Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, By Age — 15–18, Environmental Issues, Family
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

21 Black Futures

Created by Obsidian Theatre
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Comedy, Mental Health, Disability Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Scenes & Monologues, Award Winners

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. ...

Queen Goneril

By Erin Shields
Subjects: Adaptations, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 4 f, 7 m

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born ...

The Master Plan

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Political Theatre, Adaptations, Comedy, History
Casting: 3 f, 3 m, 1 actor

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been ...

From the Ashes

Edited by Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Anthologies, Women Writers

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy ...

The Jungle

By Anthony MacMahon & Thomas McKechnie
Subjects: Family Life, (Im)migration, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Can Jack and Veronyka ever get ahead? In this all-too-relatable love story in a city suffocating under late-stage capitalism, a young couple is pitted against odd after odd in a way that isn’t about ...

among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Rural Settings, Biography
Casting: 2 m

1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Comedy, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...