Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Bullying, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, (Im)migration, Disability Theatre
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

Power Moves

Edited by Seika Boye & MJ Thompson
Subjects: Dance, Nonfiction / 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 ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

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, ...

Ravage of Life

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

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, ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Family Life, Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Adaptations, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

Espejos: Clean

By Christine Quintana
Adapted by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Translated by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Subjects: Scenes & Monologues, Death, Grief, & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Translations
Casting: 2 f

The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

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

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

PLAY

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

From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton’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 ...

cockroach (曱甴)

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

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
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 ...