Interdependent Magic

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

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 ...

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

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15 to 18, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
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 ...

Voices of a Generation

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

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Dating & Sex, Coming of Age, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 8f, 1m, 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 happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old ...

Too Good to be True

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

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 ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Rural Settings, Feminist Theatre, Political Theatre
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, Feminist Theatre, 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 ...

The Empire

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