Digital Performance in Canada

Edited by David Owen
Subjects:
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Family Life, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: Comedy, Musicals, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Long Live the New Flesh

Edited by David Owen
Subjects: Anthologies

In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. ...

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.

Jon, a star ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Class Differences, Adaptations
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

Through the Bamboo

By Andrea Mapili & Byron Abalos
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 8–10, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 7 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi.

In Uwi, ...

WROL (Without Rule of Law)

By Michaela Jeffery
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” ...

The Law of Gravity

By Olivier Sylvestre
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, LGBTQ, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 2 roles
Duration: 50 minutes

Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything.

Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But ...