Queer Theatre in Canada

Edited by Rosalind Kerr
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: LGBT/Queer Theatre, Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:Sexuality and Identity in Fortune and Men's Eyes by Neil Carson (1972)Homo Creation: Towards a Poetics of Gay Male Theatre by Robert Wallace (1994)"That's Why I Go to the Gym": Sexual Identity ...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

Edited by Michael McKinnie
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:The Regionalism of Canadian Drama by Diane Bessai (1980) Playwrights in a Landscape: The Changing Image of Rural Ontario by Alexander M. Leggatt (1980)"A Country of the Soul": Herman Voaden, ...

Banana Boys

By Leon Aureus
Introduction by Terry Watada
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 5 m

A smart, contemporary, and wickedly funny play about five young Asian Canadian men wrestling with issues of race, identity, and the death of a friend. Banana Boys is one story, fragmented into five and ...

The December Man (L'homme de décembre)

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In the aftermath of the 1989 Montreal Massacre, Benoît and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son cope with his guilt and rage… but Jean's young life becomes unglued.

Using humour ...

The Blue Light

By Mieko Ouchi

Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni’s reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature ...

Jenny's House of Joy

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 5 f

Jenny runs the best little house of ill-repute in her corner of the old Wild West. When a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just have to leave their lingerie ...

Carole Fréchette: Two Plays

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Translations, Anthologies, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

John and Beatrice

High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then? ...

Bedtime Stories

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Comedy, Comedy
Casting: 5
Duration: 120 hours

A radio shock jock pays a couple to make love on the air. A woman visits a dying man she feels she hurt years ago. Two men rob a house and discover a shocking secret. An aging rock star is confronted ...

Danny, King of the Basement

By David S. Craig
Introduction by Walter Pitman
Preface by Richard Greenblatt
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 8–10, Family, Class Differences, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 70 hours

In two years, Danny and his mom have moved more often than most kids lose teeth...

When Danny moves into a new basement apartment, the kids he meets seem to have way more problems than just being hungry. ...

Love and Human Remains

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Horror
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

David McMillan is a former actor, current waiter on the verge of turning thirty. Together with his book-reviewing roommate, Candy, and his best friend, Bernie, David encounters a number of seductive strangers ...