'da Kink in my hair

By Trey Anthony
Foreword by Djanet Sears
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Canadian Classics
Casting: 12 f + musicians

Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, da Kink in my hair gives voice to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears—and told ...

Darrell Dennis: Two Plays

By Darrell Dennis
Introduction by Lee Maracle
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Anthologies
Casting: 1 m | 1 f, 2 m

Tales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young First Nations man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This ...

Half Life

By John Mighton
Subjects: Romance, Family Life, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 3 m, doubling

Two nursing home residents, both in their eighties, meet and fall in love, rekindling what might have been a wartime romance.

Had they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is ...

Aboriginal Drama and Theatre

Edited by Rob Appleford
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Nonfiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

Having Hope At Home

By David S. Craig
Introduction by Eric Coates
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Rural Settings, Comedy
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 100 minutes

On a winter night in a drafty farmhouse a baby is about to arrive. But modern medicine meets midwifery head on in a torrent of family feuding. As tensions rise between three dysfunctional generations, ...

African-Canadian Theatre

Edited by Maureen Moynagh
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Black Playwrights
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

Judith Thompson

Edited by Ric Knowles
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Biography, Women Writers, Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Volume 3 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English.

"This book publishes what I take to be a representative sampling—by no means complete—of critical writings about [Judith ...

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey
Subjects: History, Rural Settings, Comedy, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Mental Health
Casting: 3 m

A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Political Theatre, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 hours

Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living ...

Rune Arlidge

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

The award-winning author of The Drawer Boy and Plan B takes us on a twenty-five-year-long trip to the family cottage.

Three generations of women—the eldest incapable of keeping stories to herself, ...