Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Biography, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choinière
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Translations
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Foreword by Angus Ferguson
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

Is My Microphone On?

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Environmental Issues, Environment, Political Theatre

In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Romance, Ontario Playwrights, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

Welcome to the New Now, a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Foreword by Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 6 f
Duration: 105 minutes

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian ...

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down

By Robert Chafe
Foreword by Sarah Garton Stanley
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Solo Shows, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can’t shake the burning question of whether he’s Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of ...

Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Political Theatre, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure ...

Women of the Fur Trade

By Frances Koncan
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Award Winners, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, History
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort ...

Let's Run Away

By Daniel MacIvor
Foreword by Daniel Brooks
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m

Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t ...