Voices of a Generation

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

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: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, By Age 15–18, Coming of Age
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: Family Life, Siblings, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, 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, ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: Musicals, (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, History
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Secret Life of a Mother

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

Digital Performance in Canada

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology ...

Do This In Memory of Me

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

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15–18, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Award Winners, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Long Live the New Flesh

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Anthologies

In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. ...

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.

Jon, a star ...