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 ...

a million billion pieces

By David James Brock
By (composer) Gareth Williams
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Coming of Age, Death, Grief & Loss, Dating & Sex
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 70 minutes

It’s time to make every moment count.

Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have ...

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Foreword by Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 3 f, 5 m, doubling | 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus
Duration: 140 minutes

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Comedy, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Death, Grief & Loss, (Im)migration, Siblings, Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Afterword by ted witzel, Leora Morris, and Alison Wong
Subjects: Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 1 f, 4 m

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.

The story ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Anthologies, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Non, Feminist Theatre, Disability Theatre, Political Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Environmental Issues, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m (1 f adult, 1 m adult, 2 f kid, 2 m kid)

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...