Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: Mental Health, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Adaptations, Family Life, Biography, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Award Winners, Adaptations, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Ontario Playwrights
Duration: 90 minutes

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Introduction by Sharryn Aiken & R. Cheran
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Duecentomila

By kai fig taddei
Foreword by Paula Wing
Subjects: Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, By Age — 15–18, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 4 roles

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken ...

Is My Microphone On?

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

Lady Sunrise

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

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: Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Mental Health
Casting: 1 m

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 ...

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 ...

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, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus | 3 f, 5 m, doubling

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 ...