Refractions: Scenes

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues, Indigenous Playwrights, Jewish Theatre, African and Caribbean Canadian Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies

This collection can be used both as a source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works. Refractions: Scenes includes work by Michaela di Cesare, ...

Theatre and (Im)migration

Edited by Yana Meerzon
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, (Im)migration
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to ...

Scripting (Im)migration

Edited by Yana Meerzon
Subjects: Anthologies, (Im)migration

In this companion anthology to Theatre and (Im)migration, plays by immigrant artists take a look at communication, historic moments, the immigrant and refugee experiences in Canada, accents, and more. ...

Marriage

By Rick Chafe
Subjects: Romance, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Comedy, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 135 minutes

You know, I think probably half the world’s fights started in kitchens.

What could help patch up a marriage better than a home renovation? Wayne thinks he’s doing his wife Julie a favour by hiring ...

The Bears Sleep at Last

By Geneviève Billette
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come.

The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do ...

Bang Bang

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Women Writers, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 3 m
Duration: 140 minutes

“I don’t need to know how it goes—you wanted it to be dramatic, and white cops shooting Black kids is so common that it’s BORING, and you didn’t want a boring play, right?”

Lila, a Black cop, ...

Other Side of the Game

By Amanda Parris
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, African and Caribbean Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

I don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step.

In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove ...

Body Politic

By Nick Green
Subjects: History, Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 5 m
Duration: 120 minutes

The point is that we started the conversation.

In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. ...

What a Young Wife Ought to Know

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Just don’t lie down and no child will come.

It’s Ottawa in the 1920s, pre-legalized birth control. Sophie, a young working-class girl, falls madly in love with and marries a stable-hand named Jonny. ...

Birds of a Kind

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Translations
Casting: 4 f, 5 m
Duration: 240 minutes

Is it really important to cling to our lost identities?

A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, an Moroccan graduate ...