The Drowning Girls and Comrades

By Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Anthologies, Biography, History, Women Writers, Award Winners
Casting: 2 m | 3 f

The Drowning Girls

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless ...

Design and Scenography

Edited by Natalie Rewa
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, Theatre Studies, Technical Skills, Stagecraft & Scenography
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

"In this volume several broad areas of concern may be discerned. A main one is the kinds of understanding and modes of collaboration between creative artists…. Another is, of course, the exploration ...

Theatre Histories

Edited by Alan Filewod
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, History
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:The Toronto Lyceum: A Study of Early Canadian Theatre in Miniature by Richard Plant (1976)Infinite Variety or a Canadian "National" Theatre: Roly Young and the Toronto Civic Theatre Association, ...

Love and Relasianships Volume 2

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino
Preface by Marjorie Chan
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies

The second volume in this groundbreaking collection: a series of plays written by Asians, for Asians… and for Canada.

Love and Relasianships Volume 1

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino
Preface by R.A. Shiomi
Subjects: Anthologies, Asian Canadian Playwrights

This anthology is a definitive record of a theatrical movement, a movement that reflects a multiplicity of styles and genres, joined together by the singular fact that they are a series of plays written ...

The Shakespeare's Mine

Edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Anthologies, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare

Claiming the right to the language of Shakespeare and the power that it represents in our culture, this collection of Anglophone Canadian adaptations manages to talk back to that authority in some surprising ...

Triple Play: Three Plays by Norm Foster

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks

Jenny's House of JoyJenny runs the best little house of ill repute in her corner of the old Wild West. But when a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just ...

Seesaw

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Bullying, Class Differences, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, ...

A Nanking Winter

By Marjorie Chan
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 2 m+

Marjorie Chan's gripping narrative intertwines the past and the present, transporting the reader between Irene and a small group of unlikely heroes caught in the invasion. Scrambling to create a refuge ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 2

Edited by Monique Mojica & Ric Knowles
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights

This second volume of Staging Coyote's Dream is an all-new anthology of First Nations drama in English that follows up on the success of the first volume. It brings together plays by some of the leading ...