ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Rural Settings, Feminist Theatre, Political Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

It’s Wasp’s destiny to be impregnated by a swarm of hornets called the Angels on their twenty-first birthday, but they aren’t going down without a fight. Their plan? A bottle of Coke, an abandoned ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Death, Grief&Loss
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 ...

Secret Life of a Mother

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

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief&Loss, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life
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, ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Illustrated by Sam Hudecki
Subjects: Women Writers, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Anthologies, Feminist Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 1 f, 4 m
Duration: 360 minutes

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom. The story ...